Braakhuis, A.J. (2015). Learning styles of elite and sub-elite athletes. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 10(4), pp.927935. Athletes have preferences for the way in which they internalise and process information. Athlete educators, such as coaches and sports medical staff, rarely consider the learning style of an prior to education. This study aims to characterise a range of athletes with regards to their...

The objective of this study is to determine which pre-existing athlete characteristics, if any, are associated with greater deficits in functioning following sports-related concussion, after controlling for factors previously shown to moderate this effect (e.g., time since injury). Ninety-one independent samples of concussion were included in a fixed+systematic effects meta-analysis (n = 3,801 ...

The objectives of this study were to estimate the incidence and describe the pattern and severity of training injuries in taekwondo, and to compare pattern and severity of training injuries with competition injuries. One hundred and fifty-two active Australian amateur taekwondo athletes, aged 12 years or over, completed an online survey comprising questions on training exposure and injury histo...

introduction: during the recent decades, many scholars focused on the physical activities as an influencing factor on psychological and mental status. concerning the importance of university students’ mental health, this paper investigates the effects of physical activities on promoting their mental health. materials & methods: in this descriptive analytical study, 200 female students of shahee...

The benefits of conventional estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) with regards to reduction or elimination of vasomotor symptoms, prevention of urogenital atrophy, protection against osteoporosis, reduction of cardiovascular risk and improvement in cognition in postmenopausal (PM) women are generally well accepted. However there is still inadequacy of current ERT in the treatment of sexual sympto...

Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma (BMPM) is rare and difficult to diagnose before surgery. We report a case of BMPM incidentally discovered during laparoendoscopic single site surgery (LESS) for treatment of a pelvic mass. A 47-year-old Korean menopaused woman presented to our outpatient clinic with a pelvic mass. She had a history of right ovary cystectomy with adhesiolysis at a local...

Eating disorders do occur in male athletes. They are less prominent than in Abstract female athletes, and therefore in danger of being missed. The high-risk sports fall into the same categories as with females: aesthetic sports, sports in which low body fat is advantageous, such as cross-country and marathon running, and sports in which there is a need to ‘make weight’, including wrestling and ...

PURPOSE To compare the chromatic contrast sensitivity function (CSF) for the blue-yellow opponent channel (BYOC) between female badminton players and non-athlete controls. METHODS We recruited 40 young females (18-25 years old) who played badminton for at least 5 consecutive years as the test group, and 30 age-matched female controls who had no history of regular physical activity. The Patter...

Today, researchers consider sports as one of the methods of reinforcement in the development of psychological parameters. The aim of the present study was to compare the alexithymia and its components, in athletes and non-athletic adolescents. Its components consist of difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF), difficulty in describing feelings (DDF), and externally oriented thinking (EOT). The ...