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Recovery Methods in Basketball: A Systematic Review

Sports, 2023
Although different strategies have been implemented to manage recovery-fatigue status in athletes, there is still a lack of consensus on which recovery protocols have the greatest impact and effectiveness when implemented with basketball players ...
Mladen Mihajlovic, Dimitrije Cabarkapa, Damjana V. Cabarkapa, Nicolas M. Philipp, Andrew C. Fry   +4 more
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Compliant Polymeric Sheet‐Based Heat Exchangers

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents flexible, transparent, and deployable polymer heat exchangers that achieve a heat transfer capacity per cost up to 4x higher than the state of the art, surpassing both metal and other polymer counterparts. The tube‐on‐tube design enables efficient heat transfer without flow occlusion, while the lightweight, corrosion‐resistant, and ...
Richard J. Fontenot, Loic Duggal, Sofia Urbina, Barclay Jumet, Anoop Rajappan, Daniel J. Preston   +5 more
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The relationship between training load and injury risk in taekwondo: a systematic review

BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
Background While training load is a recognized modifiable risk factor for injury in team sports, its impact in individual combat sports like taekwondo remains underexplored.
Yunzhou Hu, Zhiyu Fu, Michael Torres, Wen Luo, Bingxuan Tang, Dinghuang Zhu, Panfeng Zhao, Yuqing Li, Daniel T. P. Fong, Dan Wang   +9 more
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Repeatability of Motion Health Screening Scores Acquired from a Three-Dimensional Markerless Motion Capture System

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2022
The purpose of the present study was to examine the repeatability of five algorithm-derived motion health screening scores (i.e., readiness, explosiveness, functionality, quality, and dysfunction) obtained from an innovative three-dimensional markerless ...
Dimitrije Cabarkapa, Damjana V. Cabarkapa, Nicolas M. Philipp, Gabriel G. Downey, Andrew C. Fry   +4 more
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The Effects of Mild Dehydration on Cycling Performance in the Heat [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Hypohydration exceeding 2% of body mass (bm), affected by heat and thirst level, leads to decreased athletic performance. Both physiological and psychological factors of dehydration have an impact on an athlete’s perceived performance ...
Hamer, Elika
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A Fully Self‐Powered Digital Wearable System for the Auxiliary Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reports a system‐level fully self‐powered digital wearable system (FS‐DWS) for the auxiliary treatment of plantar fasciitis. By integrating arch support, energy harvesting, wearable sensing, and machine learning‐driven closed‐loop visualized feedback, the system enables effective plantar pressure reduction and self‐powered, real‐time plantar
Jiacheng Hou, Ying Hong, Shiyuan Liu, Qiqi Pan, Jingyu Zhang, Qingyang Xu, Qiyi Nie, Zhonghe Wang, Liming Xin, Yilong Wang, Biao Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling the nonlinear dynamics of player performance in China’s super league as a function of age

Scientific Reports
To explore the dynamics in physical and technical performance of professional football players and changes across age groups. Match statistics were collected from 1900 games across ten seasons (2012–2021) in the Chinese Super League. Generalized additive
Jun Cao, Wei Zhang, Changjing Zhou
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The effect of post-activation potentiation on neuromuscular activation of smashing technique during the recovery period of meniscal injuries in elite badminton players: non-negative matrix factorization-based muscle and time-frequency coherence

Frontiers in Physiology
ObjectivesTo investigate the effects of three distinct post-activation potentiation (PAP) interventions—neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), elastic band resistance, and squats—on neuromuscular activation during the smashing technique in high ...
Hongkai Zhuang, Siyao Hong, Yi Xia, Yi Sheng   +3 more
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Optimizing stretch-shortening cycle performance: effects of drop height and landing strategy on lower-limb biomechanics in drop jumps [PDF]

PeerJ
Background The stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) enhances performance in jumping, sprinting, and changes of direction. Drop heights and landing strategies affect its efficiency.
Qin Zhang, Fei Li, Danielle Anne Trowell, Muzu Hou, Zhenghe Qiu, Shiqin Chen, Haifeng Ma   +6 more
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Kinetic and Kinematic Characteristics of Setting Motions in Female Volleyball Players

Biomechanics, 2022
While being an integral part of both the offensive and defensive segments of the game, the biomechanical parameters of setting motions remain understudied in the scientific literature.
Damjana V. Cabarkapa, Dimitrije Cabarkapa, Andrew C. Fry, Shay M. Whiting, Gabriel G. Downey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source