BACKGROUND Incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in young female basketball players is higher than that in male basketball players. Graft retears are more frequent with the increasing number of ACL reconstructions. The present study aimed to examine the incidence of retears in competitive female basketball players. METHODS Sixty-four female basketball players (aged 12 to 29 y...

Background. Although the educational program for teaching basketball shooting has been discussed, the mental visualization of teaching shooting skills for beginners has not been discussed yet. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of mental visualization in teaching some types of basketball shooting skills. Methods. The experimental method was chosen for its suitabil...

The study investigated the common types and sites of injuries which were sustained by male soccer, basketball and field hockey players during a period of 8 weeks of intensive training and competition. In all, 170 soccer players, 127 basketball players and 212 hockey players drawn from various clubs in Nigeria formed the subjects of the study, a total of 509 patients. Questionnaires on the prosp...

introduction: shin splint is one of the common injuries in most athletes. although the relationship between abnormal foot posture and shin splint has been reported previously but, the relation between foot posture and shin splint has not been well documented. the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between foot postures in basketball players and the history of shin splint. materia...

purpose ankle sprain is one of the most common injuries among athletes and instability and injury to this joint is responsible for long time loss of physical and recreational activity. also, it can impose high costs to sport teams. prevention of this injury is an important concern of practice and rehabilitation. one way of reducing the possibility of ankle joint injury is using an ankle orthosi...

Synergy Graphs model team performance as a function of individual capabilities and inter-agent compatibility. Synergy Graphs have previously been applied to team formation problems in multi-agent systems, physical robot teams, and selecting modules for multi-robot teams. In this extended abstract, we describe how the Synergy Graph model is applied to human teams. In particular, we focus on bask...

Most approaches to detection and classification of human activity deal with observing individual persons. However, people often tend to organize into groups to achieve certain goals, and human activity is sometimes more readily defined and observed in the context of whole group, where the activity is coordinated among its members. An excellent example of this are team sports, which can provide ...

While the existence of a mirror neuron system (MNS) representing and mirroring simple purposeful actions (such as reaching) is known, neural mechanisms underlying the representation of complex actions (such as ballet, fencing, etc.) that are learned by imitation and exercise are not well understood. In this study, correct and incorrect basketball actions were visually presented to professional ...

We examined the effects of visual control training on expert wheelchair basketball shooting, a skill more difficult than in regular basketball, as players shoot from a seated position to the same rim height. The training consisted of shooting with a visual constraint that forced participants to use target information as late as possible. Participants drove under a large screen that initially bl...