CONTEXT The burden of injuries to college ultimate players has never been fully described. OBJECTIVE To quantify the injury rate in ultimate players and describe the diagnoses, anatomic locations, and mechanisms of injuries. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiology study. SETTING College ultimate teams in the United States during the 2012 season. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Initial injury rate per 1...

M usculoskeletal injuries are an integral part of many sports. Contact sports seem to produce the most, with football, hockey, soccer, and basketball leading the way. As athletes compete and push themselves to improve, sprains, strains, contusions, and other injuries become part of the daily routine. Those often attending to these athletes with regular aches and pains are athletic trainers, phy...

Institutions 1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA 3 School of Health Care Sciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. 4 Cardiff and Vale Univers...

Affi liations: From Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital. Financial/nonfi nancial disclosures: The author has reported to CHEST that no potential confl icts of interest exist with any companies/organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article. Correspondence to: Malay Sharma, MD, DM, Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Opp Sports Stadium, Maw...

Miriam Getz is with the Kibuzzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel and the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled in Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]. Yeshayahu Hutzler is with Zinman College for Physical Education and Sports at the Wingate Institute and the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]. Adri Vermeer is with the faculty of ...

1- The effect of using indirect mental training accompanied by simultaneous (final) feedback according to random practice schedule in learning technical performance on the effectiveness discus throwing for second stage students College Physical Education and Sports Sciences.

PURPOSE This study aimed to develop a sports-related human rights education program for college student-athletes. METHODS To do this, literature reviews, individual interviews, and experts’ meeting data were collected. The analyzed using content analysis domain analysis. RESULTS involved five steps. First, the reviews examined problems improvement points regarding previous programs. Second, dir...

Athlete Identity is an important determinant of athletic sports performance. The aim the study was to assess gender differences in intercollegiate athletes on Identity. sample comprised 250 college’s both male and female competing at collegiate, State National level various sports. representing different disciplines were administered Measurement Scale (AIMS). results analyzed using SPSS. findin...