Archive for the ‘Sports Medicine / Fitness’ Category
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Although trampolines were once found only in gymnasiums, in recent years, it has become increasingly common to see kids using them in their own backyards. While athletes use trampolines under the supervision of coaches and other experts, home users rarely take such precautions, leaving themselves at risk for injury. The ...
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
To paraphrase Lord Tennyson, in the spring, a young person's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of…baseball. For generations, baseball has been an American tradition, and also a great way for kids to get some exercise along with their first taste of competitive sports.
Young ballplayers, however, can easily become injured. According ...
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
The Vision Care Institute™, LLC, a Johnson & Johnson company today announced it will offer its new AchieveVision™ Program to Olympic athletes and hopefuls. The program will assess and help optimize athletes' visual skills in preparation for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Members of the men's and women's U.S. ...
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Every year, Fred Mueller compiles a sports list, but unlike popular pre-season picks or a glamorous hot-recruit sheet, nobody envies him this task. Some years the list is longer than others, but, Mueller said, there's no reason any kid should be on it.
It's a list of boys who died playing ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
All healthy adults ages 18 to 65 years need moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity for at least 30 minutes on five days each week or vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity for at least 20 minutes on three days each week, according to updated physical activity guidelines released by the American College of ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Sitting for 20 minutes between 30-minute workout sessions burns fat faster than exercising without a break, Japanese researchers are reporting.
The researchers tested the blood of seven men -- average age 25 -- during and after exercise on a stationary cycle. The men participated in three different activities: one hour of ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
An estimated 135,000 (65 percent) of sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) treated in U.S. emergency departments occur each year in young people ages 5 to 18, according to a study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Approximately 8 percent, ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
"Over the top!", "Don't Aim!", "Push off the rubber!" If these phrases are all too familiar to you while at a ball game, they could be causing more harm than good. Sports Medicine specialist, Raphael Longobardi, MD of the University Orthopaedic Center in Hackensack, NJ, is seeing more athletes, younger ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
On 26th June, the Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) launched the Good Sports program in the Wollongong City Council local government area.
The Australian Drug Foundation is pleased to announce that, thanks to a funding arrangement with the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), a Good Sports Project Officer has been appointed ...
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