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Detraining – why a change really is better than a rest
The old adage that ‘what goes up must come down’ applies just as much to fitness as to gravity. But although athletes have come to accept detraining as a depressing but inevitable consequence of an injury or illness, few are aware of just how profound and rapid these changes are. And according to Richard Godfrey, new evidence suggests that the magnitude of these changes means that elite athletes need to plan their return to full fitness after a lay-off very carefully indeed.
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 | Posted On: | Friday, 1st December '06, 4:54pm |
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Ankle Sprain - Injury management: How to heal a serious ankle sprain
What is the most common sporting injury? Chances are that anyone who has done any kind of weight-bearing sport has had it happen: a sprained ankle. But there is a vast difference between mild sprains and moderate to severe lateral ankle sprains which actually damage the ankle.
Incorrect management can easily turn a recovery time from 3-4 months into a 12-18 month epic. I’ve seen it happen and made the mistakes myself as a younger clinician!
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 28th November '06, 5:22pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Female Triad: Bone recovery after female athlete triad
Women whose bone development is interrupted in adolescence by the so-called ‘female athlete triad’ of disordered eating, delayed menstruation and osteoporosis can still catch up on bone growth well into their twenties.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 24th November '06, 12:28pm |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports and Sports Medicine And Treatment |
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Who, how and what gets injured?
Snowboarding
Forward falls commonly result in shoulder-girdle injuries: anything from rotator cuff (shoulder) strains to collar bone fractures. Falls backwards more commonly produce wrist fractures or strains, spinal injuries (low back and/or neck area) and head injuries, usually from a direct blow to the back of the skull during a fall. All can happen at any ability level.
Skiing
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| Posted On: | Friday, 10th November '06, 2:25pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment, Sports Rehabilitation and Training Techniques |
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Marathon Tips
Dear editor
As a 56 year old recreational athlete for some 30 years with a marathon personal best of 2hrs 44min and a personal worst of 3hrs 29min, I found Sean Fyfe’s tale of marathon woe somewhat amusing (SIB50, June 2005). An unimaginable number of athletes have run good marathons over careers spanning decades without knowing what hyponatraemia is.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 8th November '06, 5:55pm |
| Tags: | Endurance, Running, Sports and Training Techniques |
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Dumbbell Exercises : Supine dumbbell straight arm pullover
Muscles involved: sides of upper back (latissimus dorsi), backs of shoulders (posterior deltoids), backs of upper arms (triceps).
Joint motion: shoulder extension.
Sports applicability: sports involving an overhead hitting/throwing motion, eg tennis, the javelin and football throw-in.
Conditioning benefits
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| Posted On: | Monday, 6th November '06, 7:30pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Strength and Training Techniques |
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Female Boxing Injuries: Female boxing safer than expected
Female boxing is no more dangerous than any other female impact sports. That is the encouraging conclusion of a new survey from Italy, where female boxing has been permitted since 2001 but is still regarded as ‘an experimental sport’ (‘Medical survey of female boxing in Italy in 2002-2003’, Br J Sports Med 2005;39:532-536).
The survey of all female boxing competitions in Italy between January 2002 and October 2003 was made up of two elements:
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| Posted On: | Friday, 3rd November '06, 5:14pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Research Findings and Sports |
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Arm Strength: Transfer of arm strength works one way only
The transfer of strength from a trained limb to an untrained one is a well-known phenomenon, thought to be due to neural adaptations, and offers potential benefits for athletes seeking to maintain strength in an injured limb while it is out of action. But does this apparently miraculous transfer of strength affect both sides equally? Probably not, according to a team of Canadian researchers, who studied transfer of arm strength in right-handed people and found it operated only from right to left – ie from the dominant to the non-dominant side.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 1st November '06, 11:56am |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports and Strength |
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Stitch Pain: New light on stitch
A new Australian study offers valuable insights into the common but potentially disabling sport-related condition known colloquially as ‘stitch’ (‘Epidemiology of exercise-related transient abdominal pain at the Sydney City to Surf community run’, J Sci Med Sport 2005; 8:2:152-162).
In a previous study – the largest published on the subject – the researchers found that 60% of runners had experienced exercise-related transient abdominal pain (ETAP) while running within the past year, but this was a retrospective study based on recall.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 27th October '06, 12:59pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Research Findings and Sports |
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Record-breaking preditcions : What are the absolute limits to human performance levels?
