• Putting a new spin on the football spiral
    Thursday, August 4, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Only a handful of researchers have studied why an American football flies in such a unique trajectory, rifling through the air with remarkable precision, but also swerving, wobbling, and even tumbling as it barrels downfield. Now,...
  • Smart microrobots learn how to swim and navigate with artificial intelligence
    Thursday, August 4, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability.
  • Lumen: World’s First Device and App for Real-time Metabolic Feedback
    Wednesday, August 3, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Lumen is the first device and app available to anyone that provides real-time feedback on whether you’re burning carbohydrates or fats. These measurements are usually only made for athletes or patients through special testing centers,...
  • Silicone Heart Models Heart Failure
    Wednesday, August 3, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Scientists at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and partners at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin have developed a silicone heart model that is intended to model heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The...
  • Point of Care Rapid PCR Test
    Tuesday, August 2, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Columbia University scientists and collaborators at Rover Diagnostics have created a rapid PCR test that can be used at the point of care. Weighing in at two pounds, the portable device can rival the sensitivity and accuracy of...
  • Spray Coating Fights Viruses and Bacteria
    Monday, August 1, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia engineered a new spray coating for surfaces that provides long-term protection against bacterial and viral contamination. The material is intended as a long-term alternative to...
  • Assessing Heart Function and Fluid Status with Cardiac Scales: Interview with John Lipman, CEO, and Corey Centen, Founder, Bodyport
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Bodyport, a medtech company based in San Francisco, developed the Bodyport Cardiac Scale, a set of weighing scales that can non-invasively assess fluid status and heart function. The scales can detect these signals through the feet when...
  • Magnetic Activation of Specific Brain Circuits
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Scientists at Rice University developed a system to wirelessly and rapidly activate specific brain circuits using magnetic fields. The technology has been developed in fruit flies, a common experimental animal, but the researchers hope...
  • Physical activity: short-term pain with so much to gain!
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Warm-Up As we slowly emerge from the pandemic, the world is finding its new normal and we are beginning to quantify the ramifications of COVID-19 and what it means to physical activity, sport and health. With lockdowns, restrictions and...
  • Behavioural epidemiology of physical activity in people living with chronic conditions
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Chronic conditions, typically characterised as diseases of long duration, slow progression and that require long-term management, contribute significantly to the global burden of disease and are predicted to become more prevalent in the...
  • 'Im active enough in my job. Why is occupational physical activity not enough?
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Physical activity (PA) is one of the most important factors to determine health outcomes. It is well established that for many musculoskeletal problems, PA and exercise are the way to better health. PA offers a wide range of physical and...
  • Reimagining physical activity for children following the systemic disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    COVID-19-related restrictions disrupted the normal social and environmental systems within which children live, learn and play. These sudden societal changes provided opportunities for children and young people, their families, and the...
  • Physical activity and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe COVID-19 illness and COVID-19 related mortality in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Purpose To determine the potential associations between physical activity and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe illness from COVID-19 and COVID-19 related death using a nationwide cohort from South Korea. Methods Data regarding 212...
  • Prevalence and clinical implications of persistent or exertional cardiopulmonary symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection in 3597 collegiate athletes: a study from the Outcomes Registry for Cardiac Conditions in Athletes (ORCCA)
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Objective To assess the prevalence and clinical implications of persistent or exertional cardiopulmonary symptoms in young competitive athletes following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods This observational cohort study from the Outcomes...
  • Long-term leisure-time physical activity and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: dose-response associations in a prospective cohort study of 210 327 Taiwanese adults
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Objectives We aimed to investigate the dose–response associations of long-term leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) obtained from repeated measures with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality outcomes in Taiwanese...
  • Diagnostic evaluation and cardiopulmonary exercise test findings in young athletes with persistent symptoms following COVID-19
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Objectives Persistent or late-onset cardiopulmonary symptoms following COVID-19 may occur in athletes despite a benign initial course. We examined the yield of cardiac evaluation, including cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), in...
  • Effects of exercise training on the cognitive function of older adults with different types of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Objectives To assess the effect of exercise training on the cognitive function of older adults living with different types of dementia, as well as potential moderators of exercise efficacy. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis....
