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Microfracture for full‐thickness chondral lesions of the knee in elite athletes leads to high return‐to‐play rates

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Injuries to the knee are common in elite athletes and often involve damage to the articular cartilage. Given the high demands of elite sport, full‐thickness articular cartilage defects in the knee can be career‐limiting or threatening.
David J. Haslhofer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life as a Carded Athlete

open access: yes, 2014
In 2001 the Ministerial Taskforce for Sport, Leisure and Fitness presented the Graham Report to the New Zealand government. The authors of this document had been invited to assess the state of sport within New Zealand and provide recommendations for the ...
Ryan, Christina
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Gunslingers, poker players, and chickens 3: Decision making under mental performance pressure in junior elite athletes

open access: yes, 2017
BACKGROUND: Having investigated the decision making of world class elite and subelite athletes (see Parkin and Walsh, 2017; Parkin et al., 2017), here the abilities of those at the earliest stage of entry to elite sport are examined.
Walsh, V., Parkin, B.
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Emotional abuse in sport: A case study of trichotillomania in a prepubescent female gymnast [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ 2013 Gervis M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use ...
Godfrey, R, Gervis, M
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Delayed reconstruction is associated with higher rates of medial meniscus and chondral injury following ACL injury: A New Zealand ACL Registry Study

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Early reconstruction for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture may be controversial, with some clinicians opting for a trial of non‐operative management first. The impact of delayed surgery on outcomes is unclear, but it may be associated with an increase in secondary intra‐articular pathology involving the menisci and cartilage ...
Richard Rahardja   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Match demands and physical qualities of female athletes in Australian football, rugby union, rugby sevens, and rugby league: a scoping review

open access: yesBiology of Sport
This scoping review explored the physical qualities, and match demands of athletes participating at elite and sub-elite levels in four team-based collision sports played in Australia: Australian football, rugby union, rugby sevens, and rugby league ...
Riley Brassington   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A qualitative analysis of burnout in elite Swedish athletes

open access: yes, 2008
To extend the understanding of burnout in elite athletes, including personal experiences and perceived antecedents. Design and Methods: Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 Swedish 22- to 26-year-old elite athletes who had quit ...
Kentta, Goran   +7 more
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The majority of elite and professional athletes return to the preinjury level of activity after ACL reconstruction: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To compare return to play (RTP), time to RTP, level of RTP, and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) graft failure among elite and professional athletes from different sports after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Methods The PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library databases were searched to identify potentially relevant ...
Riccardo D'Ambrosi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physical exercise speeds up motor timing

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
This study aimed to examine effect of physical exercise on motor timing: personal, maximum and ‘once per second’ tapping. The acute effect was examined by comparing the baseline tapping with that after acute exercise in 9 amateur athletes, 8 elite ...
Olga V Sysoeva   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropometric and physiological changes in elite female water polo players during a training year

open access: yes, 2008
The aim of the current study was to monitor physiological and anthropometric characteristics of elite female water polo players within the periodized training year. Fourteen subjects participated in the current study.
Marrin, K.   +3 more
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