BACKGROUND: The relationship between strength and throwing velocity is much investigated in handball, but core largely ignored. Only four studies have the effect of training on handball velocity, reporting conflicting results amateur players. However, lack specificity deficient technical execution amateurs can obscure results. OBJECTIVE: To examine direct association trunk flexion elite players...

The accurate measurement of sport exposure time and injury occurrence is key to effective injury prevention and management. Current measures are limited by their inability to identify all types of sport-related injury, narrow scope of injury information, or lack the perspective of the injured athlete. The aims of the study were to evaluate the proportion of injuries and the agreement between sp...

THE AIM OF THE INVESTIGATION WAS TO 1) compare shoulder external/internal rotator muscles' peak torques and average power values and their ratios in the dominant and non-dominant arm; 2) determine correlations between shoulder rotator muscles' peak torques, average power and ball-throwing speed in handball players. Fourteen 14 to 15-year-old male athletes with injury-free shoulders participated...

Little is known about the true extent and severity of overuse injuries in sport, largely because of methodological challenges involved in recording them. This study assessed the prevalence of overuse injuries among Norwegian athletes from five sports using a newly developed method designed specifically for this purpose. The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Injury Questionnaire was dis...

Objective : To determine the effect of personal diet on sports performance and competition results female handball players Major League Super League. Methods The study involved athletes women’s team «LUCH» (Moscow), major league (16–17 years old) – n=10 super (17–36 old)-n =16. Athletes are at competitive stage training. Qualification: Candidate Master Sports, Sports international class. Resear...

This paper focusses on aspects of applied data mining in the context team handball. It presents an approach to transform collected handball matches into formats that allow use classification and methods search for association rules. To be able patterns at arbitrary times a concept logical clock is introduced, which becomes essential part preparation. The are described detail using RapidMiner pr...

In handball, specific physical demands differ and indifference to spinal can cause a serious hindrance in infinite value of sport life. The main aim this paper is make steps toward understanding identify clear patterns injury profile from handball players according their playing positions. With these challenge mind, new method using structured questionnaire has been applied number 52 senior mal...

In most sports, the development of elite athletes is a long-term process of talent identification and support. Typically, talent selection systems administer a multi-faceted strategy including national coach observations and varying physical and psychological tests when deciding who is chosen for talent development. The aim of this exploratory study was to evaluate the prognostic validity of ta...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that the cessation of sports training in young athletes reduces the prevalence of varicocele. MATERIAL AND METHODS 1,013 young males were divided into three age-matched groups based on their sport activity. The first group consisted of 305 athletically active boys in basketball, volleyball, handball, or football; the second of 44 ac...