  • Acute and post-acute COVID-19 presentations in athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Objective To describe acute/postacute COVID-19 presentations in athletes. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources The search was conducted in four databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCOPUS, SPORTDiscus) and restricted to...
  • Dr Geoff Thompson: a pioneer in Sport and Exercise Medicine serving First Nations People in Australias Northern Territory
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
    Dr Geoff Thompson arrived in the Northern Territory (NT) in November 1971, a move that changed his life forever. The NT is in the north of the Australian continent and is known for its iconic landmarks and ancient Aboriginal culture. The...
  • Bacterial Microrobots Deliver Drug Payload to Tumors
    Thursday, July 28, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed tumor-targeting microrobots using bacteria. The team exploited the tendency of bacteria to naturally gravitate towards areas of low oxygen and low...
  • Face Mask Deactivates SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein
    Thursday, July 28, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Researchers at the University of Kentucky created a novel membrane that can enzymatically degrade the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, rendering the virus inactive. The membrane is intended to act as an insert within face masks, providing extra...
  • Microparticle Vaccine Provides Boosters Automatically
    Wednesday, July 27, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Researchers at MIT have created a microparticle vaccine that can provide booster doses automatically. The hollow microparticles resemble a coffee cup with a lid, and are made using poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), otherwise known as PLGA....
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces at Home: Interview with Dr. Solzbacher of Blackrock Neurotech
    Thursday, July 21, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    Blackrock Neurotech, a medtech company based in Salt Lake City, has pioneered an array of brain-computer interface technologies. Medgadget last spoke with Blackrock Neurotech a year ago about their thought-to-text brain computer...
  • Optical Tweezers Turn Neutrophils into Microrobots
    Thursday, July 21, 2022 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
    The possibility of using our own cells to perform medical tasks within the body is tantalizing, as it would avoid the immune responses that can occur with synthetic objects. Researchers at Jinan University in China have now developed a...
  • Motion capture reveals why VAR in football struggles with offside decisions
    Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    New research has used motion capture technology to assess the accuracy of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technologies in football. The study suggests that VAR is useful for preventing obvious mistakes but is currently not precise enough...
  • Wearable activity trackers encourage us to walk up to 40 minutes more each day
    Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    New findings have endorsed what millions of people around the world believe: fitness trackers, pedometers and smart watches motivate us to exercise more and lose weight.
  • Robot dog learns to walk in one hour
    Monday, July 18, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Like a newborn animal, a four-legged robot stumbles around during its first walking attempts. But while a foal or a giraffe needs much longer to master walking, the robot learns to move forward fluently in just one hour. A computer...
  • Professional soccer players fought fatigue for six weeks after COVID infection, study finds
    Thursday, July 14, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Matchday performance of professional soccer players dropped after recovering from COVID-19 with three quarters fighting fatigue for six weeks, a study has found.
  • Consumer product-related traumatic brain injury in children has increased significantly since 2000, study finds
    Thursday, July 14, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    New research investigates consumer product-related traumatic brain injuries (CP-TBI) among school-aged children for a 20-year period by differentiating age groups, levels of education, and gender and evaluating trends with the time-point...
  • Discovery could inspire new way to detect brain abnormalities
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Scientists have taken a promising step towards a new generation of accurate, affordable and portable devices to detect concussion, epilepsy and dementia.
  • Fights in pro hockey don't deter greater violence, study finds
    Wednesday, June 22, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Allowing fights among players in the National Hockey Leagues does not deter greater violence in the modern game, according to a new study.
  • Up to 80% of athletes who die suddenly had no symptoms or family history of heart disease
    Thursday, June 16, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Recommendations on how to use gene testing to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes and enable safe exercise have just been published.
  • New model offers physics-inspired rankings evaluation
    Tuesday, June 7, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers describe a new way to evaluate rankings. Their goal is not to find one true hierarchy, but to calculate the spread of all possible hierarchies, with each one weighted by its probability.
