Copyright 2007 Q-FIT Latest Sports Medicine / Fitness News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/sports_medicine/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com admin@medicalnewstoday.com en-us Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65564&nfid=crss Injuries are common among soccer players, but many of these injuries can be avoided, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Linköping University in Sweden. A collaborative project between the European Football Association (UEFA) and Linköping University has studied the risk of injury for elite soccer players in Sweden and Denmark in a series of investigations between 2001 and 2005. [click link for full article] Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65229&nfid=crss A 12-point screening process could help reduce sudden cardiac death in high school and college competitive athletes, according to an updated American Heart Association scientific statement. [click link for full article] Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65338&nfid=crss Young athletes could see their sports dreams evaporate if they don't seek prompt treatment and allow full rehabilitation of foot and ankle injuries. That warning comes today from sports medicine experts meeting in Orlando for the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) Annual Scientific Conference. [click link for full article] Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65178&nfid=crss Research has shown that people who exercise do better on memory tests. Now a new Columbia University Medical Center study explains specifically what exercise does within the brain. Exercise, the researchers found, targets a region of the brain within the hippocampus, known as the dentate gyrus, which underlies normal age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most adults. [click link for full article] Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64778&nfid=crss Female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer knee injuries during their careers than males, and now researchers may be closer to understanding why. [click link for full article] Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=65083&nfid=crss Bone-loading exercise and a balanced diet are essential for preventing osteoporosis. To take care of your bones now so they stay strong enough to carry you through a lifetime of health and activity, the American Council on Exercise (ACE), America's Authority on Fitness, offers three exercises to add to your training regimen to start building stronger bones today. Squat: Hold light-weight dumbbells in each hand with arms straight and hanging down alongside the body. [click link for full article] Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64616&nfid=crss Scientists in Germany are reporting development of a urine test that finally can identify athletes who misuse certain kinds of insulin in an illicit attempt to enhance performance.Mario Thevis and colleagues say that amateur and elite athletes reportedly have used long-acting, as well as rapid-acting, forms of insulin to gain an edge - although insulin doping's actual ability to enhance performance remains uncertain. [click link for full article] Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64977&nfid=crss Aerobic exercise is widely recognized to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, but until now, researchers have not fully understood the biological mechanisms behind the effect of exercise on cardiovascular health. Findings of a new study show how exercise decreases inflammation, which reduces the risk of atherosclerosis fatty build-ups in the arteries that cause most cases of heart disease. In a study led by Richard P. Sloan, Ph.D. [click link for full article] Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64877&nfid=crss Steroid use starts early, decreases as teens grow olderParticipation in sports with real or perceived weight requirements, such as ballet, gymnastics, and wrestling, is strongly associated with unhealthy weight control behaviors and steroid use in teens, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota. [click link for full article] Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64873&nfid=crss Boys and girls who played basketball for coaches trained to emphasize personal improvement, giving maximum effort, having fun and supporting their teammates reported lower levels of sport anxiety compared with athletes playing for untrained coaches. Further, athletes playing for trained coaches showed positive changes in their personal achievement goals, according to a pair of companion studies by University of Washington sport psychologists. [click link for full article] Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64577&nfid=crss Body mass index, or BMI, long considered the standard for measuring the amount of fat in a person's body, may not be as accurate as originally thought, according to new research.A research team from Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University measured the BMI of more than 400 college students - some of whom were athletes and some not - and found that in most cases the student's BMI did not accurately reflect his or her percentage of body fat. [click link for full article] Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64803&nfid=crss The University of Portsmouth has opened a new high-tech sports science centre that will be used to prepare elite athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. The multimillion pound research and teaching facility - The Spinnaker Building - houses several world class laboratories including two high specification climatic chambers (hot and cold), an immersion facility, a biomechanics laboratory and a state-of-the-art swimming flume. [click link for full article] Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=64076&nfid=crss Even though many schools fall short when it comes to offering daily physical education and balanced meals, children are more likely to pack on pounds during summer