PURPOSE Sixteen elite female handball players were studied to examine the effects of an entire season on anthropometric characteristics, physical fitness, and throwing velocity. METHODS One-repetition-maximum bench press (1RMBP), jumping explosive strength, power-load relationship of the leg and arm extensor muscles, 5- and 15-m sprint running time, endurance running, and handball throwing ve...

In team handball, suitable tests determining the match-related physical performance are essential for planning of optimal training regimens. Thus, aims present study were (a) to determine relationships between and physiological test results from a handball game-based (GBPT), Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test, level 1 (Yo-Yo IR1 test) separate linear 30-m single sprint (SSPT) in female adult top-...

The aim of this study was to analyse whether there are differences in bone mass in girls playing different sports. Two hundred girls (10.6 ± 1.5 years old, Tanner stages I-III) participated in the study and were divided into groups of 40 (swimmers, soccer players, basketball players, handball players and controls). Bone mineral content and bone mineral density (BMD) (whole body and hip) were me...

The aim of the study was to analyse the effects of 6 week (15 sessions) flywheel resistance training with eccentric-overload (FRTEO) on different functional and anatomical variables in professional handball players. Twenty-nine athletes were recruited and randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group (EXP, n = 15) carried out 15 sessions of FRTEO in the leg-press exercise, with 4 set...

BACKGROUND Long-term outcome after anterior cruciate ligament injury among top-level pivoting athletes is unknown. PURPOSE To evaluate outcome among competitive team handball players after anterior cruciate ligament injury. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS A previously studied group of 86 elite players who had an anterior cruciate ligament rupture were invited to participate...

With the aim of determining the common morphological features of senior male handball players and of analyzing their specificities i.e. the probable variation between the four playing positions (back court players, wings, pivots, goalkeepers), 25 anthropometric measures were applied to the sample of 49 players, members of three top-quality handball teams. The basic descriptive parameters were c...

This study investigated the relationship between perceived reduction in performance due to injury or illness (RPII) and basic psychological need satisfaction youth elite handball. Participants were 174 handball players 15 18 years of age, from five different sport schools. It was a quantitative study, with two time points (one week apart), resulting crossed-lagged structural equation model. Com...

in the past 10 years, the amount of research conducted on psychological aspects of sport injury has been increasing. the purpose of this study was to predict the burnout according to the self-determined motivation in iranian elite handball players before and after the injury. the subjects were 28 injured elite handball players who did not participate in competitions for 4 weeks due to their inj...

The principal purpose of this prospective study was to examine intercondylar notch size and the value of inner angle of lateral femoral condyle as the risk factors for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament ACL injury and than to correlate them to the physical values of the athletes such as body mass index (BMI), hight, wight, etc. There are indentified two type of risk factors, external include...

Resumen: El propósito de este estudio fue realizar una revisión bibliométrica de la producción científica en balonmano. Las publicaciones se recopilaron de las bases de datos Web of Science y MEDLINE en el periodo 1900-2012 y 1950-2012 respectivamente. El análisis evaluó el tipo de documento, idioma, tendencia anual de publicación, número medio de autores por artículo, disciplinas y temas de in...