Athletics Therapy - July 2011 Archives
A new study has found that patients with mild traumatic brain injury exhibit abnormal functional connectivity in the thalamus, a centrally located relay station for transmitting information throughout the brain.
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A high school football player's broken neck -- from which he's recovered -- has yielded breakthrough biomechanical data on cervical spine injuries that could ultimately affect safety and equipment standards for athletes. The study appeared in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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While studying concussions in a high school football team, researchers captured the impact of an 18-year-old player who broke his neck during a head-down tackle in real-time.
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Vigorous sports activities, like basketball, during childhood and adolescence can cause abnormal development of the femur in young athletes, resulting in a deformed hip with reduced rotation and pain during movement. This may explain why athletes are more likely to develop osteoarthritis than more sedentary individuals, according to Dr. Klaus Siebenrock, from the University of Bern in Switzerland, and colleagues, whose work is published online in Springer's journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.
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In a new study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that Alzheimer's disease-like neurodegeneration may be initiated or accelerated following a single traumatic brain injury, even in young adults.
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Retired NFL football players are at higher risk for mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to Alzheimer's disease, a Loyola University Health System study has found.
A screening survey of 513 retired players and their wives found that 35 percent of the players had scores suggesting possible mild cognitive impairment.
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Vitamin D deficiency has been known to cause an assortment of health problems, a recent study being presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in San Diego today, suggests that lack of the vitamin might also increase the chance of muscle injuries in athletes, specifically NFL football players.
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Lace-up ankle braces can reduce the occurrence of acute ankle injuries in male and female high school basketball players, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in San Diego. The study demonstrated that the braces are effective for athletes both with and without a history of ankle injury.
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A study in the July 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep extension is beneficial to athletic performance, reaction time, vigor, fatigue and mood in collegiate basketball players. The study is the first to document sleep extension and the athletic performance of actively competing athletes.
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When women play football (soccer), the individual interruptions, for instance for substitutions or to cheer a goal, are a lot shorter than when men play. In particular after injuries men remain on the ground significantly longer. This is what sports scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen discovered after analyzing 56 football games and evaluating the place, time and duration of every single interruption of the game. In football, men stage themselves much more than women, the scientists conclude.
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Improvements in fuel cell design
Fish tale: New study evaluates antibiotic content in farm-raised fish
New 3-D display technology promises greater energy efficiency
Researchers break nano barrier to engineer the first protein microfiber
Structure of an iron-transport protein revealed
First step: From human cells to tissue-engineered esophagus
Autophagy helps fast track stem cell activation
Myelin vital for learning new practical skills
More physical activity improved school performance
Around the world in 400,000 years: The journey of the red fox
Engineering new vehicle powertrains
Active aging is much more than exercise
Study: New device can slow, reverse heart failure
Are the world's religions ready for ET?
Gut bacteria, artificial sweeteners and glucose intolerance
Recreating the stripe patterns found in animals by engineering synthetic gene networks
Laying the groundwork for data-driven science
Hold on, tiger mom
Nature's designs inspire research into new light-based technologies
Biologists delay the aging process by 'remote control'
Geography matters: Model predicts how local 'shocks' influence U.S. economy
Identified for the first time what kind of explosive has been used after the detonation
Copied from nature: Detecting software errors via genetic algorithms
A new way to diagnose brain damage from concussions, strokes and dementia
Where hockey and engineering collide: NJIT Highlanders join a pioneering concussion study
Do concussions have lingering cognitive, physical, and emotional effects?
WHACK! Study measures head blows in girls' lacrosse
High school football players show brain changes after one season