001 seems to be important to encourage adolescents to engage in sports activity since these habits may persist into adulthood [8]. On the other hand, sports participation in adolescence, and participation in team sports in particular, may increase the incidence of alcohol intoxication during late adolescent and early adult years, even though participation in team sports and endurance sports may...

Sports-related concussion has received considerable attention from neuropsychologists, athletic trainers, team coaches, physicians, families, and athletes. In this context, researchers have recently developed computer programs for the assessment of sports-related concussion. Computer-based assessment of sports-related concussion saves time, allows for team baseline testing, and can be easily in...

A Decade of Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialty Program in Iran, Achievements and Challenges Ramin Kordi, and Navid Moghadam Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Vice President of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Tehran, IR Iran Department of Sports Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding auth...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to explore whether availability of sports facilities, parks, and neighbourhood social capital (NSC) and their interaction are associated with leisure time sports participation among Dutch adolescents. METHODS Cross-sectional analyses were conducted on complete data from the last wave of the YouRAction evaluation trial. Adolescents (n = 852) completed a ques...

AIM To investigate the association between sports hernias and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) in athletes. METHODS PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and Google Scholar databases were electronically searched for articles relating to sports hernia, athletic pubalgia, groin pain, long-standing adductor-related groin pain, Gilmore groin, adductor pain syndro...

Background. Many countries worldwide use sports events as a tool to stimulate both their national and local economies. To gain a competitive advantage, knowledge of sports event success is essential for stakeholders and hosting countries. However, due to the diverse conceptualizations of event success, the knowledge of the issue is fragmented, and there is a lack of comprehensive studies for sc...

A great deal of attention has been paid to social public sports facility construction in China. Studies being conducted on China’s social public sports facility utilization status have important significance in promotion of national sports investment. In this paper, China’s social public sports facility utilization status is analyzed by literature searching method and data statistical analysis ...

As sports scientists, we claim to make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge that influences athletic practice and performance. Is this the reality? At the inaugural congress of the Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science, a panel of well-credentialed academic experts with experience in the applied environment debated the question, Does sports-science research influ...

Sports participation is beneficial to health and socioemotional adjustment in youth across development. While there is some evidence indicating lower sports participation for children with developmental delays (DD) as compared with their typically developing (TD) peers, little is known as to the predictors of this differential participation. Given the increased risk of physical and mental healt...