As new multi-million dollar professional sports stadiums and arenas are built every year in the U.S., the benefit of these facilities continues to be debated. Few would disagree that the professional team owner using the venue receives major benefits (such as increased revenues from new suites, amenities, etc.). However, there are widely varying opinions on the benefit to the community in which...

BACKGROUND There is concern over the potential for a high incidence of injury in boxing. This is despite a lack of prospective data evaluating the risk for modern day participants. Updated, reliable data with a focus on potential exposure to injury for both amateur and, especially, professional boxers is required. AIM To determine the epidemiology of injury and exposure of amateur and profess...

Painful symptoms in sports and dancing have been object of increasing research over the last years. Professional dancers as well as sports professionals present high pain and tolerance thresholds, being common to find dancers with several injuries derived from excessive effort. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with painful symptoms in professional d...

OBJECTIVES To assess a 12-month period and the lifetime prevalence of sports injuries among male athletes according to type of sport, type of injury and its seriousness, and to examine the association of injuries with sociodemographic, lifestyle and preventive factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we approached 475 professional athletes participating in ball sports, age...