CONTEXT Female soccer athletes are at greater risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury than males. Sex differences in muscle activation may contribute to the increased incidence of ACL injuries in female soccer athletes. OBJECTIVE To examine sex differences in lower extremity muscle activation between male and female soccer athletes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Divis...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate differences in recovery in male and female soccer athletes. HYPOTHESES Soccer players with a history of concussion will perform worse on neurocognitive testing than players without a history of concussion. Furthermore, female athletes will demonstrate poorer performance on neurocognitive testing than male athletes. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study ...

The majority of injuries sustained by female athletes are due to participation in sports rather than their sex. Anatomic, hormonal,and functional differences should be understood when treating the female athlete. Screening should be done for eating disorders and the female athlete triad. Female athletes have increased rates of injury to the anterior cruciate ligament and patellofemoral disorder...

BACKGROUND In sports involving pivoting and landing, female athletes suffer knee injury at a greater rate than male athletes. HYPOTHESES Proprioceptive deficits in control of the body's core may affect dynamic stability of the knee. Female, but not male, athletes who suffered a knee injury during a 3-year follow-up period would demonstrate decreased core proprioception at baseline testing as ...

OBJECTIVE To present findings from a collaborative study with the National College Athletic Association regarding the prevalence of disordered eating among student athletes. METHOD 1,445 student athletes from 11 Division 1 schools were surveyed using a 133-item questionnaire. RESULTS Results indicated that 1.1% of the females met DSM-IV criteria for bulimia nervosa versus 0% for males. None...

This study was conducted to determine the anthropometric measurements and body composition of selected national athletes. A total of 84 male athletes from 10 different types of sports and 24 female athletes from 5 types of sports were studied. The height and body weight of subjects were measured using the SEGA weighing balance with height attachment. Skinfold thickness measurements were taken u...

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical and performance related utility of hematological and iron-related screening in elite athletes. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING The Department of Sports Medicine at the Australian Institute of Sport. PARTICIPANTS Male and female elite athletes undergoing routine medical screening over a period of 2 to 3 years. INTERVENTION Blood testing for he...

OBJECTIVE To determine if approximate entropy (ApEn), a regularity statistic from non-linear dynamics, could detect changes in postural control during quiet standing in athletes with normal postural stability after cerebral concussion. METHODS The study was a retrospective, case series analysis of centre of pressure (COP) data collected during the Sensory Organization Test (SOT) from NCAA Div...