Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007. / Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Division of Neuroscience and Biomedical Systems, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Abstract: Recovering from a sport injury can be physically and emotionally challenging for an adolescent athlete. Previous research indicates elevated levels of anxiety, stress, and depression following sport injuries. Providing effective social support following a sport injury has been found to influence an athletes' ability to cope with the experience of being injured and assist in rehabilitation adherence. The aim of the present investigation was to examine emotional disturbance following a sport injury in the adolescent population and determine the effects of social support provided by e-mentoring. The first phase of the research involved a descriptive data analysis to assess emotional disturbance of adolescent athletes ( n =9) sustaining an injury preventing sport participation for six weeks or greater. The Center of Epidemiological Studies on Depression (CES-D) and The Incredibly Short Profile of Mood States (IS-POMS) were administered and analyzed for elevated symptoms of emotional disturbance. The second phase of the research was an examination of social support provided by an e-mentor, a college age athlete with prior experience of a similar injury. Randomly selected participants ( n =4) were assigned an e-mentor for a six week rehabilitation phase of recovery. Three specific questions involving e-mentoring as social support were evaluated: (1) Do injured athletes demonstrate an increased positive awareness of injury rehabilitation and understanding of the injury with e-mentoring? Analysis of e-mentoring conversations indicated the adolescent injured athletes developed a greater awareness of their injury, the rehabilitation process, and the ability to share the physical experience. (2) Does e-mentoring influence emotional disturbance following a sport injury? Not all injured participants suffered emotional disturbance indicated through descriptive data analysis. However, examination of e-mentoring conversations indicated emotional support was provided from the e-mentor relationships. (3) Can the e-mentoring process provide a social support validating the injury and offer a positive experience? This investigation indicates e-mentoring provided physical, emotional and psychological support during a six week rehabilitation phase of an injury. Each injured athlete's interpretation and follow-up responses from the study suggest e-mentoring was a positive social support. Results from this research will raise awareness of emotional disturbance by an adolescent athlete following an injury and the manner in which social support can influence injury knowledge and rehabilitation adherence. The implications of e-mentoring suggest positive social support from an e-mentor can influence the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of an injured athlete affecting emotional recovery following a sport injury. / 2031-01-02

Very little information exists about the acute presentation of overuse injuries specific to cycling. Although there are studies, mainly in the form of surveys, that do detail the incidence and prevalence of overuse injuries in cyclists or triathletes, they all take place weeks or even months after events or focus on a 1 year injury history. (Weiss 1985, Korkia et al. 1994, Wilber 1995, Manninen and Kallinen 1996 and Salai et al. 1999) The aim of this study was to describe the historical data obtained when patients presented to the Student Chiropractic Sports Council at the Pick ‘n Pay 94.7 Cycle Challenge from the years 2002 to 2004. The focus of the study was on the profile of injuries with which patients presented. This was a descriptive study of historical data obtained by students treating at the Pick ‘n Pay 94.7 Cycle Challenge from the year 2002 to 2004. The data was acquired in the form of SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) notes held by the Student Chiropractic Sports Council. The results of this study showed that the most common location of complaints were the anterior and posterior thigh. Musculotendinous strains were by far the most predominant injury with the hamstring being involved more commonly (33.8%) than any other muscle. Overall 72.8% of patients were diagnosed with musculotendinous strains. Further, the results also showed that 55.8% of patients complained of eck or back pain and 59.7% were diagnosed with cervical facet joint, thoracic facet joint, lumbar facet joint or sacroiliac joint dysfunction. / Dr. S. Wilcox Dr M. Moodley

Title: Dynamic warm-up race for tennis players Subject: Male and female tennis players from tennis club Tj Lokomotiva Plzen Objective: Compare immediate influence of static and dynamic stretching on performance level during particular movement tests using device Myotest PRO Methods: To meet the objective quantitative comparison was used by performance parameters using load accelerometer. Quantitative stress parameters were evaluated for individual tests as the mean value from a large amount of repetition in individually evaluation. Results: Tests proved it is not possible to confirm acute positive influence of dynamic stretching on all assesed parameters in different tests. In terms of average values of different tests a noticeable lower limbs improvement has been emerged at two out of three tests. Keywords: dynamic stretching, warm up, sport, injuries, regeneration, tennis

