Aerobic capacity in athletes should be enthused by training according to the rhythm and direction. The purpose of this study was compare aerobic sports non-sports women women’s college Anantnag, Kashmir valley show importance for physical fitness. present carried out 50 were selected randomly as subjects between age group 18- 25 yrs. They divided into two groups, Group-I (25 women’s) Group-II w...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the oxygen uptake (VO2) during walking at different speeds in people with multiple sclerosis is underestimated by available prediction equations and whether such underestimation relates to the validity of their assumptions. DESIGN Cross-sectional comparison. SUBJECTS Eighteen adults with MS and 18 adults without MS. METHODS VO2 was measured at rest and durin...

BACKGROUND There are approximately 400,000 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student athletes and 5-7 million high school student athletes competing each year. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the depression prevalence rate for young adults, which ranges from 10% to 85% across studies, is higher than that of other age groups. Given the relatively high p...

Title IX, included as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, is justly credited with creating a revolution for women and their access to sports. Yet the work of eradicating discrimination in sports is far from over. Commentators lament that progress has slowed and even stagnated in recent years as the percentage of women engaged in intercollegiate sports has remained steady rather than incre...

Executive Summary The Context of College Sports, 2011-12. During 2011, the landscape of intercollegiate athletics changed significantly, presenting COIA a new mix of challenges. In the area of improving the alignment of athletics with academics, the news was generally positive: significant new academic reforms were adopted by the NCAA, and evidence of the positive impact of earlier reforms bega...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the national prevalence of gambling problems and sports wagering among US college student-athletes. PARTICIPANTS A national sample of 20,739 student-athletes participated in the study. METHODS The authors used data from the first national survey of gambling among college athletes, conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. RESULTS Men (62.4%)...

This case report is written from the dual perspective of an elite male track athlete and the registered dietitian sports nutritionist who helped him recover from an eating disorder. The athlete was an international student who came from Great Britain to the United States to compete in track and cross country at the Division 1 collegiate level. Early in his freshman year, he developed an eating ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of sports injuries in college athletes from the same institution from 1993 to 2013. METHODS Athletes from 13 modalities were interviewed about the presence and type of injury, type of treatment and time of withdrawal, based on the questionnaire "Injury Surveillance System" (ISS). Data were analyzed with graphs and tables of injury prevalence by gender, age,...

PREAMBLE It is in the nature of medical practice that it is always likely to yield ethical problems because of the role that health, illness and injury play in the lives of patients. Sports physicians can fi nd themselves in particularly diffi cult (though not unique) contexts because of the role of the body in athletic performance, especially at elite and professional levels. Contrary to recen...