Sentences with phrase «viewed by the athlete»

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The new odor, a commingling of the vapors of turpentine, rotten eggs and old oysters, comes from dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, the controversial and often illegally used drug hailed by a growing legion of amateur and professional athletes who view it as a panacea for many ills ranging from sprained ankles to tendinitis and ripped muscles.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

Given that concussion risk is influenced by many factors in addition to impact biomechanics, viewing an athlete's head - impact data may provide context for the clinician working on the sidelines, but impact sensors should not replace clinical judgment.

While neurocognitive testing is widely viewed as the cornerstone of the concussion - assement process, when used in isolation, it should never be used by itself, but rather in conjunction with symptom and other (e.g. balance, visual) assessments in diagnosing concussion and the readiness of an athlete for return to play after completing a symptom - limited graduated exercise protocol;

While I will not be able to participate in the roundtable, it is probably just as well because, with MomsTEAM Institute's SmartTeams Play Safe summit in Boston in my rear view mirror, I am devoting all my energies the rest of the fall sports season to working with an incredibly talented and dedicated group of certified athletic trainers at the grass roots level on our SmartTeamTM pilot program, which is helping parents, coaches, administrators, and more than 800 athletes in youth football programs in six states play safe by being smart.

Give in to the scenic views of Makati by tagging along your hook up partner on a mixed exercise with the athletes of Miami dragon club as well as the rowing club.

Young athletes will be enthralled by this realistic, personal view of the U.S. swimming team's journey to the 2000 Olympics: the dreams, the training, the toll, the failure, and the success.

PUBLICATIONS 2015 Pelé: Art, Life, Football exhibition catalogue with essays: Brian Winter, «Why Pelé Still Inspires Us»; Dr. Bernard Vere, «Andy Warhol, Pelé, and the «Athletes» Series» (Halcyon Gallery) 2015 Overlapping View, exhibition catalogue with Introduction by Francesca Gavin (Halcyon Gallery) 2014 An American Trilogy, published by Halcyon Gallery, London

Hidden from view, often under the cover of darkness, it is they who remove the debris left behind by the much vaunted 12th Man after passionate celebrations of the city's athletes.