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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Sports injury"”.
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Stress, attention and sports injury
… Andersen and Williams (1988) model of stress and injury. Three studies were carried out. The first study examined the relationship between life stress and athletic injury. The sample consisted of 320 (234 males, 86 females) competitive contact team sport athletes in Melbourne clubs, who completed …
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The psychology of anterior cruciate ligament injury rehabilitation amongst professional rugby union players
… the introduction:]Within professional contact sports, injury has been reported frequently by athletes as causing stress (Anshel, 2001; Noblet & Gifford, 2002). Particularly within rugby union where injury has been reported as one of the top four stressors experienced by elite adolescent players …
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Das Risiko von Verletzungen und Überlastungsschäden beim Eisklettern
… to be a hazardous sport with a high risk of injury. To date, there has been no scientific analysis to characterize and reveal the prevalence of injury in this sport. The purpose of this study was to quantify and rate ice climbing injuries. 88 ice climbers from nine countries completed a …
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The general public's knowledge and perceptions of the certified athletic trainer's professional role and educational background
… other healthcare professionals when seeking sports injury care advice. For those with direct experience with an ATC, performance effectiveness ratings within each of the athletic training domains was generally favorable.</p>
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The point prevalence of injuries in retired competitive female gymnasts
… Information was also attained as to whether the injury was originally caused by a gymnastic-related injury and whether the injury was having an effect on the gymnasts' current lifestyle. The total sample reported 53 current injuries or complaints, a rate of approximately 2 injuries per retired …
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Examining Collegiate Athletes’ Psychological Resilience to Their Rehabilitation Beliefs, Effectiveness and Adherence Processes
Injury is a commonly experienced competitive stressor collegiate athletes encounter in their athletic careers. many athletes are able to overcome their injury by following a rehabilitation program prescribed to them by either their athletic trainer, doctor, or physical therapist, but the …
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Injury surveillance in community cricket and the exploration of insurance claims systems
… funded PhD thesis were 1) To understand the injury causes, trends and burden in community cricket and 2) To examine the Cricket Australia National Club Risk Protection Program (NCRPP) insurance scheme for suitability as an injury surveillance tool for community cricket. This thesis sought to …
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Methods for imbalanced data in sports analytics: improving injury prediction models
With the unprecedented growth of sports streaming and the increasing use of machine learning insports analytics, a more in-depth understanding of real-world datasets has become essential, along with methods that can handle noisy data that degrade predictive accuracy. Sports injuries are a central …
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COORDINATION VARIABILITY AND INJURY RISK IN EXPERIENCED COLLEGIATE DANCERS
… it has not yet been linked to dance-related injury, coordination variability (CV) is a measure of how much movement strategy changes between repetitions of a task and low levels of CV have been linked to injury in other sports. This study aimed to determine the relationship between CV and …
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Evaluation of Football Safety Techniques Utilizing Biomechanical Measurements
In recent years, concussions and the effect this injury has on the human brain has been an area of concern for many people involved in sports. And perhaps rightfully so, as between 1.6 and 3.8 million people each year sustain a sports-related concussion in the United States. In the past, …
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An analysis of lawsuits based on student injuries in public school physical education and athletic programs in the United States from 1980 to 1984
… reported. The analysis of cases revealed that 21 sports-injury lawsuits in physical education and 24 in athletic programs occurred during this time period. Twenty-one lawsuits involving playground or other injuries were also examined for related information. Each case was classified and discussed …
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The Effect of Injury Prevention Training Programs on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Team Sport Athletes
… used the keywords "anterior cruciate ligament," "injury," and "prevention" to conduct a search of Medline and the Cochrane library. A secondary search was conducted on article references lists. Study Selection: Criteria for inclusion required that studies: 1) evaluate a neuromuscular training …
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The Effects of Massage on Mood State, Range of Motion, Sports Performance, and Perceived Performance
Introduction: Sports massage is commonly used to treat pain, soreness, and stiffness related to sports injury and training, as well as for injury prevention. Believed to increase blood flow, decrease swelling, reduce muscle tension, and increase a sense of well-being, massage is a widely used …
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The Effects of Massage on Mood State, Range of Motion, Sports Performance, and Perceived Performance
Introduction: Sports massage is commonly used to treat pain, soreness, and stiffness related to sports injury and training, as well as for injury prevention. Believed to increase blood flow, decrease swelling, reduce muscle tension, and increase a sense of well-being, massage is a widely used …
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Development and Characterization of Tunable, Bioinspired Electrospun Constructs for Skeletal Muscle Engineering
… muscle loss, as a result of high intensity sports injury, trauma or tumor ablation, affects more than 250,000 civilians each year in the U.S. alone and accounts for more than 50% of all DoD disabilities. These injuries often leave patients with permanent structural and functional deficits in …
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Evaluation of injury surveillance data collected during major multisport games: Informing a standardized prospective injury surveillance system for the Canada Games
This thesis includes two projects focused on the injury surveillance system used by the Canada Games (CG). The first, examined the interrater reliability of coding of injury information collected using the injury surveillance system employed at the CG. The injury report form data from the 2017 and …
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An analysis and comparison of court holdings dealing with tort liability for injuries sustained in public school and higher education programs of physical education, athletics and intramural sports from 1977-1987
… programs, athletic programs and intramural sports programs are a vital part of the American educational system. However, since the mid-sixties, there has been an increase in sports injury litigation against the teachers and coaches who direct and supervise these programs. The purpose of this …
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A descriptive study of the prevalence of Acute Foot and Ankle complaints/injuries of adults attending a public sector secondary hospital orthopaedic clinic in South Africa over a 12-week period
… well as the associated risk factors and types of injury, we aimed to describe and evaluate the patient population presenting at a public health hospital over a specified time period. Insights into the epidemiology specific to the South African context may aid health care resource planning and …
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The development of a novel system to assess the effect of sudden foot and ankle inversion/supination on the musculoskeletal system
Ankle sprains are one of the most common type of sports injury. They occur most frequently when the foot is in a supine or inverted position. Recovery from an ankle sprain can take from one and up to 26 weeks depending on the severity of the injury. During that period the individual will be unable …
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