Everything’s up to date in Kansas City – they’ve gone about as far as they can go!
The song in question, in a musical set in the 1890s, was actually written a hundred years later; the irony lay in the hindsight. In each generation over the last century we have seen new records set, with performances once regarded as superhuman becoming routine and unremarkable, writes Bruce Tulloh.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 25th October '06, 4:59pm |
| Tags: | Cycling, Research Findings, Running and Sports |
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Sports Injury Pain : Pain and brain – a revolutionary approach to chronic injury
Injury and pain are a competitive athlete’s worst nightmare, scuppering even the best-laid training plans. And when injuries become chronic, they can destroy confidence and even end athletic careers. But a revolution is taking place in our understanding of pain, which has profound implications for the treatment and rehabilitation of many chronic injuries. As Stephen Robson and Louis Gifford explain in the first of a two-part series, it’s time to throw away many of our existing preconceptions about pain and injury.
At a glance:
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 19th October '06, 4:45pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Research Findings, Sports and Sports Medicine And Treatment |
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Creatine: is it really safe for long-term use?
Creatine is the number one choice of sports supplement for athletes at all levels – and with good reason. Unlike most products that compete for space on the shelves of health food stores up and down the country, creatine does precisely what it says on the tin: namely boost the body’s phosphocreatine energy system, thereby enhancing short-term, high intensity anaerobic efforts. But, while there are few, if any, remaining concerns about short-term use, there are still no guarantees of long-term safety, writes Andrew Hamilton.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 13th October '06, 4:35pm |
| Tags: | Nutrition, Research Findings, Sports and Supplements |
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Pregnancy Weight Training: Pregnancy, strength and fitness
The theory that pregnancy, being a form of graduated weight training, actually improves subsequent performance in women has been dealt a blow by a major new US study suggesting that both fitness and strength decline significantly during pregnancy and are still not fully restored six months after birth.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 11th October '06, 12:18pm |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports and Strength |
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Resistance Training Exercise : For that extra edge all you need is variety
Most athletes in search of that elusive extra edge in strength and power look to resistance training in one form or another. Often they think they need a new exercise to sharpen them up. But what they may not realise is that considerable improvements in training outcomes can be achieved without changing the content of their routines but simply by altering the sequence of exercises and varying the rest times between exercises.
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| Posted On: | Monday, 9th October '06, 5:22pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Strength and Training Techniques |
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Stress fractures and genes
A stress fracture is a partial or complete fracture of a bone, not associated with a significant traumatic injury, and resulting from the bone’s inability to withstand stress applied in a rhythmic, repeated manner. It is one of the most common and potentially serious overuse injuries.
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 5th October '06, 10:11am |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Caffeine dehydration : Caffeine and alcohol – just how dehydrating are they?
Do you do drugs? Think long and hard before you answer, because the answer is, very probably, yes! Like it or not, alcohol and caffeine are drugs that most of us consume regularly as part of our diet. Like all drugs, they have side effects, one of which is common to both – a ‘diuretic’ (waterloss) effect. But how strong is this effect, and is a diet containing these drugs detrimental to the goal of optimum hydration?
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 3rd October '06, 10:05am |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports and Supplements |
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Growing Pains
‘Diseases or complaints of growth’ were first described by Duchamp (1) in his treatise ‘Maladies de la Croissance’ in 1832. These aches and pains were initially thought to be manifestations of rheumatic fever requiring prolonged bed rest, a notion that gave way to the ‘fatigue theory’ proposed by Bennie in 1894 (2). This declared that ‘little legs have performed an unusual amount of work during the day’ and may therefore hurt at the end of the day.
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| Posted On: | Monday, 25th September '06, 5:42pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Research Findings, Sports and Sports Medicine And Treatment |
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The glycaemic index: how athletes can make it work for them
Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the last 15 years, you’ll already be aware that carbohydrate nutrition is just about the most important weapon in your nutritional toolbox for maximising sport performance. In recent years, the ‘glycaemic index’ – the rate of carbohydrate energy release – has become an important consideration for athletes seeking to consume the ‘right’ type of carbohydrate for a particular mode of training or recovery. But why is this index important and how can you use it to plan your carbohydrate intake?