break than during the school year. A study based on twice-yearly body mass index (BMI) measurements from 5,380 children in 310 schools found that BMI gains were faster and more variable during summer vacation than during the kindergarten and first grade school years. [click link for full article] Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63963&nfid=crss A new study investigating the potential of a circadian rhythm in athletic performance adds further confirmation that it exists. The finding is being published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, one of 11 peer reviewed scientific publications issued monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS) (http://www.The-APS.org). The authors of "Circadian Variation in Swim Performance," are Christopher E. Kline, J. [click link for full article] Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63236&nfid=crss Six or more hours per week of strenuous recreational activity may reduce the risks of invasive breast cancer by 23 percent, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC). Their report in the February issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, based on a survey of over 15,000 women, shows that exercise has a protective effect against invasive breast cancer throughout a woman's lifetime. [click link for full article] Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63428&nfid=crss Unlike the Body Mass Index used in thepast, this innovative method also takes into account individual leg length.The new index was developed as part of a project by the Austrian ScienceFund FWF, which had already provided the basis for resolving the problem ofunderweight in ski jumping. The project was based on wide-ranging fieldstudies during the Olympic Games. [click link for full article] Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63362&nfid=crss In the largest study of its kind, surgeons at Hospital for Special Surgery have determined that by modifying a classic ligament surgery, they can return more athletes, such as baseball players, to their prior level of competition. The modified surgery repairs a torn medial collateral ligament (MCL), which links and stabilizes bones of the lower and upper arm where they meet at the elbow. [click link for full article] Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63298&nfid=crss An improper throwing motion appears to be contributing to the rapid increase in arm injuries in young pitchers, according to a new study presented today at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The study finds that winding up and uncurling the body too late before releasing the ball leads to increased stress on the elbows of adolescent pitchers. One of these increasingly common injuries has been coined Little League elbow. [click link for full article] Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63292&nfid=crss Running, basketball and other high-impact sports may lead to stronger bones as people age, according to a new study presented today at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Measurements conducted on senior Olympic athletes found that the bone mineral density (BMD) for those who participated in impact sports was significantly greater than athletes who competed in low-impact sports like swimming and cycling. [click link for full article] Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63291&nfid=crss You know that adolescent sports have changed when a 13-year old soccer player named Freddy Adu signs a contract with Nike. A year later, Adu became the highest-paid American pro soccer player raking in a cool $500,000 a year. "Pediatric athletes are not little adults. They are still growing and developing - putting them at higher risk for serious injuries," said Mininder S. [click link for full article] Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63179&nfid=crss In the past 30 years, there has been an explosion in the number of girls and women participating in all types of sports. There has been a 10-fold increase in high school and 5-fold increase in collegiate sports. With this massive upsurge comes a disturbing trend - a much higher incidence of injuries for female athletes when compared to boys and men playing at the same level of sports. [click link for full article] Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63178&nfid=crss The long-held belief that women have more sports injuries than men because of the difference in hormones is just not true. Hormones certainly play a role according to orthopaedic surgeon Kimberly J. Templeton, MD, spokesperson for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Associate Professor with the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Orthopedics. [click link for full article] Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63166&nfid=crss The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) today released an updated Position Stand, Exercise and Fluid Replacement, placing emphasis on customized or individualized hydration regimens and offering details on hydration before, during, and after exercise. [click link for full article] Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=62712&nfid=crss We may not be as fit as the people of ancient Athens, despite all that modern diet and training can provide, according to research by University of Leeds (UK) exercise physiologist, Dr Harry Rossiter.Dr Rossiter measured the metabolic rates of modern athletes rowing a reconstruction of an Athenian trireme, a 37m long warship powered by 170 rowers seated in three tiers. [click link for full article] Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=62615&nfid=crss Cyclists are being warned to slip, slop, slap following a Queensland study which shows they are regularly getting sunburnt.Skin cancer researchers from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) attached UV dosimeters to the head, backs of hands and ankles of 22 cyclists who took part in a seven-day charity bike ride in Queensland. 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