BACKGROUND Before preventive actions can be suggested for sports injuries at the national level, a solid surveillance system is required in order to study their epidemiology, risk factors and mechanisms. There are guidelines for sports injury data collection and classifications in the literature for that purpose. In Sweden, 90% of all athletes (57/70 sports federations) are insured with the sam...

Sports chiropractic within Australia has a chequered historical background of unorthodox individualistic displays of egocentric treatment approaches that emphasise specific technique preference and individual prowess rather than standardised evidence based management. This situation has changed in recent years with the acceptance of many within sports chiropractic to operate under an evidence i...

BACKGROUND Since their conception during the mid-1970s, international participation in extreme sports has grown rapidly. The recent death of extreme snowmobiler Caleb Moore at the 2013 Winter X Games has demonstrated the serious risks associated with these sports. PURPOSE To examine the incidence and prevalence of head and neck injuries (HNIs) in extreme sports. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive epi...

BACKGROUND It is important to identify the reasons or factors preventing patients from participating in sports activities after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) to improve patient satisfaction and general health that can be gained from regular sports activities. PURPOSE To determine the reasons for lack of participation in regular sports activities after TKA as perceived by patients and to ident...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations of perceived physical environmental factors (availability of physical activity (PA) attributes at home, PA facilities in the neighbourhood, neighbourhood pleasantness and safety) and social environmental factors (parental sports behaviour and parental rule regarding sports participation) with adolescent leisure-time sports participation, and to explore whet...

sociologists including structuralists and trans-structuralists emphatically believe in interpreting sports rules ideologically and also believe that a number of factors such as power of personality, organization and economic situation are involved. this research studies the relationship between personality power, economic, social and organizational resources with ideologically interpreting the ...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the understanding of relationship between social capital and participation in sports activities. the study was descriptive and methods of data collection and field measurement tool were made by the researcher as questionnaires. the population of the study, all women over 18 years old and lived in iran, was 164, 535 people. the sample size was ...

The Orchard Sports Injury Classification System (OSICS) is one of the world's most commonly used systems for coding injury diagnoses in sports injury surveillance systems. Its major strengths are that it has wide usage, has codes specific to sports medicine and that it is free to use. Literature searches and stakeholder consultations were made to assess the uptake of OSICS and to develop new ve...

With the dramatic increase of the live webcast scripts about sports, it is an urgent demand to write and publish a sports news article immediately after a sports game. However, so far, the sports news articles are usually written by human experts or journalists, and the manual writing of sports news is timeconsuming and inefficient. This paper describes our system on the sports news generation ...