The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between motivational characteristics and dispositional flow. In order to accomplish this goal, motivational profiles emerging from key constructs within Achievement Goal Theory and Self-Determination Theory were related to the dispositional flow measures. A sample of 413 young athletes (Age range 12 to 16 years) completed the PMCSQ-2, POSQ, ...

Muscle motor unit numbers decrease markedly in old age, while remaining motor units are enlarged and can have reduced neuromuscular junction transmission stability. However, it is possible that regular intense physical activity throughout life can attenuate this remodeling. The aim of this study was to compare the number, size, and neuromuscular junction transmission stability of tibialis anter...

Children involved in sports should be encouraged to participate in a variety of different activities and develop a wide range of skills. Young athletes who specialize in just one sport may be denied the benefits of varied activity while facing additional physical, physiologic, and psychologic demands from intense training and competition. This statement reviews the potential risks of high-inten...

patients and methods forty five young female volunteer athletes were included and received different training regimens (endurance-training, strength training and concurrent groups) for a 10 week period as study intervention. standard color doppler echocardiography was performed for assessment of the left ventricular activity. results as a result, 45 athletes ended the study training regimens. m...

ith great interest we read the review by Corrado et al. (1) on re-participation screening (PPS) of young competitive athletes to revent sudden cardiac death (SCD). It is important that Corrado et al. (1) briefly mentioned the ossibility of cascade screening of relatives of a competitive athlete ith an inherited heart disease. Unfortunately, this topic is requently neglected in articles on PPS. ...

Athletes are physically the most effi cient members of our society with a unique lifestyle who are seemingly invulnerable and their unexpected death during training or competition draws high public attention. The most frequent cause of death in young athletes is the sudden cardiac death (SCD). The sudden cardiac death is defi ned as an event that is unexpected, and resulting from sudden cardiac...

PURPOSE Athlete's report of concussion symptoms to coaching or medical personnel is an important component of concussion risk reduction. This study applies a model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to the prediction of concussive symptom underreporting among late adolescent and young adult male ice hockey players. METHODS Participants were members of an American Tier III Junior A ...