Sports Medicine News

With gorgeous, long Colorado days ahead, many folks are dusting off their running shoes, greasing the chain on their bikes and trying on swimsuits.

The study by researchers at the University of Gothenberg in Sweden, together with associates from Sahlgrenska University Hospital shows a clear link between abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids and mental health many years later.

Researchers say if you're crunched for time, they've found the key to changing your body and improving your overall health.

Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice.

Older people and those with conditions affecting their bones often believe that exercise is unsafe.

Fitness experts are shining a new light on group classes from Zumba to yoga because they believe the right lighting can transform the four walls of a fitness studio from a dance party to a meditation space, and back again.

Tim Noakes is the Director of UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine , Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town and Professor, Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science, University of Cape Town.

Rhuland is a licensed physical therapist assistant with more than five years of experience in an orthopaedic and sports medicine setting.

One of the cardinal principles of physiology - and axioms of weight loss - is that you can't spot-reduce. You can't shed fat in just one part of your body without shedding fat all over.

The Resource Center's Diagnostic and Treatment Center has hired Jamestown native Dr.

Hoops for Hope , an annual basketball clinic and fundraiser for the Westfield Chapters of Girls Learn International, was held this Spring at Westfield High School.

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Selene G. Parekh, MD, MBA , associate professor of orthopaedics at Duke Medicine and the North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic, specializes in foot and ankle surgery, including trauma or sports injuries and total ankle replacement.

FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for the 2013 American College of Sports Medicine 60th Annual Meeting & 4th World Congress on Exercise is MedicineTM in Indianapolis, IN from May 28 - June 1, 2013.

LDL cholesterol and total cholesterol increased significantly when adults followed a Paleo diet for 10 weeks, even though they were exercising vigorously during that time, according to research that will be presented later this month at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.

The abbreviated workout, published in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal, also includes lunges, push-ups and tricep dips.

The HELPS program is a comprehensive physical for student-athletes and administrators hope to expand it to prevention in the coming years.

A new 12-step exercise regime that involves a chair, a wall and your body weight is promising to cut down lengthy workout times.

Statistics show 21 per cent more men than women aged 16 to 24 are regularly active.

When it comes to high-intensity interval training , the pros definitely outweigh the cons.