Carotid artery dissection (CAD) is a potentially lifethreatening disease and mainly affects young and middle-aged people. In recent years dissections have been diagnosed more frequently, probably because new imaging techniques allow more reliable diagnosis. The cause of so-called spontaneous CAD is largely unexplained. It most likely involves an underlying abnormality of the vessel wall and tri...

Although researchers have documented that social anxiety may occur in a wide range of interpersonal and performance situations, little attention has been paid to the potential influence of social anxiety on participation in athletics or physical activity. The performance demands of sport and potential social evaluative nature of exercise make it likely that social anxiety would generalize to th...

Introduction. The purpose of this study was to analyze the functional outcome in competitive level athletes at 5 years after ACL reconstruction with regard to return to sports and the factors or reasons in those who either stopped sports or showed a fall in their sporting levels. Methods. 48 competitive athletes who had undergone arthroscopic assisted ACL reconstruction with a minimum follow up...