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Soccer Players Face Groin Injuries

...icine at the Telus Convention Center ,Professional soccer players who participated in a special preseason gr...ogram. The researchers enrolled 315 major league soccer players in a preseason groin injury prevention program to evaluate the effectiveness of the program....

Wear Headgear While Playing Soccer

...rom small scrapes to hospital emergencies, playing soccer can be painful, and even dangerous. To avoid head ...novative study was carried out just after the 2006 soccer season and included 268 adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years, from the Oakville Soccer Club. Although on...

Surgical Repair of Athletic Hernia Speeds Return to Play

... athletes who develop athletic hernias are hockey, soccer and football players. Sprinting, kicking, and skating are the activities that appear to be most problematic, explains Dr. Brunt. The athletes we see have usually undergone an extensive period of conservative management and having failed that, shoul...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...e highest risk for these injuries, particularly in soccer and basketball, Swanik said. The study is reported in the June edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine....

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

A new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nano-particle called buckyball has been identified. A research team has found that buckyball has the ability to block allergic reaction, making the progress of new therapies for allergy possible. Allergic disease is the sixth leading c...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

...unist leadership and celebrities such as Argentine soccer idol Diego Maradona. "In Cuba, the elite hospitals are as good as here, if not better," said Leonel Cordova, a Cuban doctor who works as a emergency room physician at Miami's Baptist Hospital. "The hospitals dedicated to the health of regular cit...

Does Amateur Boxing Cause Brain Damage?

...injury," said Hietala. The study was extended to soccer players heading the ball repeatedly from long and ...nal fluid were found. "This data shows headings in soccer is not associated with any neurochemical evidence of brain damage," said Hietala. The Swedish Medica...

Dynamic Sonography Accurate in Diagnosing Muscle Tears

...in Muscat, Oman . The study consisted of 50 male soccer players ranging from 20-30 years of age with muscular trauma in the thigh and calf. Dynamic sonography of both the affected and contralateral normal part was performed. Ultrasound is a rapid and radiation free imaging modality available in all sports...

Maradona to Stay in Hospital

Argentina's soccer legend Diego Maradona will stay in the Los Arcos sanatorium for some more days until his liver analyses //"are completely normal," his personal doctor Alfredo Cahe said. The clinic's report, where Maradona's is being treated since Friday, said the ...

AAO Urges Athletes to Wear Protective Eyewear

... paintball and water polo, as well as racquetball, soccer and downhill skiing. “Athletes can select from various types of lightweight and sturdy protective eyewear,” said M. Bowes Hamill, MD, associate professor of ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and clinical correspondent for the ...

Study Reveals 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer Injuries

...ldren participating in organized and// unorganized soccer leagues increases, so does the number of children ...cine. “The establishment of a national database of soccer participation and injury data is needed to better identify injury risks.” Boys accounted for more ...

Surfing Safer Than Soccer: Study

... found they are less prone to harm than collegiate soccer or basketball// players. Led by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, the findings of the study are published in the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine. "We found that competitive surfing has a re...

Keep Kids Active in the Holidays

...at promote fitness such as frisbees, cricket sets, soccer balls and tennis racquets are a great way to get kids interested in physical activity,” Dr Yong said. “Swimming or horse-riding lessons, bicycle outings, backyard cricket, or just taking the dog for a regular run around the local park are all health...

Keep Kids Active in the Holidays

...at promote fitness such as frisbees, cricket sets, soccer balls and tennis racquets are a great way to get kids interested in physical activity,” Dr Yong said. “Swimming or horse-riding lessons, bicycle outings, backyard cricket, or just taking the dog for a regular run around the local park are all healt...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...ers off the couch, but it's still not like playing soccer or jogging, Storch said. On the other hand, research has shown that Dance Dance Revolution, a game that requires players to dance on a mat to mimic moves they see on their TV, elicits the same level of motion in children as other forms of exercise....

Exercise may cut snoring in overweight kids

...rvised aerobic exercise - such as tag, basketball, soccer or jump rope - every day for about 13 weeks. Another group got 20 minutes of the same sort of daily aerobic exercise. For comparison, kids in the third group weren't assigned for any aerobic exercise but were free to continue their usual activities...

Kids in Sport—Great for Fitness, but Concern About Injurie

...y in boys, basketball and gymnastics in girls, and soccer in both sexes. The authors emphasize the need for ...a study of support versus pressure placed on young soccer players by parents and coaches. The results suggest that a "supportive, mastery-oriented" approach b...

Molecular Medicine And Diabetes

...Lilly has always been an active child, involved in soccer and ballet," said her mother, "but now she has the freedom to be a normal active child. She can go to sleepovers or playdates without Mom coming along to do blood sugar tests and operate her pump. She can eat snacks without counting carbohydrates or ...

Female Athletes at Risk of Stress Fractures

...fall sports – cross-country running, field hockey, soccer and volleyball. Women with "disordered eating," ...s having the highest percentage (94.4 percent) and soccer players the lowest (55.2 percent). All athletes were then monitored for leg pain during one intercol...

Virus Can Mutate lethally With Help Of Carbohydrates

...d that both viruses resemble a miniature, 20-sided soccer balls, and between them their outer protein shells were different by only 14 out of more than 500 amino acids. They also found that a couple of years back these normally mild MVMp viruses mutated quite suddenly and became harmful to the defenseless m...

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