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 21st September '06, 3:15pm |
| Tags: | Nutrition, Research Findings and Sports |
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Sports drinks and teeth
There is no doubt that properly formulated fluid and/or carbohydrate drinks can enhance sports performance. However, more recent research has discovered that regular sports drinks users may be putting their dental health at risk; in particular the protective tooth enamel has been found to erode 30 times faster with regular usage of sports drinks (which tend to be quite acidic) by comparison with plain water!
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 19th September '06, 11:09am |
| Tags: | Nutrition, Research Findings, Sports and Supplements |
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Vibration Platform: New training aids Good vibrations?
Move over, wobble board – the vibration platform is here. In the past 10 years there has been an increasing interest in the somewhat strange concept of vibration training and its potentially positive impact on athletic performance. Can simply standing on a vibrating platform improve one’s strength, power and flexibility? Is this a gimmick providing a short-term fix, or can athletes and coaches expect to see some valuable long-term training adaptations? Is vibration a useful rehab tool? Here’s the balance of research to date.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 13th September '06, 3:27pm |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports, Sports Rehabilitation, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Zinc & Performance: Why athletes may need more zinc in their diet
Although it plays a role in protein metabolism and growth, zinc has never really been associated with enhanced aerobic performance. But all that may be about to change following a recent American study carried out for the US Department of Agriculture.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 8th September '06, 12:55pm |
| Tags: | Nutrition, Sports and Supplements |
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Maltodextrin-plus-fructose Drink: Carb combo drink produces most energy
UK researchers have found that ingesting large amounts of two simple carbohydrates during prolonged cycling exercise allows for significantly greater conversion of carbohydrate to energy than ingesting one alone.
A drink containing maltodextrin and fructose, providing the same amount of energy as the first drink;
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 6th September '06, 9:26am |
| Tags: | Cycling, Nutrition, Research Findings, Sports and Supplements |
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Cycle Injury overview
In 2003 I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to venture into the Pyrenees mountain range in the south of France to witness the penultimate mountain stage of the Tour de France. It was one of the greatest stages in recent years, when Lance Armstrong fell off his bike in the final ascent only to remount, attack and put the winning time on Jan Ullrich to clinch his fifth consecutive tour victory. I had watched the tour on TV before, but it wasn’t until I was on the mountain that I could grasp the passion and fanaticism surrounding the sport of cycling.
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 31st August '06, 10:03am |
| Tags: | Cycling, Sports, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Warm Up Activity : The dynamic alternative to static stretching
Strength and conditioning coaches and trainers are engaged in a constant search for the best ways to improve sport performance. All things being equal, a bigger, faster, stronger, more conditioned athlete will rule supreme on the playing court or field.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 16th August '06, 12:15pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Posterior Cruciate Ligament
It took Ryan Shulman 10 years to discover he had damaged his knee
My visit to the Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic was the culmination of more than 18 months of physiotherapy, general practice and orthopaedic reviews. I had developed an interest in triathlon and wanted to get serious about training, particularly some longer distance running. However, after increasing my training load and intensity I had started to develop a vague pain along the antero-medial joint line in my right knee, as well as spasm in my right popliteus muscle.
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 3rd August '06, 5:00pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Cyclists Warm Up
A new UK study has shown that cycling performance is boosted by prior moderate and heavy exercise, but not by sprint exercise.
The researchers set out to determine the effects of three different warm-up regimes on cycling work output during a seven- minute performance trial. Although it is widely accepted that prior warm-up exercise should be performed before the main bout of sporting or exercise activity, previous studies have tended to focus on the physiological effects of warm-up rather than on its potential performance benefit.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 28th July '06, 5:27pm |
| Tags: | Cycling, Research Findings, Sports, Sports Rehabilitation, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Articular cartilage
Articular cartilage covers the ends of long bones. This highly specialised tissue is principally made up of hyaline cartilage secreted by chondrocytes. Because of the poor blood supply at the ends of the bones, these cells work in a low oxygen environment and are vulnerable to injury.
Hyaline cartilage has a complex structure arranged in layers. This allows it to carry out its functions of load-bearing and reducing friction, but it means the task of restoring this structure after injury is particularly difficult.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 26th July '06, 1:02pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Pre-competition exercise: does timing matter?
Cycling time triallists gain a significant performance advantage if, on the day before competition, they train at exactly the same time as the competition is scheduled to start. That is the important conclusion of a new study from the UK.
