BACKGROUND Both acute and overuse injuries are common among recreational volleyball players, especially finger/wrist, ankle, shoulder and knee injuries. Consequently, an intervention ('VolleyVeilig') was developed to prevent or reduce the occurrence of finger/wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle injuries among recreational volleyball players. This article describes the design of a study evaluating t...

After the 2003-2004 hockey season, the players’ union and NHL team owners failed to reach common ground on a new collective bargaining agreement resulting in the cancellation of the 2004-2005 hockey season. The cancellation brought fear among team franchises that a yearlong lockout would cause a decline in ticket sales, television ratings, and merchandising. During this time, the popularity of ...

Physical preparation of female volleyball players plays a big part in achieving maximum goals both personal and team. Successful selection means methods the preparatory period general stage significant role proper physical preparation. The goal research was to determine state development motor skills that are special qualified players. Material methods. Using generalizations, systematization, a...

The aim of this paper was to investigate the anthropometric and strength characteristics of elite male volleyball athletes and determines if differences exist in these characteristics between starters (S) and non-starters players (NS). A group of 22 professional male team volleyball players participated in the study and the players were categorized as S (n= 13) and NS (n= 9). Anthropometric cha...

Since the scheduling of sports leagues involves many kinds of constraints and the minimization of costs or travel distances, sports scheduling has become a very active field, providing both interesting and challenging problems to the combinatorial optimization community. In this work we describe the automatic scheduling of the regular phase of the Argentine first division volleyball league and ...

BACKGROUND Adequate nutrient intake is important to support training and to optimise performance of elite athletes. Nutritional knowledge has been shown to play an important role in adopting optimal nutrition practices. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the level of nutritional knowledge and dietary habits in elite English rugby league players using the ea...

BACKGROUND A recent study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine showed that asymptomatic soccer players with an increased risk of developing Achilles and patellar tendon injuries within the next 12 months can be identified with use of ultrasonography. HYPOTHESIS Prophylactic eccentric training and stretching can reduce both the frequency of asymptomatic ultrasonographic changes...