Sports injury prevention has been the focus of a number of recent public health initiatives due to the acknowledgement that sports injuries are a significant public health problem in Australia Whilst Australian football is one of the most popular participation sports in the country, only very limited data is available about football injuries The majority of sports injury data available for this sport is from hospital emergency departments and elite-level injury surveillance Overall there is a paucity of data from treatment settings other than hospitals In particular, there is a lack of information about the injuries sustained by community-level, junior and recreational Australian football participants. One good potential source of football injury data is sports medicine clinics. Analysis of injury presentations to sports medicine clinics was undertaken to provide a detailed description of the epidemiology of Australian football injuries that present to this treatment setting and to determine the implications for injury prevention in this sport. In addition, the data from sports medicine clinics was compared with existing sources of Australian football injury data to determine how representative sports medicine clinic data is of other football injury data sources and to provide recommendations for future injury surveillance n Australian football. The results contained in this thesis show that Australian football is the sport most associated with injury presentation at sports medicine clinics. The majority of injured Australian football players presenting to sports medicine clinics are community-level or junior participants which suggests that sports medicine clinics are a good source of information on the injuries sustained by sub-elite football participants. Competition is the most common context in which Australian football players presenting to sports medicine clinics are injured. The major causes of injuries to Australian football players are being struck by another player, collisions and overuse. Injuries to Australian football players predominantly involve the lower limb. Adult players, players who stopped participating immediately after noticing their injury and players with overuse injuries are the most likely to sustain a more severe injury (i.e. more than four weeks before a full return to football participation and a moderate/significant amount of treatment expected). The least experienced players (five or less years of participation) are more likely to require a significant amount of treatment than the more experienced players. The prevention of lower limb injuries, injuries caused by body contact and injuries caused by overuse should be a priority for injury prevention research in Australian football due to the predominance of these injury types in the pattern of Australian football injuries Additionally, adult players, as a group, should be a focus of injury prevention activities in Australian football due to the association between age and injury severity. Overall, the pattern of Australian football injuries presenting to sports medicine clinics appears to be different than reported by club-based and hospital emergency department injury surveillance activities. However, detailed comparison of sports medicine clinic Australian football data with other sources of Australian football injury data is difficult due to the variable methods of collecting and reporting injury information used by hospital emergency department and club-based injury surveillance activities. The development of a standardised method for collecting and reporting injury data in Australian football is strongly recommended to overcome the existing limitations of data collection in this sport. In summary, sports medicine clinics provide a rich source of Australian football injury data, especially from the community and junior levels of participation. The inclusion of sports medicine clinic data provides a broader epidemiological picture of Australian football injuries. This broader understanding of the pattern of Australian football injuries provides a better basis for the development of injury prevention measures in this sport.

Syftet med studien var att belysa om och hur lärare i idrott och hälsa arbetar skadeförebyggande i undervisningen. Vi utgick från en kvalitativ metod och intervjuade åtta utbildade lärare med inriktning mot årskurs 6-9 i ämnet idrott och hälsa. Resultatet kopplas till Haddons (1980) strategier om skadeförebyggande arbete. Genom samtliga intervjuer framkom att lärare medvetet arbetar förebyggande med funktionella idrottsskador och integrerar det i undervisningen. Informanterna menar att det i första hand är aktiviteten som står i fokus och inte huruvida undervisningen sker inomhus eller utomhus men nämner att det finns skillnader i planering och utförande. Informanterna betonar vikten av att eleverna lär sig hur arbetet kring förebyggande av funktionella idrottsskador kan implementeras för att kunna använda kunskaperna för ett livslångt lärande. Baserat på Haddons (1980) strategier om skadeförebyggande arbete utformade vi en ny modell för att förebygga skador. Ur ett framtida perspektiv är vår önskan att lärare använder modellen till att strukturera och organisera en lärorik undervisning. / The purpose of this study was to elucidate whether and how teachers in physical education and health work to prevent injuries. We used qualitative method and interviewed eight educated teachers specializing in sixth to ninth grade in physical education and health. The results are based on Haddon´s (1980) strategies for injury prevention. The results showed that teachers consciously work to prevent functional sports injuries and integrate the preventional work into the education. The informants believe that it is primarily the activity that is focused on and not whether the education takes place indoors or outdoors, but mentions that there are differences regarding planning and execution. The informants emphasize the importance of students learning how to work preventively with functional sports injuries and how to use the knowledge for lifelong learning. Based on Haddon´s (1980) strategies we created a strategy model for injury prevention. From a future perspective, it is our desire that teachers use the model to structure and organize a worthwhile education.

