OBJECTIVE Wrestling is a popular sport in the United States at both the high school and collegiate levels. Traditionally a men's sport, participation by female athletes in wrestling is increasing. There exists a paucity of literature regarding injury incidence in women's wrestling. This lack of information challenges the ability of sports medicine and strength training professionals to design o...

From the perspective of swimmer safety, there have been no quantitative 3-dimensional studies of the underwater phase of racing starts during competition. To do so, 471 starts were filmed during a meet with a starting depth of 1.22 m and block height of 0.76 m. Starts were stratified according to age (8 & U, 9–10, 11–12, 13–14, and 15 & O) and stroke during the first lap (freestyle, breaststrok...

With a significant number of studies and methodological works on the technique tactics wrestling, it should be noted that one problems in theory practice wrestling remains lack developed teaching at initial stages training, issues improving content sequence studying basic increasing success this basis.

INTRODUCTION: The concept of freestyle propeller flaps provides a versatile opportunity for wound closure at any part of the body with minimal donor site morbidity. As experience and familiarity with microsurgical procedures has increased interest in identifying-harvesting perforator flaps originating from known major vessels has become more common. The “freestyle” concept developed by Wei and ...

SCRIPT-INDEPENDENT TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION IN FREESTYLE HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS LI Yi, Yefeng Zheng, David Doermann, and Stefan Jaeger Language and Media Processing Laboratory Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3275 {liyi,doermann,jaeger}@umiacs.umd.edu and Siemens Corporate Research 755 College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540 yefeng.zheng@siemens...

BACKGROUND Limited knowledge exists on injuries among professional freestyle skiers. OBJECTIVE To describe the risk of injury and injury patterns among competitive World Cup (WC) freestyle skiers during the competitive season. METHODS Retrospective interviews were conducted with WC freestyle skiers from 20 nations in a cohort study at the end of the 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 winter...

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY The study aim was to compare the crosslink stability and calcification behavior of porcine tissue (cusp and wall), treated with a new antimineralization process (ADAPT) with that of commercially prepared Freestyle and Prima Plus bioprosthetic tissues. METHODS Porcine aortic roots were divided into two groups: (i) tissue zero pressure-fixed with 0.625% glutarald...

[Purpose] This study aimed to compare basic physical fitness, aerobic capacity, and isokinetic strength between international and national level freestyle high school student swimmers. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 28 participants (14 international level swimmers and 14 national level freestyle high school student swimmers) with no known pathology were included. We used a cross-sectional st...

There is little information available on injuries to World Cup skiers and snowboarders. The aim of this study was to describe and compare the injury risk to World Cup athletes in alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, Nordic combined and cross country skiing. We performed retrospective interviews with the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup athletes from selected n...