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BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine8d
Reimagining athlete monitoring for true indicative injury prevention
Injury prevention and performance optimisation in sports are evolving from generic strategies to more personalised, timely ...
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine10d
Exploring contextual factors for management and prevention of running-related injuries: runners and experts’ perspectives
Running is one of the most accessible and popular physical activities worldwide; however, injuries are the main barrier to ...
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131 Deconditioning in hospital. Introducing physical activity for inpatients via the active hospitals project – creating a sustainable active ward model
Introduction and Purpose Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) participated in phase 2 of the Active Hospitals Project. A number of work streams were created, summarised in figure 1. A ...
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12 (1B) Kynurenine pathway and inflammation biomarkers, concussion history, and hormonal contraception use in female athletes
Purpose Prior evidence suggests that kynurenine pathway (KP) metabolites and peripheral inflammatory markers are associated with concussion history. Hormonal contraceptives (HC) also affect these ...
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71 (10B) Pluralistic ignorance in concussion reporting among male professional rugby players
Purpose To examine pluralistic ignorance – the belief that peers’ views differ from one’s own – regarding concussion reporting among male professional rugby players in Major League Rugby (MLR).
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Scientific Abstracts for the 2025 Symposium of the Concussion in Sport Group, April 30th – May 1st, Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Abstracts: These abstracts are published as a service to attendees of the 2025 meeting of the Concussion in Sport Group (CISG). The mission of CISG is ‘to enhance the science and practice of health ...
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It’s about timing: how density can benefit future research on the optimal dosage of acute physical exercise breaks in esports
In recent years, organised and competitive video gaming, esports, has gained enormous popularity in many parts of the world, contributing to the growing professionalisation of this sports branch. To ...
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67 (6A) Presence of stress and concussion history and associations with anxiety and depression in college-aged adults
Purpose Examine the influence of concussion history and current life stress on self-reported anxiety and depression in young adults. Methods This cross-sectional study included 75 young adults (70% ...
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55 Factors associated with non-specific low back pain in field hockey: a cross-sectional study of premier and division one players
Introduction and Purpose Several risk factors have been identified that alter risk of developing non-specific low back pain (LBP) in the general population. However, there is a lack of evidence around ...
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8 (9B) Concussion epidemiology in collegiate artistic athletes: findings from the ivy league-big ten study
Purpose National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) artistic sports, including gymnastics and diving, require inversion, somersaulting, and rotational movements where concussions account for 8.4% ...
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37 (1A) Concussion treatment protocol utilizing brainwave entrainment with the braintap headset & compression therapy with the normatec pulse 2.0
Purpose This study evaluated the effects of Brainwave Entrainment (BWE) using the BrainTap headset and compression therapy (CT) with the NormaTec Pulse 2.0 Legs device as adjunct therapies for ...