Atrial myocarditis causing transient sinoatrial disease (incessant atrial tachycardia alternating with sinoatrial pauses of up to 6 s in duration) in an athlete is reported. Diagnosis was undertaken by endomyocardial biopsy; biventricular and right atrial specimens were obtained. After a 6-month rest period, the atrial arrhythmias disappeared, and the athlete was able to resume his professional...

To cite: De Souza MJ, Nattiv A, Joy E, et al. Br J Sports Med 2014;48:289. ABSTRACT The Female Athlete Triad is a medical condition often observed in physically active girls and women, and involves three components: (1) low energy availability with or without disordered eating, (2) menstrual dysfunction and (3) low bone mineral density. Female athletes often present with one or more of the thre...

OBJECTIVE To present the case of a talocrural dislocation with a Weber type C fibular fracture in a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football athlete. BACKGROUND The athlete, while attempting to make a tackle during a game, collided with an opponent, who in turn stepped on the lateral aspect of the athlete's ankle, resulting in forced ankle eversion and external rotation. O...

This case report presents the performance of an athlete who completed for the first time in history the total distance of 33 Ironman triathlons within 33 consecutive days. The athlete finished the total distance of 7,458 km (i.e. 125 km swimming, 5,940 km cycling and 1,393 km running) within a total time of 410 h and a mean time of 12 h 27 min per Ironman distance. During the 33 days, the athle...

The Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) is an individual electronic document that collects data regarding a specific athlete that is useful in differentiating between natural physiologic variations of selected biomarkers and deviations caused by artificial manipulations. A subsidiary of the endocrine module of the ABP, that which here is called Athlete Steroidal Passport (ASP), collects data on m...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect athlete mindfulness, which is expressed as ability athletes establish a cause-effect relationship without losing perception reality in moments and situations related sports, on development their psychological skills, emphasized by sports psychologists positively affect performance 85%. This designed according relational screening causal compar...

objectives: the goal of the present study was to compare the role of vision on static postural stability between athletes and nonathletes. methods: participants included two groups of 25 persons, men karatekas who were selected in isfahan (age 20.6±2.8 years, 66.24±10.34 kg of weight, height 1.76±0.07 m) and healthy young men in isfahan (age 21.6±2.33 years, 66.8±11.34 kg of weight, height 1.74...