Groin pain is a common complaint amongst sportsmen and women accounting for nearly 10% of all sports related injuries. This article focuses on non-bony causes of groin pain in sportsmen, particularly upon the condition commonly known as ‘sportsman’s hernia’ or ‘sportsman’s groin’. It also highlights a new concept for the cause of groin pain in that the authors consider that many elite athletes ...

AIM To explore the lived experiences of adolescents with sickle cell disease, in Kingston, Jamaica. METHOD A descriptive qualitative design was used for this research. In-depth interviews were conducted with six adolescents with sickle cell disease at a Sickle Cell Unit operated by the University of the West Indies. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. RESULTS...

Creating an active and healthy lifestyle starts in infancy and adolescence. A number of individual and collective factors affect whether or not sport is taken up and continued, which is an essential element in achieving a healthy lifestyle in adolescence and extending this into adult life. This study sets out to determine the perceived quality of the sport service provided by schools with organ...

Elite sporting performance results from the combination of innumerable factors, which interact with one another in a poorly understood but complex manner to mould a talented athlete into a champion. Within the field of sports science, elite performance is understood to be the result of both training and genetic factors. However, the extent to which champions are born or made is a question that ...

The role of personality traits in sporting achievement has generated interests among sport researchers and practitioners, however, studies on the relationship between sporting achievement and personality traits have yielded no clear evidence of a cause effect relationship. Instead, psychological skills and attitudes have shown evidence of influence over sporting achievement. This study explored...

Creating an active and healthy lifestyle starts in infancy and adolescence. A number of individual and collective factors affect whether or not sport is taken up and continued, which is an essential element in achieving a healthy lifestyle in adolescence and extending this into adult life. This study sets out to determine the perceived quality of the sport service provided by schools with organ...

Activity patterns of recent Homo sapiens are characterized by a sedentary life style and consequently by exercise deficiency. This lack of physical activity increases the risk of various chronic non-communicable diseases and reduces health related quality of life. From the perspective of evolutionary medicine, the high rates of non-communicable disease among contemporary industrialized populati...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of sporting activity on absenteeism in a working population. METHODS Data were used from a prospective cohort study in a working population with a follow up period of 3 years and were collected with yearly questionnaires or collected from company records. Complete data on absenteeism, sporting activity, and potential confounders were collected for 1228 work...