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Spinal Cord Injury and Sport
Published in Adam Gledhill, Dale Forsdyke, The Psychology of Sports Injury, 2021
This chapter explores the catastrophic nature of SCI and the accompanying challenges individuals face in improving and maintaining their health and well-being. Such challenges are brought about by a loss of function and mobility, which predisposes people with SCI to secondary health conditions and a decreased quality of life. The benefits of leading a physically active lifestyle following SCI in alleviating or preventing these health and well-being complications have been highlighted. For example, exercising can improve health and fitness, and playing sport can foster an athletic identity and positive psychological adjustment. That said, this chapter warns against an EiM approach, which promotes physical activity as a cure for all ills and calls upon individuals to take responsibility to be active for their own good. Health and exercise professionals and practitioners are therefore encouraged to take an ethical approach to physical activity promotion and prescription. This includes recognizing the social, cultural and environmental barriers preventing participation, and sharing stories which highlight alternative narratives following SCI.
Nutrients Applied to Injury_____Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
Published in Luke R. Bucci, Nutrition Applied to Injury Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, 2020
In general, acute traumatic injuries comprise the majority of sports injuries. Most are not severe enough to trigger adverse metabolic consequences; however, most are severe enough to limit physical function, training, and competition. The desire to return to full function must be carefully balanced with healing rate to prevent reinjury. Most acute sports injuries will heal without intervention. Is there an advantage to modulating nutrient intake for healing of acute injuries? Research has consistently shown that specific nutrients can accelerate healing rates and shorten recovery to full function for sports injuries (proteases in particular). Other nutrients play supporting roles that are not as conclusive as proteases, but may offer additional benefits to health. From the research findings to date, when acceleration of healing was reported, the healing appeared to be normal and not an artificial situation. Thus, the quicker recovery produced normal tissue function after healing.
Nutraceutical Application of Creatine
Published in Robert E.C. Wildman, Richard S. Bruno, Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, 2019
Richard B. Kreider, Douglas S. Kalman, Jose Antonio, Tim N. Ziegenfuss, Robert E.C. Wildman, Darren G. Candow, Chad M. Kerksick
Creatine is a member of the guanidine phosphagen family1,2 and is a naturally occurring nitrogen-containing compound found primarily in red meat and fish.3–6 It is also processed and manufactured into a dietary supplement and used by a variety of exercising and athletic populations (i.e., athletes, aging adults).2,7 Creatine is one of the most popular dietary supplement ingredients in the sports nutrition segment of the over $40-billion global sports nutrition market.8 Creatine is considered a non-essential nutrient since it can be produced within the human body, and through endogenous production and supplementation, muscle creatine supports high-intensity muscle actions during exercise and athletic performance. Beyond muscle performance, creatine has been shown to have some additional nutraceutical applications, while at the same time there are often questions related to safety. In this chapter, we will review the production of creatine in the body, availability in foods and supplements, and therapeutic applications.
Factors associated with sports participation amongst people with spinal cord injury in a Malaysian tertiary hospital
Published in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2023
Muhamad Faizal Zainudin, Aishah Ahmad Fauzi
Physical activities such as sports have been shown to be beneficial to health. Regular physical activity, sports participation, and active recreation are essential behaviors for preventing disease, promoting health, and maintaining functional independence.9 Engagement in sports leads to improvement in strength, coordination, balance, endurance, pulmonary function, and weight control.10 Regular physical activity can have substantial social benefits, providing a means of establishing new friendships, sharing experiences, developing social support networks, and reducing handicap.11 Sports participation after SCI was also found to be associated with increased community integration as well as the quality of life (QOL).12,13 A study conducted by Gioia et al. on the psychological impact of sports activity in SCI patients demonstrated that sports activity is associated with better psychological status, irrespective of tetraplegia and paraplegia. SCI patients who did not practice sports showed higher anxiety and depression scores and lower extraversion scores than sports participants.14
‘It’s more than just a running leg’: a qualitative study of running-specific prosthesis use by children and youth with lower limb absence
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Firdous Hadj-Moussa, Hafsa B. Zahid, F. Virginia Wright, Kerri Kelland, Jan Andrysek
Of the 17 potential study participants that were contacted by clinicians, 10 responded and consented to being contacted by the research team. Two of these 10 participants chose not to participate, while eight were recruited (8–20 years old, four males and four females) and took part in the interviews. In four of the eight interviews, the child’s mother chose to join their child as a participant. Interviews lasted from 30 to 70 min. Table 1 provides a breakdown of the participants’ key characteristics. Details of gender and diagnosis were omitted from the table to maintain the confidentiality of the child’s identity. Most study participants reported wearing their RSP only during a specific activity. For example, they would switch into their RSP at the start of gym class and then switch back into their DUP after. The most commonly reported RSP activity was running. Other sports included soccer, basketball, and gymnastics. RSPs were also used for playing during recess, going for walks, etc.
Supplementation of Kaempferia parviflora Extract Enhances Physical Fitness and Modulates Parameters of Heart Rate Variability in Adolescent Student-Athletes: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study
Published in Journal of Dietary Supplements, 2022
Bungorn Sripanidkulchai, Kreeta Promthep, Sarunya Tuntiyasawasdikul, Peera Tabboon, Rosawan Areemit
Sports and exercise is becoming a worldwide and very popular activity in maintaining good health and quality of life. Adolescence is a time of rapid growth and psychosocial development, participation in sports benefits physical skills, mental health, academic success, social identity and adjustment (Logan et al. 2019). A survey of college students aged 16 years and older showed that the main reasons for using dietary supplements were to enhance muscle strength, performance and endurance (Lieberman et al. 2015). Sport supplements vary in contents such as protein, amino acids, antioxidant vitamins, coenzyme Q10, caffeine, creatinine, steroids and herbal extracts. Some plants are claimed to have ergogenic aids for athletes, for example, capsaicin was suggested to be a stimulant for carbohydrate oxidation at rest and during exercise in runners (Lim et al. 1997). Ginkgo biloba improved exercise endurance in patients with peripheral arterial disease (Peters et al. 1998) and ginsenosides of Ginseng mitigated anti-stress effects and enhanced sport performance (Kim et al. 2005; Liang et al. 2005).