Thursday, June 26, 2008
Increased knee-laxity measures may contribute to increased risk of anterior cruciate ligament injury.
Strength training as a single intervention method may not be sufficient to reduce the risk of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury in female recreational athletes.
Female soccer and basketball players had an anterior cruciate ligament injury rate seven times that [...]
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Stress fracture is a common musculoskeletal problem affecting athletes and soldiers. Repetitive high bone strains and strain rates are considered to be its etiology. The strain level necessary to cause fatigue failure of bone ex vivo is higher than the strains recorded in humans during vigorous physical activity.
A study was performed [...]
Friday, June 13, 2008
A study was performed to describe the treatment of knee pain in older adults in primary care and to compare reported practice with published evidence. A semi-structured interview was performed of older adults with knee pain about their use of 26 interventions for knee pain.
201 adults were interviewed. A median of six [...]
Sunday, June 08, 2008
AIM: There is an emerging body of knowledge indicating static stretching (SS) acutely and adversely affects muscle performance. The purpose of this study was to determine if SS using more representative stretch durations affects muscle performance and to establish if changes in muscle performance were influenced by the duration of stretch.
METHODS: [...]
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