Introduction: Football presents a high rate of lower limb injuries and high incidence of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) rupture, especially in women. Due to this there is the need to optimize current prevention programs. This study aims to verify the possibility to reduce the biomechanical risk...
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Spolaor, F.; Guiotto, A.; Ciniglio, A.; Cibin, F.; Sawacha, Z.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023, 5, July,
Purpose: (1) To evaluate if energy availability (EA), macronutrient intake and body composition change over four training periods in young, highly trained, female cross-country skiers, and (2) to clarify if EA, macronutrient intake, body composition, and competition performance are associated with...
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Kettunen, O.; Mikkonen, R.; Mursu, J.; Linnamo, V.; Ihalainen, J. K.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023, 5, July,
Aim: The national Olympic committee of Switzerland has conducted an online survey among female elite athletes with a focus on cycle disorders, contraception, and injuries in 2021. Methods: A total of 1,092 female elite athletes from 107 different sports were asked to answer the questionnaire. A...
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Baumgartner, S.; Bitterlich, N.; Geboltsberger, S.; Neuenschwander, M.; Matter, S.; Stute, P.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Physiology, 2023, 14, July,
Recent academic focus has been on reducing the sex data gap for women in sport and exercise research. However, 'women in sport' is often narrowly represented by female athletes/participants, though there are numerous other positions in sport which are also threatened by a sex data gap. In this...
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Leabeater, A. J.; Clarke, A. C.; Roberts, A. H.; MacMahon, C.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 2023, 26, 9, pp 1602-1610
Background: Injury surveillance is the cornerstone of any prevention program. However the same pertaining to women's boxing is meager. We hence intended to analyse the incidence, pattern and characteristics of injuries in female boxers during the 4th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship,...
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Jahnavi Dande; Anirban Mallick; Patil, A. A.; Kalra, S. S.
Publisher
Elsevier, New Delhi, India
Citation
Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2023, 79, 3, pp 262-266
While the topic of athlete welfare has gained significant attention in academic literature, to date there has been a primacy placed on physical settings and their ability to augment or thwart the welfare of athletes. The discourse has, therefore, neglected the advent of social media spaces and...
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Kavanagh, E. J.; Litchfield, C.; Osborne, J.
Publisher
Human Kinetics, Leeds, UK
Citation
International Journal of Sport Communication, 2023, 16, 3, pp 274-281
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to translate and validate a Danish version of the coach-created Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire (EDMCQ-C), retest the factor structure and provide further investigation into the psychometric properties in terms of measurement...
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Elsborg, P.; Appleton, P. R.; Pons, J.; Wikman, J. M.; Bentsen, P.; Nielsen, G.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Sports Sciences, 2023, 41, 8, pp 715-726
Objective: The tackle is the most injurious event in rugby league and carries the greatest risk of concussion. This study aims to replicate previous research conducted in professional men's rugby league by examining the association between selected tackle characteristics and head impact events...
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McLeod, S.; Tucker, R.; Edwards, S.; Jones, B.; Page, G.; Spiegelhalter, M.; West, S. W.; Iverson, G. L.; Gardner, A. J.
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023, 5, June,
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of communication and coordination combined with designing a progressive and individualised sport-specific training program for reducing injury prevalence in youth female and male football and handball players transitioning to a sports academy high school. An ...
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Nyhus Hagum, C.; Tønnessen, E.; Hisdal, J.; Shalfawi, S. A. I.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023, 5, June,
Introduction: Despite increases in participation and raised attention for girls and women in sports, female sport is still based on male evidence that ignores gendered differences and experiences of unequal treatment and marginalization from grassroots to elite sport. This paper aimed to critically ...
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Fraser, K. K.; Kochanek, J.
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023, 5, June,