Background: There is currently no standard method of diagnosing the presence or severity of concussion in acute primary care settings. This pilot project is part of a larger study to develop a Computerized Concussion Assessment Tool (CCAT). Methods: A prospective observational clinical study was conducted to explore the validity of the CCAT among patients presenting to the Emergency Department at Kingston General Hospital and at Hotel Dieu Hospital (Kingston, Ontario) with minor head injury. Twenty-two patients with concussion and eighteen patients with head injury (but not diagnosed with concussion) were recruited to the study. All participants completed a background questionnaire, several neurocognitive tests and the CCAT assessment. Performance on the CCAT was compared between these two groups. Data collected during the development phase of the CCAT from a Normal Volunteers group (n=68) were used in an additional comparison. CCAT Scores for Selective Attention, Divided Attention and Memory were compared with standard neurocognitive tests through correlational analyses. In addition, the validity and clinical yield of the CCAT were investigated relative to gold standard measures. Results: After adjustment for covariates, no statistically significant differences were found between the three participant groups for any of the three primary CCAT Scores (Selective Attention, Divided Attention and Memory). Correlational analyses showed that the CCAT Selective Attention Score and the CCAT Memory Score are moderately correlated with standard neurocognitive tests. There was no correlation observed for the CCAT Divided Attention Score and its associated neurocognitive test. Conclusion: The CCAT was unable to discriminate between concussed patients and non-concussed individuals. However, moderate correlations observed between the CCAT Scores for Memory and Selective Attention and their respective neurocognitive tests support a view that there should be optimism for the future development of the CCAT. Issues related to the feasibility of the study and its administration in the emergency department setting are discussed. / Thesis (Master, Community Health & Epidemiology) -- Queen's University, 2008-09-23 10:40:20.199

Mankštinimasis laisvalaikiu, norint įgyti ir palaikyti gerą fizinio pasirengimo bei svarbiausių organizmo sistemų funkcionavimo lygį, ganėtinai sunkus procesas (Muliarčikas ir kt., 2006). Sporto, susijusio su traumomis, paplitimas – linkęs didėti, nes vis daugiau žmonių visuomenėje yra įtraukiami į įvairią fizinio aktyvumo veiklą (Baarveld et al., 2008). Sportas yra pagrindinė, jaunų žmonių, traumų priežastis (Abernethy & Bleakley, 2007). Taip pat, šalyje vis daugiau kuriasi privačių sporto ir sveikatingumo centrų, sudarančių sąlygas mankštintis žmonėms (Jankauskienė, 2008). Tad, kuo daugiau treneris žinos apie traumas, būdingas visoms sporto šakoms, specifines jo sporto šakai, ir kaip šios traumos atsiranda, tuo labiau gebės padėti sportininkui jų išvengti (Bergeron & Green, 2000). Kadangi LKKA studentai yra būsimi treneriai bei sveikatingumo specialistai, todėl mums buvo įdomu sužinoti jų požiūrį į saugias treniruotes bei traumatizmo paplitimą, laisvalaikiu sportuojančio jaunimo tarpe. Todėl iškėlėme probleminius kausimus: 1) kokias traumas besimankštinant patiria studentai? 2) ar jie turi pakankamai žinių apie saugios treniruotės principus? / Exercising during free time is a quite difficult process when seeking to obtain and to hold good level of the physical preparation and well working the most important systems of the organism as well (Muliarcikas et al., 2006). The prevalance of the sport, related with injuries is liable to increase because more people in the society are involved into various physical activity (Baarveld et al., 2008). The sport is the main reason of the injuries for the young people (Abernethy & Bleakley, 2007). Also there are founding in the country more private sport‘s and wellness centres, making the conditions of the exercising for the people (Jankauskiene, 2008). So, if the trainer will know about the injuries, typical for all branches of the sport, and how these injuries are orginating, than he will be able to help more for the sportsmen to avoid them (Bergeron & Green, 2000). The students of LAPE are forthcoming trainers and the specialists of wellness so we were interested to find out their attitude towards safe trainings and the spread of the injuries among young people when going in for sport during free time. There we have raised the problematic questions: 1) What type of injuries have the students when exercising? 2) Do they have enough of knowledge about the principles of safe training?

Title: Incidence of injuries at top badminton players depending on physiotherapy and compensatory programmes Objectives: The main aim of this study is to find out what are the most frequent injuries at top badminton players taking part in the Czech extra league and in the first league in the season 2017/2018. Besides, the aim is also to find out if physiotherapy and compensatory programmes influence the decrease of the incidence of these injuries. And then, if badminton players devote thein time to compensatory programmes and use the possibilities of physiotherapy. Methods: For finding out the most frequent injuries at top badminton players we used a non-standardised questionnaire. The research had the character of a correlative - predilective study which studied the relationship between the incidence of injuries in badminton depending on physiotherapy and compensatory programmes. Results: The most frequent injuries among the Czech badminton players occur in the area of an ankle (47%), knee (34%) and shoulder joint (22%). According to the results, physiotherapy and compensatory programs proved a positive effect on reducing the incidence of injury. 25% of players working with a physiotherapist since childhood have never suffered injury. 68% of players who started to cooperate with a physiotherapist...

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