Sentences with phrase «studies on athletes»

Studies on athletes and non-athletes show that BCAAs help to reduce delayed onset muscle soreness in response to both resistance and endurance exercise.

Studies on athletes exercising to exhaustion show that beta alanine supplementation significantly increases time to exhaustion.

There are not many studies on athletes.

Not exact matches

I found one that said 6.5 hours or less is adequate, while another suggested up to ten (based on a study involving serious athletes).

The study of Moro and her colleagues compared two groups of resistance trained athletes, the one group used the time - restricted feeding while the other group was on a normal diet.

Nexira's latest clinical study * on 50 athletes, 25 to 45 years old, demonstrated that 500 mg / day of ViNitrox improves physical capabilities: increases physical training time by 10 % and delays the fatigue barrier by 13 %.

The result was that there was no statistical impact on the run, so the study concluded that «Omega 3 Chia loading appears a viable option for enhancing performance for endurance events lasting > 90 minutes and allows athletes to decrease their dietary intake of sugar while increasing their intake of Omega 3 fatty acids but offered no performance advantages.»

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

But some doctors and trainers believe it may predispose athletes to cramping and dehydration, and warn that no studies on its long - term effects have been conducted.

The University first notified the NCAA that it had identified potential academic issues involving student - athletes in African and Afro - American Studies courses on August 24, 2011.

Based on the joint review, UNC and the NCAA staff concluded there were no violations of current NCAA rules or student - athlete eligibility issues related to courses in African and Afro - American Studies.

A Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated NCAA academic rules when it made available deficient Department of African and Afro - American Studies «paper courses» to the general student body, including student - athletes.

Several research studies have shown preseason conditioning programs that include plyometrics, weight training, and education on jumping mechanics decrease the risk for knee injuries significantly, especially in adolescent female athletes.

As many repeat sprint ability studies show, focusing on improving the factors that improve an athletes repeat sprint ability (aerobic system) is actually more beneficial than just using sprint repeats (anaerobic system) in improving an athletes» ability to recover between high intensity efforts in their respective sports.

Taken together with an earlier study finding injuries to cheerleaders in the basing / spotting position most common, the researchers said that «bases are at particular risk of injury from contact with another athlete during stunts,» and that» [f] uture research should focus on identifying ways to better protect bases during stunts.»

Nearly a decade ago, the perils of overhydration during exercise were confirmed in two seminal studies performed on 488 Boston Marathon runners (8) and 2135 endurance athletes.

One Canadian study, for instance, found that physician observers in the stands identified concussed athletes at a rate seven times that of coaches and athletic trainers on the bench.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

In its 2012 Policy Statement on Baseball and Softball8, the AAP acknowledges the recent studies challenging the theory that the curveball and slider are stressful to the young elbow, but, on the basis of other studies showing increased injury among those who throw curve balls and sliders at early ages, continues to recommend that introduction of the curve ball be delayed until after age 14, or when pubertal development has advanced to the stage when the athlete has started to shave, and that sliders not be thrown until age 16.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

Echlin's comments are echoed in the findings of a 2013 quantitative study focusing on what drives the attitudes of high school athletes [1] towards reporting concussions («attitude study»), which found that coaches and teammates are the strongest influences on an athlete's intention to report concussion.

The problem, as Paul S. Echlin, M.D. of the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and author of the Canadian study, points out, is that the «young athlete is often caught between competing demands of the adults around them» and «sometimes make decisions based on the adult whom they perceive to have the most influence on their success, and also whom they wish most to please for a variety of reasons.»

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

Media reports on the finding by Dr. McKee and her colleagues in a new study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that 110 of 111 deceased NFL players her group had autopsied had CTE will undoubtedly take the level of fear among sports parents and present and former athletes in all contact and collision sports alike to even more frenzied heights.

When the SCAT2 was issued, superseding the original SCAT published in 2005, the authors recommended continued reliance on the SAC until prospective studies could be conducted to assess the SCAT2's sensitivity (how good the test is in identifying athletes with concussion; for example, a test which is very sensitive will have few false negatives, rarely missing those later found to have concussion) and specificity (a test with high specificity will have few false positives, rarely mis - classifying people without concussion as having concussion).

A study of a large group of teens, published in the journal Pediatrics, reported that certain muscle - enhancing behaviors by teens may be on the rise, particularly among groups like athletes and kids who are overweight.

The drink that researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland say helped 12 - to 14 - year - old athletes in the study play, on average, 24 % longer before exhaustion during stop - and - go, high intensity team sports was a solution containing 6 and 8 % carbohydrates and electrolytes; in other words, a sports drink.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

Depending on athletes to admit to experiencing concussion symptoms doesn't work due to chronic under - reporting.1 Likewise, studies show that coaches and athletic trainers can't be counted on to reliably identify athletes exhibiting signs of possible concussion for screening on the sports sidelines, especially since only 5 to 10 % of concussions involve a loss of consciousness and the onset of concussions symptoms is often delayed, especially in younger athletes.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

To provide some insight on female concussions, we launched a research study in October 2013, which focused on female athletes from all sports, and their past and present experiences with concussions.

On the other hand in a 2009 study Kremmier found that the lactate threshold of athletes improved when wearing compression socks while running.

Dr. Katherine Tamminen, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and associate editor of the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, was the lead author of a study on helping adolescent athletes cope with stress.

To provide athletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing head trauma.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

All too often, even hits hard enough to cause an athlete to display signs of concussion that can be observed by sideline personnel, or which cause the athlete to experience symptoms of concussion, go undetected, either because the signs are too subtle to be seen or are simply missed by sideline personnel or because the athlete fails to report them (a 2010 study [7] of Canadian junior hockey players, for example, found that, for every concussion self - reported by the players or identified by the coaches or on - the - bench medical personnel, physician observers in the stands picked up seven)- a persistent problem that, given the «warrior» mentality and culture of contact and collision sports, is not going to go away any time soon, if ever.

In a March 11, 2015 «Well» blog New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds, reported on a new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five wit

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

An easy, two - minute vision test administered on the sidelines after a young athlete has hit his or her head can help to reliably determine whether the athlete has sustained a concussion, according to a new study of student athletes, some as young as 5.

Studies have shown a relationship between postconcussion activity level and performance on neurocognitive tests, with athletes engaging in the highest levels of activity performing the worst on such tests.

Dr. Katherine Tamminen was the lead author of a study on helping adolescent athletes cope with stress.

However, studies of youth athletes who specialize in just one sport have given doctors some insight on what constitutes an unsafe amount of sports practice.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to the two studies published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to two studies published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

He was co-author of a recent study that looked at the concussion education program for six Division 1 men's hockey teams — and that found a wide variation on what colleges were telling athletes.

«Our study shows that an easy to administer vision test is a simple, effective tool that empowers parents, coaches, trainers — and even physicians — on the sidelines to have a protocol for deciding if an athlete should be removed from play.»

All the studies were conducted on athletes, and all concussions were defined by a witnessed or reported blow to the head with neurological symptoms.