Objectives: To establish the prevalence of back pain in German elite athletes; examine the influence of age, sex, sports discipline and training volume; and compare elite athletes with a physically active control group. Methods: A standardized and validated online back pain questionnaire was sent...

The purpose of this study is to identify the differences in school attitudes among middle school students according to their participation in school sports club, participation period, frequency of weekly participation, and number of competitions. For this purpose, 520 middle school students who...

The construction of ideological and political curriculum education for college sports club curriculum is a beneficial attempt of the construction of ideological and political curriculum education in the field of sports, which broadens the scope of cultivating people for the construction of the...

The study examined standard sports facilities as predictors for elite sports performance by Nigerian university students. Participants made up of 153 sports officials and 270 students were drawn from nine universities in Southern Nigeria. A validated self-structured 15-item questionnaire with a...

The design fluency test (DFT) has been reported to predict successful sports performance of soccer players and has therefore been in the spotlight of sport psychology research. There is, however, a lack of research regarding the psychometric properties of the DFT in elite sports. Thus, the aim...

This article aims to analyze school sports management through the actions of the Brazilian Confederation of School Sports - CBDE taking into account the guiding principles of the Federal Constitution of 1988 - CF/88, the National Sport Policy - PNE and the management sports. The goal was...

In the fields of both education and sport, the possession of capital and habitus influences an individual's lifestyles and choices, which in turn affects the social selection within these fields. In this article, we will study the Swedish system of school sports as an overlap between the fields of ...

Coaches are sports leaders who direct their athletes to the determined goals through close communication and interaction with them. Although Coaching Education Departments of Sports Science Faculties are officially authorized to train certified coaches, the graduates of Physical Education and ...

Background: The purpose was to analyse the association between physical activity taking place in different contexts (sports club, gym, exercise independently and other organized physical activities) and symptoms of depression. Methods: The study was based on self-reported cross-sectional data from ...

College sports are a multi-billion dollar industry that influence the financial decisions of colleges and universities throughout the United States. One such decision is the implementation of mandatory athletics fees charged to the student body. University administrators introduce these fees under ...