Factors of influence for choosing sports and getting involved into training activity of track-and-field athletes and football players aged 12 to 17

Nelė Žilinskienė; Donatas Gražulis; Darius Radžiukynas

doi:10.15823/sm.2015.25

Imaging-detected acute muscle injuries in athletes participating in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games

British Journal of Sports Medicine ◽

10.1136/bjsports-2017-098247 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (7) ◽

pp. 460-464 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michel D Crema ◽

Mohamed Jarraya ◽

Lars Engebretsen ◽

Frank W Roemer ◽

Daichi Hayashi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Sports Injuries ◽

Track And Field ◽

Lower Limbs ◽

Football Players ◽

Muscle Injuries ◽

Anatomic Distribution ◽

3.0 T ◽

Olympic Village ◽

Medical Teams

BackgroundAcute muscle injuries in elite athletes are responsible for a large portion of time loss injuries.AimTo describe the frequency, the anatomic distribution, and severity of imaging-detected acute muscle injuries among athletes who competed in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics.MethodsWe recorded all sports injuries reported by the National Olympic Committee medical teams and the Organising Committee medical staff during the 2016 Summer Olympics. Imaging of acute muscle injuries was performed at the IOC’s polyclinic within the Olympic Village using ultrasound and 3.0 T and 1.5 T MRI scanners. The assessment of images was performed centrally by three musculoskeletal radiologists. The distribution of injuries by anatomic location and sports discipline and the severity of injuries were recorded.ResultsIn total, 11 274 athletes from 207 teams were included. A total of 1101 injuries were reported. Central review of radiological images revealed 81 acute muscle injuries in 77 athletes (66% male, mean age: 25.4 years, range 18–38 years). Athletics (track and field) athletes were the most commonly affected (n=39, 48%), followed by football players (n=9, 11%). The majority of injuries affected muscles from lower limbs (n=68, 84%), with the hamstring being the most commonly involved. Most injuries were grade 2 injuries according to the Peetrons classification (n=44, 54%), and we found 18 injuries exhibiting intramuscular tendon involvement on MRI.ConclusionImaging-detected acute muscle injuries during the 2016 Summer Olympics affected mainly thigh muscles in athletics disciplines.

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Comparison of Static Balance among Cricket, Badminton, Football and Track and Field Athletes

Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences ◽

10.14260/jemds/2021/594 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (34) ◽

pp. 2915-2919

Author(s):

Aishwarya Dilip Sanghavi ◽

Khushboo Trishant Chotai ◽

Smita Chandrakant Patil ◽

Amrutkuvar Shivaji Rayjade ◽

Janhavi Mahadev Sawant

Keyword(s):

Track And Field ◽

Football Players ◽

Static Balance ◽

Sports Performance ◽

Standing Posture ◽

Eyes Closed ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Single Leg Stance ◽

Eyes Open ◽

Specific Skill

BACKGROUND The balance plays an indispensable role in many sports. Static balance is crucial for a postural control and has an exceptional effect on the performance of sports players and for injury prevention. Sports like cricket, football, track and field, and badminton requires static balance for the execution of a sports-specific skill. Single leg stance test was used to assess balance on a surface during a 30 sec single-leg standing posture with eyes open and eyes closed. The main goal of this study was to determine that, in which sport the static balance was more and in which sport the static balance was inferior. The objectives were to assess the static balance in cricket, badminton, track and field, football athletes and compare the static balance in all 4 sports [cricket, badminton, track and field, football] METHODS A total of one hundred and twenty - four athletes [124], cricket {N = 31}, football {N = 31}, badminton {N = 31}, track and field {N = 31} voluntarily participated in the study. Static balance was assessed by using single leg stance test with eyes open and eyes closed. RESULTS By comparing all sports, it showed that there was a statistically significant difference between cricket, football, badminton and track and field athletes in dominant and non - dominant leg with eyes open and eyes closed. With eyes open, a static balance was demonstrated superior in track and field followed by football, cricket and least in badminton players in the dominant leg and non-dominant leg. (P < 0.0001) Whereas, with eyes closed, comparing between sports individually, there showed no such significant difference between dominant and non-dominant leg. Static balance was superior in track and field followed by football, by cricket and least in badminton in dominant and non-dominant leg (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Track and field players did not differ in dominant and non-dominant legs. In contrast, badminton players displayed mediocre static balance with eyes open and football players displayed mediocre static balance with eyes closed. There was no significant difference between open and closed eyes. But the balance score showed superior balance in open eyes when compared with closed eyes. KEY WORDS Athletes, Static Balance, Single Leg Stance Test, Balance, and Sports Performance.

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Teaching football-players the techniques of dribbling and stroke using digital technologies in terms of interactive training complex

BIO Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/bioconf/20202600044 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 00044

Author(s):

Vladimir Afonshin ◽

Gerold Drandrov ◽

Vladimir Burtsev ◽

Mikhail Polevchikov

Keyword(s):

Functional State ◽

Process Development ◽

Research Work ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Information Environment ◽

Football Players ◽

Teaching Process ◽

Training Activity ◽

Interactive Training ◽

Training Exercises

Russian football players are inferior to football players from the leading European clubs in the level of dribbling and stroke mastering techniques. This drawback overcoming demands scientific search for the ways of teaching process development, taking into consideration modern achievements in the sphere of digital technologies. The aim of the research work is to create the methodology of teaching young football players the technique of dribbling and stroke using digital technologies. They are realized on the basis of an interactive training complex (ITC). The work presents the description of created by us ITC. It provides the following: an active polymedia information environment creation, which defines the direction and speed of an athlete’s movements with the ball and without a ball at a training ground; an athlete’s functional state characteristics and the training activity parameters registration. We created the methodology of ITC use. It includes the amount of new training exercises and the ways of the training activity organization. We present the results of testing the methodology. They prove its practical effectiveness. It is conditioned by the opportunities in the methodology: realization of methodical techniques of repeated, adjacent, closed up, contrast and variative tasks; control over the process and results of the training tasks fulfillment; regulating the difficulty of the tasks; training tasks fulfillment organization in terms of competitive method.

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