Sports, Diet and Health

Sports, Diet and Health

Sports

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Alan Remde, Nancy Calabretta and Justin Bailey (March, 2013), Should Preparticipation Physicals For School-Aged Athletes Include Routine Ekgs?

Remde et al (2013) indicated the incidence of the sudden cardiac death in the sports men or athletes, in his article. The study showed that 0.5-2 individual die per hundred thousand sports individuals every year. Investigators discussed the various factors of the incidence and recommended the electrocardiogram screening before participation in the sports (Remde et al, 2013).

This is a good step in reducing the sudden death of the athlete and providing the immediate treatment, but this activity must not be recommend for the young sports men as there is no much probability of cardiac diseases in this age group.

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Michael D. Cusimano, Newton Cho, Steven R. McFaull et al (March, 2013), Mechanisms of Team-Sport-Related Brain Injuries in Children 5 to 19 Years Old: Opportunities for Prevention

Michael et al (2013) conducted the study regarding brain injuries mechanism related to the sports. They evaluated that brain injuries are preventable by giving awareness in the public, by offering safe environment for playing, and by educating the players and their coaches. Investigators used the method of descriptive analysis for the evaluation of the factors of brain injuries, using database of Canadian Hospitals (Michael et al, 2013).

Hitting and striking with each other during game, was found to be the frequent mechanism of injury. This article pointed out the crucial factor of injury regarding sports which would help in structuring the procedures to reduce these sorts of injuries particularly in children.

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Ross Wadey, Sarah Clark, Leslie Podlog & Dearbhla McCullough (March, 2013), Coaches' Perceptions of Athletes' Stress-related Growth following Sport Injury

Wadey et al ( 2013) examine the perception of the coaches regarding growth of the athlete after the injury. Semi structured interview method was used to evaluate data and explored via content analysis. Investigators indicated altered physical, social, psychological and personal growth. This study provided the coherence of self-reports about the growth effected by stress (Wadey et al, 2013).

This article proposed many new strategies to the coaches for the better growth of the athlete after injury. The role of coach is essential to bring his athlete back to the ground with constructive mind.

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Pamela Wicker & Christoph Breuer (April 23, 2013), Exploring the Organizational Capacity and Organizational Problems of Disability Sport Clubs in Germany using Matched Pairs Analysis

Wicker & Breuer (2013) carried out the research study for the disabled persons. They investigated the capacity provided in the sports club for these people as well as the challenges faced by such organization in providing sports facilities. Researchers compared sports club of disabled persons with the other. The results showed following the statistical analysis that sports club proving facilities to the disable, had much more capacity than the ordinary sport clubs. They were multi sports club and moreover could facilitate low income people and older population. This study aids to obtain the facilities of these clubs by all kind of ...