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A groundbreaking study from the University of Auckland and Chalmers University of Technology is offering new hope for spinal cord injury patients. Researchers have developed an ultra-thin implant that delivers gentle electric currents...Friday, June 27, 2025 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller than your fingernail. That’s the power of a new quantum-enabled biosensor developed at EPFL. Ditching bulky...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Hot tubs don't just feel great, they may actually outperform saunas when it comes to health perks. A study found that soaking in hot water raises core body temperature more than dry or infrared saunas, triggering stronger heart, blood...Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When brains drift from this state,...Friday, June 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
USC researchers have uncovered a hidden driver behind the early and severe onset of Alzheimer's in people with Down syndrome: iron overload in the brain. Their study revealed that individuals with both conditions had twice the iron...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
As electric vehicles grow more popular, their warning sounds may not be doing enough to protect pedestrians. A Swedish study shows that these signals are hard to locate, especially when multiple vehicles are involved, leaving people...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Imagine diagnosing Parkinson s disease not with pricey scans or subjective checklists, but with a simple ear swab. Scientists in China have developed a promising early screening method that detects Parkinson s from subtle changes in the...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Sport, exercise and physical activity are vital for women’s health and well-being, yet returning to these activities following injury, postpartum and through ageing can be challenging. 1–3 There has been an ongoing fight for...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Plantar heel pain is the most common foot and ankle condition treated in clinical settings, often leading to persistent symptoms and functional limitations. 1 Although multiple factors contribute to its development, most research has...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Background Low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability, imposing an enormous economic burden on society. In the UK, the cost of treating low back pain in general practice alone was estimated to be £3.2 billion...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Hip dysplasia is a developmental condition that can be congenital or occur throughout childhood and increases the risk of hip osteoarthritis. It is associated with pain and impairments in young adults and can be career-ending for...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Pelvic floor health is recognised as one of the 10 domains of female athlete health that should be included in illness and injury surveillance. 1 However, pelvic floor health and dysfunction are not typically covered within sport and...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
The absence of agreed methods to diagnose Achilles tendinopathy impedes research and clinical practice. This gap results in heterogeneous and/or poorly described study samples, making it challenging to apply findings in clinical...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Knee cartilage lesions are frequent in football players, but evidence for surgical treatment is lacking. The aim of this International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society, Fédération Internationale de...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Objective This study investigated the efficacy of cognitive functional therapy (CFT) versus a sham procedure for pain intensity and disability for patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (CLBP). Methods This is a randomised...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Objectives Non-anaemic iron deficiency (IDNA) is highly prevalent in exercising females. Although iron therapy can be used to correct this issue, its impact on exercise performance is equivocal. Our aim was to assess the efficacy of...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Objective To evaluate differences in sport-specific concomitant injuries, return-to-sport (RTS), second ACL injuries and Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) subscales after adolescent ACL reconstruction (ACLR) across...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Objective There is a need to explore the many factors that may have a more subtle influence on, or relationship with, sensorimotor control as it pertains to anterior cruciate ligament injury risk. Due to well-established...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
This position statement from the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM) has been developed to assist sporting organisations, individuals, athletes, coaches, medical and dental professionals to integrate comprehensive medical...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
As a junior doctor in my fourth year of radiology training, work plays an outsized role in my life—and there never seem to be enough hours in the day to complete all my tasks. For a long time, I survived on oven pizza and regularly...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
What did I do? Retirement from sport can elicit significant psychological distress, particularly when unexpected; however, it is unknown whether former athletes experience poorer mental health and worse sleep than currently competing...Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Introduction The second edition of the Kabaddi World Cup, held in the West Midlands, England, from 17 March 2025 to 23 March 2025, showcased the thrilling sport of kabaddi on a global stage. This event not only highlighted the athletic...Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
A review of experimental research reveals how VR is best used and why it's struggled to become a megahit with consumers.Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Sudden cardiac death is responsible for an unusually high proportion of deaths in male bodybuilders worldwide with the highest risk among professional bodybuilders, according to new research.Monday, May 19, 2025 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