  • Team sports linked to fewer mental health difficulties for kids
    Wednesday, June 1, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    A large-scale study of U.S. children and adolescents has found that participation in a team sport is associated with fewer mental health difficulties, but that kids who are exclusively involved in an individual sport--such as tennis or...
  • Antibiotics wreak havoc on athletic performance
    Wednesday, June 1, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes' motivation and endurance. The mouse study suggests the microbiome is a big factor separating athletes from 'couch potatoes'.
  • Breathing to win: Scientists show importance of screening breathing patterns in athletic populations
    Thursday, May 26, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Dysfunctional breathing patterns are associated with a high risk of musculoskeletal conditions, resulting in poor physical performance. Now, a study has found that among athletes across age groups, there is a high prevalence of...
  • Link between exercise intensity and risk of infection
    Wednesday, May 25, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Until now there has been no clarity on how exercise intensity affects the emission and concentration of aerosol particles in exhaled air. With a new experimental setup, researchers have shown that aerosol emissions increase exponentially...
  • Concussion symptoms in children may have multiple underlying causes
    Tuesday, May 17, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Different types of brain damage caused by a concussion may lead to similar symptoms in children, according to new research. A new way of studying concussions could help develop future treatments.
  • Motivation for sports and school go hand in hand for adolescent athletes
    Tuesday, May 17, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Adolescent athletes with high motivation for school also have high motivation for sports. Male students tend to be less interested in school than their female peers, a new study shows.
  • Excessive sports training may have negative effects on mood
    Thursday, May 12, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    New research on road cyclists sheds light on the importance of monitoring a training session load with the use of heart rate variability measuring tools, to favor assimilation and prevent injuries, and to compare training intensity with...
  • Clues about concussions from the gut
    Tuesday, May 10, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Scientists suggest telltale signs of concussions might be found in the gut. By taking blood, stool and saliva samples from 33 football players, the researchers were able to examine the diagnostic potential of the gut's microbiome. They...
  • It's all in the wrist: A portable MRI system for early detection of sports injuries
    Friday, May 6, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    To provide a convenient tool for the early detection of injuries, researchers have developed a portable MRI device for diagnosing cartilage damage in the wrist. Using this device, the researchers imaged the wrists of tennis players at a...
  • One-sport high school athletes prone to injury, burnout, research shows
    Tuesday, May 3, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    High school students who focus on one sport are more likely to get injured or suffer from burnout. But new research suggests their motivation for specializing in one sport is pure: love of the game and competition.
  • Arm movement and running speed: Is the partnership overrated?
    Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    New research into human speed suggests that athletes who performed short sprints with their arms closed across their chests were nearly as fast as when they sprinted with their normal arm swing.
  • Concussion worse if fighters rapidly cut weight before boxing and MMA matches
    Monday, April 11, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Fighters who rapidly cut weight before bouts are at a higher risk of suffering concussions or being misdiagnosed with head trauma, researchers have revealed for the first time. More than 60 per cent of athletes in combat sports like...
  • Researchers find a new way to measure flying baseballs
    Wednesday, April 6, 2022 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
    A new laboratory method uses a high-accuracy ball delivery device and speed measurement system to provide better clues on exactly how high and far some of those baseballs will fly.
  • Diagnosing sports-related concussions may be harder than thought
    Tuesday, April 5, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    The tool being used to diagnose concussions might be overestimating the condition and wrongly identifying symptoms like fatigue and neck pain caused from intense exercise and not a brain injury, according to researchers. This new...
  • Sport improves concentration and quality of life
    Tuesday, April 5, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Physically fit primary school pupils feel better and can concentrate better. They are more likely to make it to higher-level secondary grammar schools than children with less sporting ability.
  • Damaged nerve behind athletes' post-concussion issues
    Monday, April 4, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Depression, dizziness, difficulty focusing the gaze and balance problems. Many professional athletes who have sustained head trauma in sports have lingering symptoms that affect everyday life. Little help has been available as the cause...
  • Americans love football, but differ on whether kids should play
    Wednesday, March 30, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
    Football may be America's most popular sport, but the nation is deeply divided about whether youth should play the tackle version of the game.
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