Objective: The purpose of the study was to investigate sports injury history that occurred during competition and training, anxiety in elite wrestlers. Material Methods: This conducted a total 172 who young wrestlers including 72 females (age: 19±0.85 years; height: 167.83±4.18 cm; body mass: 67±9.58 kg) 100 males 19±0.83 176.92±7.91 73±13.32 kg). Ethics committee approval obtained before study...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of feedback on the freestyle swimming learning and performance of novice swimmers. Sixty male (Mage=18.7, SD=1.82) first year students were randomly assigned into four groups: self-modeling, expert-modeling, verbal, and control group. The intervention program lasted for seven weeks. Participants were evaluated in 25m freestyle swim...

The authors present the case of a body-builder who sustained a spiral fracture of the humerus during arm wrestling (Indian wrestling). The cause of the fracture and the underlying mechanism are discussed and it is concluded that it appears appropriate to warn body-builders and weight-lifters against arm wrestling.

Arm wrestling is a popular activity enjoyed by men and women of all ages. Although uncommon, several cases of arm wrestling injuries have been reported in the medical literature. Fractures of the humerus sustained during arm wrestling are rare clinical entities that can be confused with pathologic fractures. A butterfly fragment subtype of comminuted humeral fracture is an even more exceptional...

INTRODUCTION The objective was to report epidemiological and lesional features among children practicing wrestling as a game in Dakar, Senegal. METHODS It was a retrospective study including all patients under 16, victims of wrestling game injuries. We studied epidemiological and lesional aspects in children: frequency of wrestling game injuries among all games, age, sex, geographic origin, p...

Background and aim: Intense training competition lead to fatigue muscular imbalance in wrestlers that cause postural abnormalities. Thus, it is important identify these changes the related mechanisms prevent musculoskeletal sports injuries among wrestlers. The present study a comprehensive review of literature on freestyle Greco-Roman Materials Methods: This paper offers thorough It encompasses...

Freestyle swimming performance over 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m was compared on short (25 m) and long (50 m) course for 92,196 national swimmers (i.e. annual high score list Switzerland) and 1,104 international swimmers (i.e. finalists FINA World Championships) from 2000 to 2012. National and international swimmers of both sexes were on average 2.0 ± 0.6% faster on short than o...

The article analyzes the performance of participants and winners in men's women's freestyle wrestling at XXXII Olympic Games Tokyo after training camp highlands during 2nd final stage preparation for these competitions, which took place Ivano-Frankivsk region . educational sports base "Zaroslyak" taking into account age qualifications athletes. is located an altitude 1330 m above sea level. Tok...

BACKGROUND Calcification is an important limitation after aortic root replacement. The aims were to compare the long-term degree and rate of calcification of homografts versus Medtronic freestyle aortic roots to determine the functional consequences and predictive factors. METHODS AND RESULTS One hundred sixty-six patients were prospectively randomized to undergo homograft versus freestyle to...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of tinea gladiatorum among young wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination of wrestling mats from Sari city, the capital of Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. DESIGN 324 wrestlers (aged 9-20 years) from 7 active clubs in Sari city were examined, and skin scrapings were obtained from 135 wrestlers suspected of having tinea gladiatorum. The scraped skin sa...