Eight male recreational cyclists completed two separate 16.1k time trials on cycle ergometers at 7am. On the day before one of the trials, they performed a submaximal workout at 60% VO2max for 30 minutes at 7am; on the day before the other, they performed exactly the same workout at 12 noon.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 18th July '06, 4:26pm |
| Tags: | Cycling, Endurance, Research Findings, Sports, Strength and Training Techniques |
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Marathon Cramp: A marathon to remember
Last November I set out to achieve one of those lifetime goals: to complete a marathon in less than three hours, considered by many to be the Holy Grail of social distance running. What better occasion to do it than at the 25th anniversary of probably the greatest race in the world, the London Marathon.
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 13th July '06, 1:58pm |
| Tags: | Endurance, Injury, Running, Sports, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Public Sports Injury Treatment
If ever I had been in doubt about the need for the public health service to integrate sports and exercise medicine into mainstream practice, my recent visit to my local A&E (rated excellent) clinched the argument for me. Not exactly a sporting injury, I had been floored by an out-of-control teenager careering downhill on a mountain bike (minus brakes). In need of an emergency stop, he decided I was his best bet – not a bad choice, given the alternatives of preschool kids and seniors bearing white canes…
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 6th July '06, 12:32pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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ACL surgery
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an intra-articular knee ligament. It is made up of two bundles of fibrous tissue, each 3.5cm long, which act to maintain anatomical relations between the femur and tibia throughout the range of knee motion.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 5th July '06, 2:45pm |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Peak Performance Jargonbuster
Amino acid pool
A collective term for the ‘free’ amino acids (ie not forming proteins) circulating around the body and available for use by the body
Muscle transporter protein
A protein molecule that sits in the cell wall and facilitates the passage of substances in or out of the cell
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 4th July '06, 4:35pm |
| Tags: | Research Findings and Sports |
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hip exercises
Hip problems are sometimes clear-cut, as in when, for instance, the client presents with local groin pain. But the hip joint can also be just one part of a bigger puzzle in a complex lower limb problem, as its functioning has such important consequences both for the lumbo-sacral region and for the knee and ankle.
Scott Smith explains the concept of a ‘rotator cuff’ of the hip and why the right degree of stability matters.
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| Posted On: | Monday, 3rd July '06, 12:25pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Sports drinks or water : what is the best choice for sports performers?
What does the term sports nutrition conjure up in your mind? Carbohydrate and protein? Vitamins and minerals? Or maybe the more exotic ergogenic aids like creatine? Whatever springs to mind, I bet it isn’t water. Yet water is of supreme, overriding importance to both your health and performance.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 30th June '06, 11:19am |
| Tags: | Nutrition, Research Findings, Sports and Supplements |
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Tennis Injuries overview
Tennis is a sport that places extremely high demands on the structural integrity of the body’s joints. Athletes have to perform repetitive, asymmetrical and technically challenging movements at high speed in dynamic settings, often at the limits of their physical and mental endurance. It can become a daily battle against chronic injuries, which too often results in premature departure from the sport. Sean Fyfe reviews the research and offers practical advice.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 28th June '06, 2:43pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports and Sports Rehabilitation |
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How To Train For A Triathlon : Your complete strength and conditioning programme
Triathlon is a demanding multi-discipline sport, calling for high levels of endurance in the water, on a bike and on the road. And, while triathletes spend most of their time swimming, cycling and running, they also need a supplementary resistance-based conditioning programme to enhance overall performance. In this article, Raphael Brandon sets out a programme of strength and conditioning exercises suitable for serious competitive triathletes.
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| Posted On: | Thursday, 22nd June '06, 2:04pm |
| Tags: | Endurance, Sports, Strength, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Dental Injuries : On-the-spot tips for dealing with the fallout from a kick in the teeth
Dental injury is a distressing event, often causing psychological as well as physical problems, since it normally involves the highly visible front teeth. And it is particularly common among athletes, with sports-related dental injuries said to account for nearly 40% of the total, writes John Banky
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 20th June '06, 2:32pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Metatarsal Fractures: How to fix the fifth metatarsal
Rohit Madhav and Fares Haddad summarise the latest consensus on how to treat this troublesome and topical injury.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 13th June '06, 1:14pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Sports Rehabilitation and Strength |
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Ankle Sprain: Injury management How to heal a serious ankle sprain
Ulrik Larsen offers guidance on how to spot and treat the kind of lateral ankle damage that can ruin an athletic career.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 6th June '06, 2:51pm |
| Tags: | Injury, Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Sports drinks and teeth
There is no doubt that properly formulated fluid and/or carbohydrate drinks can enhance sports performance (see PP212, Hydration Special). However, more recent research has discovered that regular sports drinks users may be putting their dental health at risk; in particular the protective tooth enamel has been found to erode 30 times faster with regular usage of sports drinks (which tend to be quite acidic) by comparison with plain water!
