Body Mass, Training History, and Stress Fractures
Stress fractures are a problem with many types of athletes and with military trainees. These injuries occur to the lower extremity, typically the tibia , femur, or metatarsals and are the result...
injury prevention
The Hamstrings and Sprinting
Schache et al, published in the April issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, conducted a study investigating how each of the three hamstring muscles experience sprinting. The authors studied...
Female ACL Injuries: No Smoking Gun?
Basketball is an extremely popular sport with males and females. As has been documented extensively, female athletes are more prone to ACL tears (particularly in basketball) than male athletes. The literature theorizes...
Heat Stress and Football Linemen
Heat stress is a major concern in athletics, particularly American football. The evaporation of sweat is the major way for reducing body temperature during intense exercise. Deren et al in their 2012...
The Core and Athletic Performance: Murky Waters
Our understanding of the role of core training is in transition currently. It’s gone from being the holy grail of training (i.e. essential to performance and injury prevention) to having its significance...