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According to a recent study conducted in Oulu, Finland, even a short reduction in daily time spent in lying or sitting could have several cardiometabolic health benefits for adults. In this study, the beneficial effects could ...
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Doctors will soon be able to use fat to diagnose musculoskeletal disease within seconds and predict the risk of falls and fractures in older people, thanks to a world-leading tool developed by Melbourne researchers.
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The toe of most shoes, especially sneakers, bends ever so slightly upward. While that curve, called a toe spring, can make stepping more comfortable and easier, it may also weaken feet and potentially open them up to some ...
Sep 17, 2020
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Tearing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) can be an excruciatingly painful injury. Nearly 50 percent of these patients will develop a secondary form of osteoarthritis, deemed post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA).
Sep 17, 2020
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Repetitive head impacts are associated with development of the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Some individuals diagnosed with CTE after death were reported to suffer from sleep dysfunction, ...
Sep 17, 2020
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New advice to help healthcare professionals promote exercise as a way of improving immunity has been launched by medical experts and exercise scientists.
Sep 17, 2020
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An extract of Curcuma longa (CL), commonly known as turmeric, was found to be more effective than placebo for reducing knee pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis. However, CL did not affect structural aspects of knee ...
Sep 15, 2020
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A recent study from the Henry Ford Sports Medicine Research team suggests that high school athletes competing, not only in football, but in soccer, hockey, basketball, swimming, cheerleading and other sports are not only ...
Sep 15, 2020
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Why does exercise training make you more fit? It's well established that exercising enhances insulin sensitivity and improves our metabolism that, in turn, increases exercise performance. But the biological mechanisms underlying ...
Sep 14, 2020
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Hundreds of millions of people of all ages worldwide live with two or more chronic conditions—commonly defined as multimorbidity. Those living with it are found to have poorer physical and mental health, higher risk of ...
Sep 14, 2020
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Allowing yourself a few minutes of downtime significantly boosts mental and physical relaxation. Research by psychologists at the University of Konstanz observed higher levels of psychological and physiological relaxation ...
Sep 11, 2020
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Jules Heningburg was sprinting up hills and playing pick-up basketball about a month after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
Sep 11, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Longer exposure to playing football during childhood and adolescence appears to be unrelated to clinical recovery following college football concussion, according to a study published online Sept. 9 in Neurology.
Sep 10, 2020
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With life expectancy increasing, age-related diseases are also on the rise, including sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass due to aging. Researchers from the University of Basel's Biozentrum have demonstrated that a well-known ...
Sep 09, 2020
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A new study of NCAA football players has found that the age they first started playing tackle football may not affect their recovery after a concussion. The study is published in the September 9, 2020, online issue of Neurology.
Sep 09, 2020
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In obese individuals, endurance exercise improves fitness and increases the number of mitochondria and cellular respiration in skeletal muscles. However, the intervention has no effect on cellular respiration in adipose tissue. ...
Sep 09, 2020
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A new study from North Carolina State University reports that the rapidly growing field of collegiate esports is effectively becoming a two-tiered system, with club-level programs that are often supportive of gender diversity ...
Sep 09, 2020
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An Imperial graduate has designed wearable technology inspired by protective structures found in the animal world to protect athletes from injury.
Sep 09, 2020
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Public health responses to the pandemic have focused on dealing with the coronavirus, but attention is now turning to the growing list of negative effects of COVID-19 containment measures. One such problem is the low level ...
Sep 08, 2020
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A recent study by sport analytics professors shows the Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM) statistic used to evaluate the performance of NBA players is sometimes misleading because it does not accurately account for the quality of ...
Sep 07, 2020
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