BACKGROUND The prevalence of asthma and bronchial hyper-responsiveness is greater in elite athletes than in the general population, and its association with mild airway inflammation has recently been reported. OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between the type of sport practised at the highest levels of competition (on land or in water) and sputum induction cell counts in a group of healthy...

Increased Achilles (AT) and Patellar tendon (PT) thickness in adolescent athletes compared to non-athletes could be shown. However, it is unclear, if changes are of pathological or physiological origin due to training. The aim of this study was to determine physiological AT and PT thickness adaptation in adolescent elite athletes compared to non-athletes, considering sex and sport. In a longitu...

introduction: contact sports may lead to dental injures, which may often be prevented by using mouthguards. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries (tdi) in professional contact sport athletes and to determine the awareness regarding use of mouthguards in this group. methods: a questionnaire containing a number of  questions regarding the demographi...

BACKGROUND Youth participation in organized sports in the United States is rising, with many athletes focusing on a single sport at an increasingly younger age. PURPOSE To retrospectively compare single-sport specialization in current high school (HS), collegiate, and professional athletes with regard to the rate and age of specialization, the number of months per year of single-sport trainin...

motivation is one of those factors affecting the success and quality of athletic performance. however, limited research has been conducted on the motivational traits of iranian athletes. this study aimed at describing the motivational traits of skilled and novice athletes of team and individual sports in some selected sports fields. players of national teams of the individual sports of karate, ...

Sumo wrestling is unique in combat sport, and in all of sport. We examined the maximum aerobic capacity and body composition of sumo wrestlers and compared them to untrained controls. We also compared "aerobic muscle quality", meaning VO2max normalized to predicted skeletal muscle mass (SMM) (VO2max /SMM), between sumo wrestlers and controls and among previously published data for male athletes...

BANFI, G. Serum creatinine concentrations in athletes: are they normal? Brazilian Journal of Biomotricity, v. 4, n. 3, p 157-164, 2010. In sports medicine, creatinine is used for evaluating general health status of athletes. In the present review, different aspects of the behaviour of creatinine values in sportsmen are summarized. The reference values for common biochemical and haematological p...

objective: this study was performed to survey the relationship between coaches’ and athletes’ competitive anxiety, and their performance. methods: this is a descriptive correlational study performed using a demographic questionnaire, an athletic performance checklist, and sport competition anxiety test designed by martens consisting of 15 questions. the study population consisted of 540 players...