Including performance level lowers prevalence of non-timeloss groin injury. A cross-sectional study in 383 female amateur football players

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 225-230
Author(s):  
Rob R.F.H. Langhout ◽  
Igor J.R. Tak
Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Ramón Chacón Cuberos ◽  
Manuel Castro-Sanchez ◽  
Tamara Espejo-Garcés ◽  
Felix Zurita Ortega

El estudio de la resiliencia como capacidad para superar situaciones de adversidad ha tomado protagonismo en la última década, especialmente en la rama de la psicología deportiva. El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en estudiar sus niveles en diversas modalidades deportivas, con el fin de establecer patrones en función del deporte practicado. En este sentido, este estudio de carácter descriptivo y transversal contó con una muestra constituida por 39 deportistas de diversas modalidades (fútbol, balonmano y esquí), permitiendo el estudio de factores asociados a la resiliencia, utilizándose como instrumento el cuestionario CD-RISC de Connor-Davidson (2003). Los resultados concretaron que los esquiadores poseían puntuaciones de resiliencia más elevadas, siendo los futbolistas aquellos que presentaban una menor puntuación. Asimismo, tanto los jugadores de balonmano como los esquiadores obtuvieron la mayor valoración en el ítem R7, asociándose los futbolistas al R24 (ambos referidos a la tenacidad y autosuficiencia); el ítem R3, referido a creencias religiosas, concretó la menor porcentualidad. Como conclusión, se demuestra la variabilidad de la resiliencia y sus dimensiones en función del deporte practicado, mostrándose los factores resilientes más débiles y que deberían ser desarrollados para mejorar el rendimiento deportivo en situaciones adversas. Abstract. The study of resilience as a quality-ability to overcome adverse situations has taken center stage in the last decade, especially in the field of sport psychology. The objective of this research is to study the levels of resilience in different sports in order to establish patterns depending on the sport practiced. In this regard, this descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out using 39 sportsmen from different modalities (football, handball and skiing), allowing the study of factors associated with resilience, using the CD-RISC questionnaire of Connor-Davidson (2003). The results show that skiers had higher resilience scores, while football players were those who had a lower score. In addition, handball players and skiers obtained the highest score in the R7 item, while footballers were associated to the R4 item (both referred to the tenacity and self-sufficiency); the R3 item, based on religious beliefs, showed the lowest punctuation. In conclusion, the variability of resilience and its dimensions depending on the sport is demonstrated, highlighting the weakest resilient factors, which should be developed to enhance sport performance in adverse situations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 232596711774727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Esteve ◽  
Michael Skovdal Rathleff ◽  
Jordi Vicens-Bordas ◽  
Mikkel Bek Clausen ◽  
Per Hölmich ◽  
...  

Background: Hip adductor muscle weakness and a history of groin injury both have been identified as strong risk factors for sustaining a new groin injury. Current groin pain and age have been associated with hip adductor strength. These factors could be related, but this has never been investigated. Purpose: To investigate whether soccer athletes with past-season groin pain and with different durations of past-season groin pain had lower preseason hip adductor squeeze strength compared with those without past-season groin pain. We also investigated whether differences in preseason hip adductor squeeze strength in relation to past-season groin pain and duration were influenced by current groin pain and age. Study Design: Cross-sectional study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: In total, 303 male soccer athletes (mean age, 23 ± 4 years; mean weight, 74.0 ± 7.9 kg; mean height, 178.1 ± 6.3 cm) were included in this study. Self-reported data regarding current groin pain, past-season groin pain, and duration were collected. Hip adductor squeeze strength was obtained using 2 different reliable testing procedures: (1) the short-lever (resistance placed between the knees, feet at the examination bed, and 45° of hip flexion) and (2) the long-lever (resistance placed between the ankles and 0° of hip flexion) squeeze tests. Results: There was no difference between those with (n = 123) and without (n = 180) past-season groin pain for hip adductor squeeze strength when adjusting for current groin pain and age. However, athletes with past-season groin pain lasting longer than 6 weeks (n = 27) showed 11.5% and 15.3% lower values on the short-lever ( P = .006) and long-lever ( P < .001) hip adductor squeeze strength tests, respectively, compared with those without past-season groin pain. Conclusion: Male soccer athletes with past-season groin pain lasting longer than 6 weeks are likely to begin the next season with a high-risk groin injury profile, including a history of groin pain and hip adduction weakness.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Gago Raymundo ◽  
Carlos Soares Pernambuco ◽  
Rosana Dias de Oliveira Brum ◽  
Juliana Brandão Pinto de Castro ◽  
Flávio Boechat de Oliveira ◽  
...  

Summary Study aim: To evaluate the levels of strength, agility and the maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) between the offensive and de­fensive teams of football players. Material and methods: In the present cross-sectional study, 20 male Brazilian football players were divided into an offensive group (OG, n = 10, age: 25.50 ± 6.15 years) and a defensive group (DG, n = 10, age: 22.50 ± 5.48 years). We used the dy­namometer for back and legs, the shuttle run test, and the Cooper test to evaluate strength, agility and VO2max, respectively. Results: The independent Student t-test showed that the OG was significantly more agile than the DG (p < 0.05). The other variables did not show any statistically significant differences. In the OG there was a strong correlation between agility and VO2max (r = - 0.834, p = 0.003, r2 = 0.70). However, in the DG there was a moderate correlation between the same variables (r = - 0.677, p = 0.031, r2 = 0.46). This shows that the greater the agility is, the higher is the VO2max. There was no correlation between the variables muscle strength and body fat percentage. Conclusions: The study showed that the OG has a better physical condition than the DG.


2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn R. Klein ◽  
Barbara J. Amster

Abstract A study by Yaruss and Quesal (2002), based on responses from 134 of 239 ASHA accredited graduate programs, indicated that approximately 25% of graduate programs in the United States allow students to earn their degree without having coursework in fluency disorders and 66% of programs allow students to graduate without clinical experience treating people who stutter (PWS). It is not surprising that many clinicians report discomfort in treating PWS. This cross-sectional study compares differences in beliefs about the cause of stuttering between freshman undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory course in communicative disorders and graduate students enrolled and in the final weeks of a graduate course in fluency disorders.


Vacunas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.M. AlGoraini ◽  
N.N. AlDujayn ◽  
M.A. AlRasheed ◽  
Y.E. Bashawri ◽  
S.S. Alsubaie ◽  
...  

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Vierhaus ◽  
Arnold Lohaus ◽  
Indra Shah

This investigation focuses on the question whether assessments of the development of internalizing behavior from childhood to adolescence are affected by the kind of research design (longitudinal versus cross-sectional). Two longitudinal samples of 432 second-graders and 366 fourth graders participated in a longitudinal study with subsequent measurements taken 1, 2, and 3 years later. A third sample consisting of 849 children covering the same range of grades participated in a cross-sectional study. The results show that the development of internalizing symptoms in girls – but not in boys – varies systematically with the research design. In girls, there is a decrease of internalizing symptoms (especially between the first two timepoints) in the longitudinal assessment, which may reflect, for example, the influence of strain during the first testing situation. Both longitudinal trajectories converge to a common trajectory from grade 2 to grade 7 when controlling for this “novelty-distress effect.” Moreover, when we control this effect, the slight but significant decrease characterizing the common trajectory becomes similar to the one obtained in the cross-sectional study. Therefore, trajectories based on longitudinal assessments may suggest more changes with regard to internalizing symptoms over time than actually take place, while trajectories based on cross-sectional data may be characterized by an increased level of internalizing symptoms. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.


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