A team was able to show that swimming movements are possible even without a central control unit. This not only explains the behavior of microorganisms, it could also enable nanobots to move in a targeted manner, for example to transport...Monday, May 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Lowering the legal tackle height in women's rugby is proving effective in reducing head contacts between players, a new study suggests. Changes to the tackle height law in women's community rugby in Scotland is linked to reductions in...Monday, May 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Scientists turned their sophisticated analytical capabilities for testing athlete samples for performance-enhancing drugs to research examining the U.S. meat supply. The study was designed to investigate concerns that residues of growth...Thursday, May 8, 2025 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table.Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
New research reveals that obesity, having a knee injury and occupational risks such as shift work and lifting heavy loads are primary causes of knee osteoarthritis.Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
National Football League (NFL) players may be more likely to sustain a specific type of knee injury if they have a shorter period of rest between games.Tuesday, April 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
A new study may offer reassuring news for parents whose children have a history of concussion, but want to get back to playing sports. Researchers spent more than a decade scouting fields, rinks and courts across the Greater Toronto Area...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Researchers uncover how over-reducing breast motion in bras could increase back pain during exercise.Monday, December 11, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed plant-based microrobots that are intended to pave the way for medical robots that can enter the body and perform tasks, such as obtaining a biopsy or performing a...Monday, November 20, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have collaborated with the Japanese automotive company Honda to develop an e-skin for robotic prostheses that allows such devices to sense their environment in significant detail. The soft...Monday, November 20, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
A research team at the University of California San Diego have developed a smartphone attachment that can provide information on changes in pupil size, which can be used to assess neurological phenomena, such as traumatic brain injury...Thursday, November 9, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
A team at the University of Technology Sydney has developed an assistive technology for blind people and those with low vision. The system consists of glasses that can view their surroundings through an on-board camera, appraise the...Thursday, November 9, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a magneto-responsive hydrogel wound dressing that also contains two different regenerative cell types. The hydrogel is also embedded with magnetic particles that can be...Tuesday, November 7, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Charco Neurotech, a medtech company based in the United Kingdom, has developed CUE1, a non-invasive wearable that is intended to assist those with Parkinson’s disease to manage their motor symptoms. The device is typically affixed to the...Tuesday, November 7, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a robotic prosthetic ankle that can provide stability for lower limb amputees. The ankle uses electromyographic sensors placed on the sites of muscles in the residual limb...Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed a microfluidic chip that can recreate some of the features of radiation-induced lung injury. The lungs are very sensitive to radiation, and this can limit the...Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at Rice University have developed a magnetoelectric material that converts a magnetic field into an electric field. The material can be formulated such that it can be injected into the body, near a neuron, and then an...Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Arriving in two boxes reminiscent of Apple product packaging – one for the chest piece (the part that contacts the body), and another for the detachable earpiece (tubes + ear tips) – the CORE 500 is clearly an upgrade from the Eko DUO...Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
A team at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a technique to enhance chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in solid tumors. The technique involves engineering E. coli bacteria, that...Friday, January 17, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
Taking an appetite suppressant produced by gut bacteria may help increase the value of moderate exercise for weight loss, according to a new study.Wednesday, January 15, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
A Baker’s cyst is a sac of fluid that forms behind the knee. Here, learn about exercises and remedies that can help with prevention and treatment.Wednesday, January 15, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
Knee stiffness can limit mobility and prevent a person from carrying out regular tasks and activities. Learn about the causes of knee stiffness and their treatments here.Tuesday, January 14, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
The findings of a new study suggest that training for and running a marathon for the first time can 'turn back time' on a person's vascular age.Tuesday, January 14, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
Symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) occurs when joint stabilizing ligaments around the pelvic bones become too stretchy and relaxed. Learn more here.Monday, January 13, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
High intensity interval training (HIIT) is a type of exercise that combines short bursts of intense activity with periods of rest. Learn about the potential benefits here.Monday, January 13, 2020 from Sports Medicine News From Medical News Today
Cold showers and hot showers may have different effects on the body. In this article, learn about the potential benefits of each, as well as some risks.