BACKGROUND A thorough knowledge of the epidemiology and severity of injuries and illness in youth female elite sports is lacking due to the methodological challenges involved in recording them. In this study, the prevalence and incidence of injuries and illness are assessed among youth female elite athletes. Instead of solely focusing on time-loss injuries, our study included all substantial an...

3 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk of developing exercise induced asthma in 4 atopic Tunisian athletes. The study population was composed by 326 athletes (age: 20.8±2.7 5 yrs –mean ± SD; 138women and 188 men) take out which 107 were elite athletes. 6 The subjects underwent a skin prick test to check for atopy, completed an 8-min running test, 7 and a lung function measure. For...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Athletes generally desire changes in body composition in order to enhance their athletic performance. Often, athletes will practice chronic energy restrictions to attain body composition changes, altering their energy needs. Prediction of resting metabolic rates (RMR) is important in helping to determine an athlete's energy expenditure. This study compared measured RMR of ...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are common, and children as young as 10 years of age exhibit movement patterns associated with an ACL injury risk. Prevention programs have been shown to reduce injury rates, but the mechanisms behind these programs are largely unknown. Few studies have investigated biomechanical changes after injury prevention programs in children. Purpose/H...

More infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) now survive to adulthood, but little is known regarding persisting respiratory impairment. We report respiratory symptoms, lung function and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adult BPD survivors compared with preterm (non-BPD) and full-term controls. Respiratory symptoms (European Community Respiratory Health Survey) and HRQoL (EuroQol ...

abstract objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between core stability and lower extremity injuries in female athletes through functional tests. decreased core stability has been suggested to contribute to the etiology of lower extremity injuries. so far researches had been used non-functional tests to assess the core stability. material and methods: fifty col...

Urinary glycosaminoglycan (GAG) excretion was measured in children with idiopathic urolithiasis (15 girls and 10 boys; mean (SD) age 6.2 (2.4) years) and in healthy controls (10 girls and 14 boys; mean (SD) age 6.8 (3.8) years). GAG excretion was expressed as a GAG/creatinine (mg/g) ratio and was evaluated using dimethylmethylene blue. In healthy control children, the mean (SD) GAG/creatinine r...

No prior research has examined how motivation for goal striving influences persistence in the face of increasing goal difficulty. This research examined the role of self-reported (Study 1) and primed (Study 2) autonomous and controlled motives in predicting objectively assessed persistence during the pursuit of an increasingly difficult goal. In Study 1, 100 British athletes (64 males; M(age)  ...

purpose : this study was designed to assess and compare the thickness of the peripapillar retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) in amblyopic and normal eyes in unilateral strabismic ambelyopia using scanning laser polarimeter. methods : scanning laser polarimetry was performed on 17 patients with unilateral strabismic amblyopia who had an absence of neurologic diseases or glaucoma with a minimum age...

INTRODUCTION This retrospective study analysed head and neck malignancies seen over a 19-year period at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. METHODOLOGY One thousand, one hundred and ninety two patients with head and neck malignancies were analysed according to age, gender, topography and histology. RESULTS There was an annual hospital frequency of 62 cases per year. The overall mean ag...