BACKGROUND Basketball is the most popular sport among the U.S. Air Force (USAF) active duty population and causes a large number of lost-workday injuries. The purpose of this study is to describe how basketball injuries occur to allow development of effective countermeasures. METHODS This study used data derived from safety reports obtained from the USAF Ground Safety Automated System. Basket...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of L-alanyl-L-glutamine (AG) ingestion on basketball performance, including jump power, reaction time, shooting accuracy and fatigue. METHODS Ten women (21.2 ± 1.6 years; height: 177.8 ± 8.7 cm; body mass: 73.5 ± 8.0 kg), all scholarship NCAA Division I basketball players, volunteered for this study. Subjects participated in fou...

BACKGROUND Ankle injuries are the most common high school basketball injury. Little is known regarding the utilization of ankle injury prevention strategies in high school settings. OBJECTIVE To determine high school basketball coaches' utilization of ankle injury prevention strategies, including prophylactic ankle bracing (PAB) or an ankle injury prevention exercise program (AIEPP). STUDY ...

Discovering temporal patterns in large datasets is a challenging problem because researchers must explore a huge space of possible correlations. EventScope is a visualization and ranking tool to assist in identification of temporal patterns leading to, or following, different events. In order to identify non-trivial patterns, EventScope splits the data based on user-specified reference events. ...

For natural human-agent interaction, the recognition of important gestures to facilitate communication is necessary. Recent advances in technology have made it possible to use the human body as a means for this interaction. In this paper, we combine techniques to create a process flow which can discover and extract a body gesture, create a low-dimensional model, and then use it to recognize bod...

BACKGROUND Patellar tendinopathy (PT) is one of the most common reasons for sport-induced pain of the knee. Low ankle dorsiflexion range might predispose for PT because of load-bearing compensation in the patellar tendon. PURPOSE The purpose of this 1-year prospective study was to analyze if a low ankle dorsiflexion range increases the risk of developing PT for basketball players. STUDY DES...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of overt and covert motivationalself-talk on perceived exertion and performance in a progressive exercise untilexhaustion in wrestlers. the population consisted of wrestlers in urmia and 15volunteer subjects were selected. this study was performed in three sessions with aone-week interval. the first session was held without self–talk while the sec...

BACKGROUND Basketball is the second most popular sport in Nigeria after football and is commonly played by adolescents. Prospective studies on adolescent basketball players in Nigeria are lacking. Such studies will help to develop injury counter-measures. Hence, this study aimed at determining the incidence and pattern of injuries among adolescent basketball players in Nigeria. METHODS A pros...

In this paper, the authors propose a schema for a decision support system for basketball defense strategies using a fuzzy expert system. The authors introduce the original ideas for the proposed schema and the background of the basketball defense strategies. The authors also present the fuzzy input and output attributes for the fuzzy expert system according to the domain knowledge from the bask...

Discovering temporal patterns in large datasets is a challenging problem because researchers must explore a huge space of possible correlations. EventScope is a visualization and ranking tool to assist in identification of temporal patterns leading to, or following, different events. In order to identify non-trivial patterns, EventScope splits the data based on user-specified reference events. ...