OBJECTIVES To establish how sport, and access to an athletic identity, has been used when adjusting to a spinal cord injury. DESIGN Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. SETTING Private athletic club. PARTICIPANTS Eight (six males and two females) athletes from a wheelchair badminton club participated in the study. The individuals had finished rehabilitation, and were aged b...

Background. The badminton forehand overhead jump smash is one of the high speed and powerful motions among various racket sports. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of fatigue on the kinematic variable movement changes during overhead jump smash in badminton. Methods. This study is descriptive quantitative research with the pre-test and post-test design methods use...

To build a robust visual tracking method it is important to consider issues such as low observation resolution and variation in the target object’s shape. When we capture an object moving fast in a video camera motion blur is observed. This paper introduces a visual trajectory estimation method using blur characteristics in the 3D space. We acquire a movement speed vector based on the shape of ...

OBJECTIVE This study describes a unique case of bilateral stress fractures of the fibulae and provides a literature review. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 16-year-old female badminton player presented with pain around the bilateral distal lateral legs. She had mild bilateral varus deformity at the knee joint, and the bilateral ankles showed valgus deformity in standing posture. Radi...

ABSTRACT A systematic review in PubMed, Web of Science, SPORTDiscus, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar was conducted to provide a state-of-the-science overview agility tests the racquet sports tennis, badminton, squash while evaluating their measurement properties. Twenty articles were included covering 28 tests. Results showed 10 sport-specific which 5 assessed on reliability 6 validity. Both Badca...

In an 8-year retrospective study, 631 injuries due to the racquet sports of squash (59%), tennis (21%) and badminton (20%) were seen in a sports injury clinic, males predominating (58 to 66%). The proportion of squash injuries was higher than expected and probably relates to higher physical stress and risk of contact in this sport. Also they occurred mainly in persons over 25 years (59%) i.e. t...

The records of the 118 patients treated as Southampton Eye Hospital during 1978-9 for injuries incurred while playing squash, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cricket, and football show that for squash the main cause of eye injury was the player being hit by the ball. Severe eye injuries--those requiring treatment as an inpatient--were rare but much more frequent than such injuries in other spo...

Badminton games can run well, mastery of techniques or basic game skills is needed. players must also have good physical abilities. There needs to be an application that supports the performance coach. The purpose creating a product realize attractive design for coaches, especially badminton. this study was determine percentage condition displays badminton athletes aged 10-12 years based on and...

This study aims to explore how social media enforces athlete accountability through a case in badminton. employed netnography and supported by interpretive approach understand process the media, Twitter. The object of this is badminton fanbase account namely Badminton Talk. finding indicated that Twitter brings complete component into media. was presented spreading information regarding miscond...