traumatic injuries are leading causes of spinal cord damage. the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether wrestling induced cervical spondylosis amongst professional wrestlers or not. to test this assumption, two groups of athletes, 72 wrestlers versus 76 non-wrestlers 15-55 years of age were studied. radiographic findings and clinical assessment were compared in both groups. significant d...

PURPOSE Recently, much media attention has been given to the premature deaths in professional wrestlers. Since no formal studies exist that have statistically examined the probability of premature mortality in professional wrestlers, we determined survival estimates for active wresters over the past quarter century to establish the factors contributing to the premature mortality of these indivi...

Sumo wrestling, Japan's national sport, have a long history over 300 years in Japan. Sumo is becoming wellknown all over the world as one of Japanese culture (Nagayama, 2008). As you know, professional Sumo wrestlers are expected to lead specific lifestyles that promote increases in body weight after go professional. This notion makes Sumo wrestlers a unique group of professional athletes unlik...

Aim: To investigate the prevalence of snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness and other sleep symptoms in a group of professional wrestlers and to identify the risk factors of snoring in these subjects. Methods: A questionnaire was administered to 55 professional wrestlers and 44 age matched men. All subjects answered nine questions about their sleep and snoring habits and self-graded on a scale ...

The clinical characteristics of head trauma were evaluated in 18 wrestlers belonging to a female professional wrestling organization, 13 regular members and five trainees aged 15-34 years. Medical examinations for head trauma were performed in all wrestlers, and wrestlers treated at our emergency outpatient department were clinically evaluated. In addition, the relationships of head trauma with...

abstract introduction: researchers make an effort to the assessment of injuries prevalence in different sports, to the find the cause of this injury and eventually to provide the appropriate prevention strategies. but yet have observed a lot of injures and remained unclear patterns of sport injury in athletes of different sports disciplines. this study has compared the incidence, type and sever...

The geographical distribution of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) variants BgK(L) and BgO(L) and the high relative frequency (RF) of BgK(L) in orolabial lesions has led to a dispersion-replacement hypothesis for these variants. The pathogenic properties of HSV-1 variants in mice and professional sumo wrestlers were examined here. The wrestlers ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to assess the validity of a mini-open tenodesis of the long head of the biceps tendon (LHBT) performed on 5 professional wrestlers injured while fighting. METHODS Five professional wrestlers with an acute rupture of the LHBT were treated with a mini-open tenodesis procedure without arthroscopic assistance. This technique is performed with 2 miniscule incisi...

nowadays, doping is an intricate dilemma for athletes. wrestling is the domestic, national and popular sport in iran. meanwhile, the prevalence of drug abuse in wrestling is high due to its power-demanding nature. so, we decided to evaluate the knowledge of club wrestlers of tehran about doping and their estimates of current prevalence in the country. in a cross sectional study, 426 wrestlers w...