Measurement Characteristics of Athlete Monitoring Tools in Professional Australian Football

Echocardiographic characteristics of professional football players.

OBJECTIVES We examined the echocardiographic characteristics of highly trained American football players. BACKGROUND Intense physical training is associated with morphologic and physiologic cardiac changes often referred to as the "athlete's heart." Echocardiographic features peculiar to elite football players have not been described. METHODS We studied cardiac morphology and function as as...

Game story space of professional sports: Australian rules football.

Sports are spontaneous generators of stories. Through skill and chance, the script of each game is dynamically written in real time by players acting out possible trajectories allowed by a sport's rules. By properly characterizing a given sport's ecology of "game stories," we are able to capture the sport's capacity for unfolding interesting narratives, in part by contrasting them with random w...

Rehabilitation after arthroscopic repair of intra-articular disorders of the hip in a professional football athlete.

OBJECTIVE To report the 4-phase rehabilitation progression of a professional athlete who underwent arthroscopic intra-articular repair of the hip after injury during the 2006-07 season. DESIGN Case study; level of evidence, 4. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Objective values were obtained by standard goniometric measurements, handheld dynamometer, dynamic sports testing, and clinical testing for intr...

Kidney injuries in professional American football: implications for management of an athlete with 1 functioning kidney.

BACKGROUND The frequency and severity of kidney injuries and their impact on return to play in American football has not been described in the literature. PURPOSE Our objective is to identify the number of kidney injuries in the National Football League (NFL) and the effect of these injuries. STUDY DESIGN Case series; Level of evidence, 4. METHODS All kidney injuries in the NFL from 1986 ...

Anabolic steroid-induced echocardiographic characteristics of professional football players?