Vol. 5 (6D) n June 2005 BACKGROUND (CASE 1) A 41-year-old woman presented with no complaints of pain, but she was concerned about discoloration of her toenails. She has a black belt in karate and works as a karate teacher. She works out in her bare feet and is embarrassed by the condition of her toenails. She had approximately 25% to 30% distal involvement in her toenail, with no other nail inv...

Karate is now a popular participant pastime in Great Britain and with the governing bodies attempting to gain Olympic recognition for the sport it is important that adequate medical cover be available for competitors. It has already been shown that there is a relatively high incidence of injury in competition (McLatchie 1976) and that this can also be prevented to some degree (McLatchie 1977). ...

The purpose of this study was to assess relative total body fat and skinfold patterning in Filipino national karate and pencak silat athletes. Participants were members of the Philippine men's and women's national teams in karate (12 males, 5 females) and pencak silat (17 males and 5 females). In addition to age, the following anthropometric measurements were taken: height, body mass, triceps, ...

OBJECTIVES To identify risk factors for injury and to establish safety guidelines for children in Uechi-Ryu karate. DESIGN A 1-year retrospective survey of injuries. SETTING A private karate school (Uechi-Ryu style) in Plymouth, MA. PATIENTS A total of 68 athletes (age 6-16 years; mean age 10 years) who participated in karate during the 1995-1996 season. INTERVENTIONS None. MAIN OUTCO...

The purpose of this study was first, to determine whether there were differences in the roundhouse kicking leg kinematics performed by highly skilled Muay Thai, Karate and Taekwondo practitioners (n = 8 per group). Next, analysis aimed to identify the kinematic determinants of effective roundhouse kicking performance. Three-dimensional (3D) lower limb kinematics were recorded using a nine camer...

BACKGROUND The effects of exercise volume on the pattern of muscle activity is one of the most important factors in training management and injury risk reduction. In the lower limb, the quadriceps muscle which plays a determining role in performing the stance and other karate techniques could be injured in intensive exercise and may induce anterior knee pain in athletes. OBJECTIVES The aim of...

Karate is a martial arts sport originating from Japan, and body contact that involves physical touch. This activity serves to provide additional material athletes in the Ojeroles Team Dojo. also aims get know, identify conditions of school environment or training ground.

The aim of this paper is to propose and evaluate the novel method of template generation, matching, comparing and visualization applied to motion capture (kinematic) analysis. To evaluate our approach, we have used motion capture recordings (MoCap) of two highly-skilled black belt karate athletes consisting of 560 recordings of various karate techniques acquired with wearable sensors. We have e...

PURPOSE Investigate the physiological responses and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) in elite karate athletes and examine the relationship between a subjective method (Session-RPE) and two objective heart-rate (HR)-based methods to quantify training-load (TL) during international karate competition. METHODS Eleven karatekas took part in this study, but only data from seven athletes who comp...