We examined levels of, and reasons for, anti-gay and anti-lesbian prejudice (homophobia) in pre-service physical education (PE) and non-physical education (non-PE) university students. Participants (N = 409; 66% female; N = 199 pre-service physical educators) completed questionnaires assessing anti-gay and lesbian prejudice, authoritarianism, social dominance orientation (SDO), physical/athleti...

BACKGROUND The most common ankle injury is the lateral ankle sprain. Dutch annual sports-related ankle sprain costs can roughly be estimated at €187,200,000. Research has shown that proprioceptive training accounts for an approximated overall 50% reduction in ankle sprain recurrence rate. HYPOTHESIS An unsupervised proprioceptive training program to reduce the recurrence of lateral ankle spra...

OBJECTIVE To explore awareness of the reproductive versus the medical risks of obesity in a medical and non-medical college educated population. METHODS An exploratory prospective research design was used. A 26-question online survey was developed and offered to a sample of medical students/residents (n=325) and non-medical college students (n=102). The data were analyzed using Graph Pad soft...

'Coaching Boys into Men' is an evidence-based dating violence prevention program for coaches to implement with male athletes. A common adaptation of this program is delivery by domestic violence and sexual violence prevention advocates instead of coaches. We explored how this implementer adaptation may influence athlete uptake of program messages and outcomes. Randomly, one school received the ...

BACKGROUND To describe injury and illness incidence from the US Youth Olympic Team during the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). METHODS Electronic health records of Team USA athletes registered for the YOG were reviewed for patient encounters during the 2014 YOG. Medical encounters were defined as all medical services provided by a healthcare provider including evaluation, treatment and prophyl...

background: maximal volume oxygen is an accepted standard for measuring cardiorespiratory readiness. this factor indicates the power of physiological adoption for increasing activity time and efficiency of cardiovascular system. the objective of this study was to find out an optimal correlation between maximal volume oxygen and maximal voluntary ventilation indicators and their effect on cardio...

Purpose: Long term effects of poliomyelitis are known in many countries. Despite no definite label for these signs and symptoms, there is a remarkable similarity among patients with regard to description of the problems and complications of the disease. In this study, we compared the prevalence of symptoms of Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS) in athlete and non-athlete poliomyelitis survivors. Methods...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects plyometric training with additional weight on physical performance and muscle damage findings in faculty sports sciences athlete-students. Physical tests blood samples athlete-students (male 23.41 ± 3.2 years old) were collected both from sample control groups at first week last twelfth week. During study, programs applied group (AWG) no (AG)....