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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Sport injuries"”.
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Psychological rehabilitation from sport injury: issues in training and development of chartered physiotherapists
… psychological rehabilitation to athletes during sport injury, very little research exists outside North America, Australia, and New Zealand (e.g., Hemmings & Povey, 2002). Thus, the main purpose of this research was to explore the role of UK chartered physiotherapists in the process of …
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Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context
… death of a family member, life long illness, and sport injuries. Two over arching themes of effective and ineffective ways to break bad news were present in the data; the sub-categories of express caring and being direct were shown as effective ways to break bad news to college age students and …
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Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context
… death of a family member, life long illness, and sport injuries. Two over arching themes of effective and ineffective ways to break bad news were present in the data; the sub-categories of express caring and being direct were shown as effective ways to break bad news to college age students and …
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Rowing Biomechanics: Technique Changes with an Increase of Power Demand
The sport of rowing has become more popular in the past decade. While it is a relatively low impact sport, injuries can occur, specifically to the ribs (Karlson K. A., 1998) and more often in female athletes (Hickey, Fricker, & McDonald , 1997). It has been proposed that as the athlete rows, …
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Effectiveness of a Shoulder Strengthening Intervention on the Incidence Rate of Glenohumeral Joint Instability Injuries
<p><strong>Context:</strong> Shoulder injuries are frequently sustained in American football due to the contact and collision aspect of the sport. Injuries to the shoulder account for about 10% to 20% of all musculoskeletal injuries that occur in football and the shoulder is the fourth most …
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Relaxation and Guided Imagery in the Sport Rehabilitation Context: A Qualitative and Quantitative Design
<p>Sport injuries have been predicted to occur at a rate of 17 million per year, and 8 of 10 athletes become injured during high school and college (Robbins & Rosenfeld, 2001). Injured athletes may experience tension, loneliness, fear, shock/disbelief, and uncertainty of the future (Evan & Hardy, …
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Injury and illness risk factors for elite athletes in training environment
Since 1998, elite athletes’ sport injuries have been monitored in single sport event, which leads to the development of first comprehensive injury surveillance system in multi-sport Olympic Games in 2008. However, injury and illness occurred in training phases have not been systematically studied …
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Localized deformation in soft solids around spherical cavities
… at a range of rates, resulting in damage. Sport injuries, car crashes, traumatic brain injury, and ballistic impacts can produce strain rates from 10−10^5 1/s. The parameters governing failure in these soft solids (moduli < 1 MPa) are challenging to quantify, requiring modifications or …
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Gladiator Gear: The unintended consequences of protective equipment in gridiron football compared to rugby union
Sports equipment has evolved over time to both enhance performance and reduce the injury risk. Protective equipment is particularly important in contact sports where injuries are frequent. In American and Canadian football, helmets and shoulder pads are two pieces of protective equipment that are …
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An Examination of Psychological Variables Affecting Injured Athletes Prior to Returning to Play
<p>Injury occurs in a variety of different sports and affects athletes in a number of different ways. Following injury, athletic identity is often lost, bringing upon feelings of anger and depression (Brewer, 1993; Fortunato & Marchant, 1999). As athletes begin to re-enter sports, lower levels of …
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Incidence of injuries and associated factors at the senior inter provincial field hockey tournament
Background Field Hockey is an Olympic sport that is played widely across the world at various levels. In South Africa, it is a growing sport with increasing participation for both males and females. It is a high-speed team sport, consisting of short bursts of sprinting with technical coordination …
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Injury surveillance in community cricket and the exploration of insurance claims systems
… against industry standards of the Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary (ASIDD) and cricket injury consensus statements (consensus). Existing literature using insurance claims data to report sports injury indicated high levels of validity and completeness were possible. Review across all …