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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Professional Athletes"”.
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The Impact of Forced Retirement on Professional Athletes
The Impact of forced retirement on professional athletes is prevalent throughout all professional sports. This review explores the key factors associated with involuntary retirement from sport, the impact it has on professional athlete’s wellbeing, and the process of preparing for retirement as a …
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No longer a myth: A study of the happy and healthy marriages of African American male professional athletes
The marriages of professional athletes have been examined for years, but the positive factors in those marriages have rarely been examined. This study focuses on the factors that contribute to the strength and happiness in the marriages of professional athletes. Five professional athletes and their …
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Unfiltered?: A Content Analysis of Pro Athletes' "Twitter" Use.
… been changed drastically because of new media. Athletes no longer communicate with the general public solely through traditional media outlets such as newspapers. Social networking sites such as <em>Twitter</em>allow athletes to directly communicate with mass audiences. This direct communication …
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Effects of dehydration, hyperthermia, cognition aspects and fatigue balance on sport performance
… and fatigue on cognitive performances in semi-professional athletes. Eighteen healthy, active male athletes from individual and team sports who met the following criteria were chosen to participate in the study: age (25 ± 5) years, weight (69.3±6.6) kg; height (172.5±7.8) cm, BMI (23.2±0.9) …
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High School Student Concussion Recovery Program: Teacher Involvement in Student Academic Transitions to Classroom and to Sports
… Much research is available on concussions for professional athletes, specifically related to recovery and returning to their sport. However, there is little research about high school students regarding concussions. Concussion recovery programs for high school student athletes primarily …
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Black Male Student-Athletes as NCAA Commodities
… lucrative amounts of money from its student-athletes. Black male student-athletes have helped to generate the most revenue for Universities by excelling in basketball and football. The NCAA treats black student-athletes as commodities. The athletic abilities of these young men excite fans and …
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The Management of acute lateral ankle sprains: A survey of South African Surgeons and best evidence available
… acute surgical repair especially with regards to professional athletes. Design: Descriptive cross-sectional survey analysis Aim of the study: To assess the approach on management of acute ankle sprains by orthopaedic surgeons in South Africa. Methods: A two part study. Firstly, a questionnaire was …
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The Anatomical Basis of Groin Pain in Athletes
… initially began in 1995. It reflects a major professional interest in the imaging of sports injuries which developed gradually over the 10 year period between 1992 to 2001, based upon previous clinical experience and expertise in the management of musculoskeletal injuries and their anatomical …
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You Can’t Have Black Power without Green Power:The Black Economic Union
… the 1966. The BEU was a body of African American professional athletes who had three objectives: to use the finances of African Americans collectively for the benefit of all, to assemble loans with special attention to the interest rates for Blacks in business and industry, and to establish …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
… framing to compare cases that involve indicted athletes of various ages and races, this study analyzes content of how newspapers framed athletes amid allegations that they committed violent crimes. This can be accomplished by analyzing media coverage from a common national newspaper and through …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Canadian University Students' and Student-Athletes' Mental Health
Student-athletes have shown to display poorer mental health than student non-athletes, typically due to the unique stressors of participating in collegiate sport. During the COVID-19 pandemic and with the implementation of public health response measures Şenışık et al. (2020) discovered that …
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"It's not for fun anymore": perfomance of masculinity as a source of stress among professional soccer players in South Africa
… to determine the stressors that South African professional soccer players face, with a focus on how masculinity shapes their experience of stress. The study examined how the pursuit of hegemonic masculinity is played out amongst elite South African soccer players and how this influences the …
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Babes, Balls, and Babies: A Working Ethnography of Motherhood
"Women's professional athletics in America---part business venture, part self-help group, part sociological movement---has become an intriguing site for exploring the relationship of women to the global socio-cultural matrix. In American women's sports, particularly team sports, women's bodies and …
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Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Professional Female Athletes
… “Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Female Athletes,” I interrogate how female athletes are represented in the media, trace the dominant cultural images and discourses associated with these representations, illustrate how female athletes use venues such as ESPN The Magazine as a vehicle to …
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(in)Equality.
… by using public figures of color and LGBTQIA+ professional athletes. From the perspective of a transnational artist, this exhibition retranslates and parodies advertisements and media by Nike’s promotional campaign. (in)Equality is about repetition: utilizing and borrowing the corporate media …
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Validation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale With a Hong Kong Sample
… to the athlete role that is maintained by the athletes and influenced by environment” (p. 39; Cieslak, 2005). Previous studies have shown that athletic identity is related to various psychological processes such as identity foreclosure and the emotional reactions of athletes to injuries (Grove, …
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An investigation of training transfer from strength and conditioning to athletic performance using large-scale evidence synthesis and real-world data.
… influence physical performance adaptations in athletes. This first aim was achieved through conducting the largest synthesis of longitudinal S&C research, including data from 643 studies (Chapter 3). The results defined novel context-specific effect size (ES) thresholds for S&C outcomes of …
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An investigation into mild traumatic brain injury identification, management, and mitigation
… incidences of concussion across amateur and professional sport such as popular contact sports like rugby union. A primary aim of this thesis was to establish the current modalities of ‘pitch side’ concussion management, identification, and diagnosis across amateur and professional sporting …
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Attitudes of Key Stakeholders Towards the Icelandic High-Performance Center, with a Focus on Sport Psychology
Markmið þessarar rannsóknar var að kanna viðhorf lykilhagsmunaaðila til íslenskrar afreksmiðstöðvar með sérstaka áherslu á teymisvinnu, stoðþjónustu og íþróttasálfræði. Rannsóknin skoðaði einnig hvernig afreksíþróttafólk, þjálfarar, fulltrúar sérsambanda og meistaranemar í íþróttavísindum mátu …
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Development and validation of ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methods for screening of selective androgen receptor modulators in urine and blood
… to be the drug class most abused amongst athletes, and despite the fact that adverse effects from pseudo-endogenous and synthetic AAS misuse are well known, the potential for irreversible effects on human health to be induced by AAS is still not sufficient to eliminate their abuse. Even as …
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