Background and Study Aim. This study aimed to investigate the effect of 8-weeks wrestling training on unilateral muscle imbalances.
 Material Methods. Eight male elite Greco-Roman wrestlers (wrestling group) (age 21.25±2.7 years, height 176.6±6.8 cm, body weight 81.00±9.3 kg) seven recreationally active (control 21.3±3.2 173.6±4.7 67.3±5.3 voluntarily participated in study. Both group part...

Egypt’s COVID-19 co-existence plan insisted on social distancing and keeping closure of physical sport entities. WHO illustrated the importance training at home with least 150 minutes moderate load exercises or 75 high in order to reduce indoor related health problems such as; anxiety, stress, immunity deficiency, so study aimed investigate Impact Indoor Training Program Due covid19 quarantine,...

Sumo wrestling, Japan's national sport, have a long history over 300 years in Japan. Sumo is becoming wellknown all over the world as one of Japanese culture (Nagayama, 2008). As you know, professional Sumo wrestlers are expected to lead specific lifestyles that promote increases in body weight after go professional. This notion makes Sumo wrestlers a unique group of professional athletes unlik...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of tinea gladiatorum among young wrestlers and dermatophyte contamination of wrestling mats from Sari city, the capital of Mazandaran, a northern province of Iran. DESIGN 324 wrestlers (aged 9-20 years) from 7 active clubs in Sari city were examined, and skin scrapings were obtained from 135 wrestlers suspected of having tinea gladiatorum. The scraped skin sa...

The geographical distribution of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) variants BgK(L) and BgO(L) and the high relative frequency (RF) of BgK(L) in orolabial lesions has led to a dispersion-replacement hypothesis for these variants. The pathogenic properties of HSV-1 variants in mice and professional sumo wrestlers were examined here. The wrestlers ...

BACKGROUND Wrestling is a very popular sport the world over and its popularity is rapidly increasing in India. However, due to its arduous nature it is associated with a high incidence of injuries. Out of all the injuries, those to the knee are one of the commonest injuries reported. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to study the pattern of these injuries in the Indian wrestlers. METHODS A prospective...

Herpes gladiatorum (HG) plagues the sport of wrestling, especially in high school wrestlers and summer camps they attend. This study evaluated the usage of valacyclovir to prevent acquisition of primary HG, due to herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), in high school wrestlers at a 28-day wrestling camp. At the beginning and end of camp, IgM and IgG anti-HSV-1 antibodies were collected. Out of 33...

This study aims to compare the physical and physiological profiles between elite men women wrestlers of free style category. The research group consist twenty-nine twenty-one freestyle who camped for performance tests at Turkish Olympic Preparation Center in Ankara 2 months before European Wrestling Championship Budapest on March 28-April 3, 2022. Subjects performed leg arm Wingate anaerobic te...

The objective of the paper was to determine body composition and somatotype of male Greco-Roman wrestlers grouped by different weight categories and level of competition. Twenty three contestants (aged 24.9±5.5 years, training experience 13.7±5.8 years) were examined during their competitive period. They were divided into heavier (n=12) and lighter weight categories (n=11).Twelve of them took p...