PURPOSE This case study evaluated the effect of repeated lateral movement and jumping training on repeated effort ability in a group of national team male volleyball players. METHODS Twelve volleyball players were assessed on their volleyball-specific repeated movement and jumping abilities using a volleyball-specific repeated effort test (RET) before and after 12 weeks of training. The athle...

BACKGROUND Although differences in mechanical properties between symptomatic and healthy tendons have been observed for the Achilles tendon, the impact of tendinopathy on patellar tendon mechanics is not fully documented. The aim of the present case-control study was to assess the mechanical properties of the tendon and jump performance in elite athletes with and without patellar tendinopathy. ...

BACKGROUND Very little is known about the injury characteristics of beach volleyball. PURPOSE To describe the incidence and pattern of injuries among professional male and female beach volleyball players. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study--retrospective injury recall and prospective registration. METHODS Injuries occurring over a 7.5-week interval of the summer season were retrospectively registe...

The aim of the study was to identify morphological structures of young female volleyball players according to age, and to assess the impact of these morphological structures on technical and situation efficacy. A set of 13 morphological measures as predictor variables, a set of 6 technique elements, and assessment of performance quality as criterion variables were employed in a sample of 246 fe...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to estimate the dominant handgrip strength and its correlations with some hand and arm anthropometric variables in 101 randomly selected Indian inter-university female volleyball players aged 18-25 years (mean age 20.52±1.40) from six Indian universities. METHODS Three anthropometric variables, i.e. height, weight, BMI, two hand anthropometric variables, ...

The purpose of this study was to report the current state of Korean medicine (KM) treatment on sports injury by implementing survey with volleyball team medical doctors participating in 2013-2014 season. Six KM doctors completed a questionnaire that includes injury parameters: type, location, situation, and pain scores. We collected 166 injury cases from 94 Korean male and female national volle...

Manna I, Lal-Khanna GL, Chandra-Dhara PC. Effect of training on anthropometric, physiological and biochemical variables of U-19 volleyball players. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 263-274, 2012. The effect of training on anthropometric, physiological and biochemical variables of U-19 volleyball players was aimed in the present study. A total of 30 Indian under 19 years (U-19) male volle...

Objective: to identify the relationship between VO2Max and risk of injury among volleyball playersMethods: this study used a cross-sectional on 26 male amateur players method with aged 15 – 18 years. was recorded by cooper test measured Functional Movement Screen (FMS) Test.Results: result obtained that there is injuries (p = 0.001). A negative correlation (r -0.723). Conclusion: The concluded ...