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 31st May '06, 4:31pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Supplements and Training Techniques |
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Deep Water Running : Getting into deep water – why it can be good for fitness
Everyone knows that swimming can be a good cross-training strategy for building fitness, or maintaining it when injury strikes. But according to Colin Brow and David Murrie, a more effective training protocol during high- intensity, competitive periods of the season or as part of an injury rehabilitation programme is deep water running.
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 30th May '06, 3:00pm |
| Tags: | Endurance, Sports, Strength, Training Techniques and Warm Up |
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Standing Calf Raise : Standing machine calf raise
Exercise of the Week - Standing Calf Raise.
This week in exercise of the week we look at the Standing Calf Raise.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 26th May '06, 10:34am |
| Tags: | Sports, Strength and Training Techniques |
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Antioxidant Diets: Low antioxidant diets may hamper fuel delivery
Although the jury’s still out on the pros and cons of antioxidant supplementation for athletes, a consensus of scientific opinion is beginning to form around the notion that low antioxidant intakes are undesirable for various reasons.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 19th May '06, 3:04pm |
| Tags: | Research Findings, Sports, Supplements and Training Techniques |
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Detraining risk for elite athletes
A stark warning about the effects of a long period of inactivity on physical fitness comes from a UK case study of an Olympic rower, who took more than 20 weeks to fully recover his fitness after an eight-week lay-off
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 17th May '06, 2:15pm |
| Tags: | Sports |
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Mental Effects Of Exercise: Prolonged exercise and mental function
The physiological effects of prolonged exercise – a decrease in performance after two hours, even in well-trained subjects – are well understood by sports scientists. Much less is known, though, about its effects on cognitive (mental) performance.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 12th May '06, 9:17am |
| Tags: | Sports |
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Soccer Head Injury : new concerns about heading
Concerns about the risks of heading in football just won’t go away. In the past these have focused on the possibility of chronic brain injury, but a recent study from Italy poses a different scenario: that footballers are at increased risk of suffering motor neurone disease (MND), a progressive, incurable and usually fatal degenerative disorder of the nervous system
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 3rd May '06, 9:55am |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Gluteus Medius: Weak buttocks ruin the runner
Gluteus medius weakness, Sean Fyfe says, is a likely culprit in many overuse injuries
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| Posted On: | Tuesday, 2nd May '06, 2:35pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Sports Rehabilitation |
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Downward Dog
The downward dog is one of the most widely recognised yoga poses and has much to offer any athlete, especially those involved in running or high- impact sports, where tight hamstrings and spinal tension can impede performance. However, as well as stretching and strengthening the body, this pose can also be used to rejuvenate and invigorate the body, as part of your warm-up and cool-down, and for recovery between training sessions.
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| Posted On: | Friday, 28th April '06, 12:04pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Strength and Warm Up |
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Backwards Running : The benefits of training backwards
Backward walking and running is recommended for the rehabilitation of overuse injuries and knee joint problems because it increases the strength and power of the quadriceps muscles while reducing compressive forces at the knee joint, preventing overstretching of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and decreasing force absorption.
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| Posted On: | Wednesday, 26th April '06, 2:41pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment, Sports Rehabilitation and Training Techniques |
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Stress & Overtraining : Strategies to ward off overtraining by dealing with stress from all sources
The simple physiological equation employed by most coaches is this: training-plus-recovery equals-adaptation. But while there are literally hundreds of ways of measuring training (eg sets, reps, load, volume, time and intensity) and a similar number for measuring adaptation (game performance, lactate threshold, heart rate, speed, power etc), how many coaches measure or prescribe a recovery programme, asks James Marshall.
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| Posted On: | Monday, 24th April '06, 2:37pm |
| Tags: | Sports, Sports Medicine And Treatment and Training Techniques |
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