Correspondence to: Dr H.I. Okolie Department of Medicine Federal Medical Centre, Gombe. E-mail [email protected] INTRODUCTION Different physical activities produce different cardiovascular responses and consequences. Sedentary and unfit normotensive individuals have increased risk of developing High Blood Pressure (HBP) and Coronary Artery Disease, when compared with their more active and fi...

Professional baseball, the origin of professional sport in Japan, has been institutionalized through leading involvement corporations, which are economic organizations with purpose profit.

The current case study examines the gender differences on the effect of perceived CSR engagement on attitude and re-attendance intention toward a professional sport team. Spectators at a professional soccer game (N = 380) in Korea participated in the study and a multiple group analysis was conducted between male and female participants. Findings show that perceived CSR engagement had a signific...

INTRODUCTION This note engages in the public debate over the participation of female athletes with hyperandrogenism in professional sport. Hyperandrogenism, a condition leading to higher testosterone levels than would be expected for ‘biological females’, is thought by many to provide affected athletes with a competitive edge over non-affected athletes.1 In 2011, when public attention was drawn...

A 42 year-old male former semi-professional soccer player sustained a right lower extremity popliteal contusion during a soccer game. He was clinically diagnosed with a possible traumatic deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and sent for confirmatory tests. A duplex doppler ultrasound was positive for DVT, and the patient was admitted to hospital for anticoagulation (unfractionated heparin, warfarin). U...

Stabilometry is a branch of medicine responsible for the study of balance and postural control in human beings. To do this, it uses devices known as posturographs, which collect data related to people’s balance. In this paper we propose the use of data mining techniques in order to build predictive models based on a number of variables related to the balance of the analysed subjects. The result...

Professional sports have emerged as a lucrative business, with many opportunities for sports marketers to flourish. As this paper will show, professional sports teams unite to produce a league product that, while initially is produced to provide entertainment for spectators, is now sold to four distinct groups: first, fans who support leagues by attending games, following games on television an...

Objectives and method: This article introduces the concept of consultancy teams to a sport psychology readership, presenting an overview of initial applications and findings of this approach in applied settings. Although the notion and application of consultancy teams in therapeutic settings has been around for many years (e.g., Weakland, Fisch, Watzlawick, & Bodin, 1974), they have yet to be e...