ix Historically, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been a recognized world leader in rehabilitation , appreciating the value of rehabilitation and its far-reaching effects. In a field where efficacy of treatment may prove difficult to measure [1], VA's rehabilitation programs demonstrate that even a slight improvement in a person's quality of life is a real, if not always tangible, re...

OBJECTIVE To describe the trends in recreational sports injury in Perth, Western Australia. DESIGN A prospective cohort study of sports injuries during the 1997 winter season (May to September). SETTING Sample of Australian football, field hockey, basketball, and netball players from the Perth metropolitan area, Western Australia. METHODS A cohort of sports participants was followed over ...

BACKGROUND Due to the potential negative impact of low Vitamin D status on performance-related factors and the higher risk of low Vitamin D status in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) population, research is warranted to determine whether elite athletes with SCI have sufficient 25(OH)D levels. The purposes of this study were to examine: (1) the seasonal proportion of vitamin D insufficiency among elite ...

Grenoble taxpayers were not very happy to pay local taxes up to 1992 for covering the financial deficit from the 1968 Winter Games! The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal outperformed Grenoble Winter Olympics in terms of deficit: the latter was so deep that Montreal taxpayers had been repaying the debt until 2006, for thirty years. After Montreal's financial mess, the number of candidate cities w...

1626 Sports are “hot.” The average cost of a 30-second advertisement at the 2014 Super Bowl was $4 000 000, and millions of fans worldwide spent much of their February 2014 watching the Sochi Winter Olympics and its advertising. Sports cardiology is also hot. The American College of Cardiology in 2011 established a section dedicated to sports and exercise cardiology, and now there are several s...

The aim of the study was to examine the possible relationship between I/D polymorphism of ACE gene and selected indices of aerobic capacity among male and female athletes practising winter endurance sports. Sixty-six well-trained athletes (female n = 26, male n = 40), aged 18.4 ± 2.8 years, representing winter endurance sports (cross-country skiing, n = 48; biathlon, n = 8; Nordic combined, n =...

EDITORIAL article Front. Sports Act. Living, 09 March 2021Sec. Science, Technology and Engineering https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.628574