BACKGROUND Nowadays, doping is an intricate dilemma. Football is the nationally popular sport in Iran. On the other hand, doping is a serious health hazard sport faces today. Studies dealing with athletes' knowledge, attitudes and behavior concerning doping in football are scarce. OBJECTIVES Therefore, we aimed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes toward doping among the football coache...

Water influences skin inflammation of the external auditory canal. The common term for this illness is "swimmer's ear". Contributory factors are length of exposure to water, type of water and water pollution. The aim of the study was to compare risks for contracting the disease between patients with different exposure to swimming pool water. A retrospective case-control analysis of patients at ...

BACKGROUND Long-term physical exercise leads to left ventricular morphological adaptations, which vary with the kind of sport and the intensity and extent of the training. Although the echocardiographic changes related to exercise in athletes participating in various sports have been well described, changes associated with football players have been less well documented. The aim of this study w...

This paper deals with the problem of tracking football players in a football match using data from a single moving camera. Tracking footballers from a single video source is di cult: not only do the football players occlude each other, but they frequently enter and leave the camera's eld of view, making initialisation and destruction of a player's tracking a di cult task. The system presented h...

approximately a decade ago, the fifa medical assessment and research centre (f-marc) developed an injury prevention program so-called “the 11” which was aimed to reduce injuries among male and female amateur football players aged 14 years and older. the “11” was designed on the basis of information and data which was available of research on injury and structured as warm-up program to reduce an...

Specific football drills improve the development of technical/tactical and physical variables in players. Based on this principle, in recent years it has been possible to observe in daily training a growing volume of small-sided and conditioned games. These games are smaller and modified forms of formal games that augment players' perception of specific tactics. Despite this approach, the asses...

T study’s purpose was to investigate how junior football players representing a professional club experienced stressors according to there given playing time. Participants (N43) represented 3 football clubs (mean 17.4 yrs). The results showed that the players playing all matches reported a lower level of stress related to performance and future stress compared to the players playing few matches...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between recorded head accelerations and impact locations and acute clinical outcome of symptomatology, neuropsychological, and postural stability tests after cerebral concussion in Division I collegiate football players. METHODS A prospective field study was used in which accelerometers were embedded in the football helmets of 88 collegiate football pla...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between P wave dispersion, aortic elastic properties and transthoracic echocardiographic findings in the young and old football players compared to control groups in order to asses the influence of regular sportive activity on aortic distensibility and its potential effect on atrial electrophysiology. METHODS We recruited ...