Injury rates in youth soccer, known as football outside the United States, are higher than in many other contact/collision sports and have greater relative numbers in younger, preadolescent players. With regard to musculoskeletal injuries, young females tend to suffer more knee injuries, and young males suffer more ankle injuries. Concussions are fairly prevalent in soccer as a result of contac...

ABSTRACT Introduction: This is a study on the reasonable organization and collocation of sports health elements in different forms, how this reflected through scientific exercise instructors. Objective: To improve effect medicine biomechanical energy metabolism human health. Methods: The model knee joint stress was used to analyze mechanical behavior flexion, such as movement contact; variation...

This research includes the study of the existing head-mounted display (HMD)enabled interface program and suggests improved interface scheme of HMD-enabled virtual reality (VR) games. The traditional keyboard and mouse based input schemes need to be replaced by user-friendly interface scheme such as the HMD. The higher the immersion degree of game users is expected, the less user intervention is...

BACKGROUND Hamstring injuries are the most common injury in Australian Rules football. It was the aims to investigate whether a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention protocol provided in addition to the current best practice management could prevent the occurrence of and weeks missed due to hamstring and other lower-limb injuries at the semi-elite level of Australian football. METHO...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated the success of the Latarjet procedure for recurrent anterior glenohumeral instability in the contact or collision athlete. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the return-to-sport and functional results of the Latarjet procedure in this select group. METHODS One hundred and nine consecutive contact or collision athletes (112 shoulders) treated with a...

M yositis ossificans, also known as ossifying hema-toma or heterotopic ossification, is a potentially disabling condition that most often affects the thigh and is typically associated with contact sports (e.g., football, rugby, lacrosse). The risk of myositis ossificans after a thigh contusion varies between 4% and 74%. The critical questions are: How can we identify high-risk patients? and Wha...

The use of 3 or more efforts (running and contact), separated by short recovery periods, is widely used to define a "repeated high-intensity effort" (RHIE) bout in rugby league. It has been suggested that due to fatigue, players become less effective after RHIE bouts; however, there is little evidence to support this. This study determined whether physical performance is reduced after performin...