Conventional Sports Research Articles

EFFECT OF DRY NEEDLING IN PATIENT WITH TIBIAL STRESS SYNDROME (SHIN PAIN) IN ATHLETES UNIVERSITY PLAYER

40 Patient With tibial stress syndrome (shin splints) in Athletes ages of 18-45 year with tibial stress syndrome (shin splints), were analysis using subjective questioning based on a ten point Likert pain scale that was used to assess pain level. The Likert pain scale ranged start from none (1) to Distressing (5) to Unbearable (10). The athletes were divided into 2 treatment groups: conventional Sports physiotherapy (N=20), Dry needling (N=20). The treating practitioners were certied and patient is athletic trainee at DAVV University. The study took place over a 6 week period, with each participant lling out an initial questionnaire (Intake) prior to the rst week of treatment and After 6 week treatment).Participants answered questions concerning intensity and duration of pain during and between activities, in addition to dosages taken of anti-inammatory medications (NSAID). All Subjects of groups taken a minimum of 2 treatments sessions per week. The 2 treatment groups compared to each other: conventional Sports physiotherapy (A), Dry needling along with conventional sports physiotherapy (B). All athletes reported an increase in effectiveness of treatment after 6 week. Regardless of the treatment group they were in. The perception of pain, pain relief, and effectiveness was signicantly improved for athletes in the both Group. Athletes in the B Groups received the most pain relief, were least blocked by pain during sporting and nonsporting activities, and felt overall that the treatments were more effective than A Group.

Acceptance of Digital Sports: A Study Showing the Rising Acceptance of Digital Health Activities Due to the SARS-CoV-19 Pandemic.

In pandemic times, the possibilities for conventional sports activities are severely limited; many sports facilities are closed or can only be used with restrictions. To counteract this lack of health activities and social exchange, people are increasingly adopting new digital sports solutions—a behavior change that had already started with the trend towards fitness apps and activity trackers. Existing research suggests that digital solutions increase the motivation to move and stay active. This work further investigates the potentials of digital sports incorporating the dimensions gender and preference for team sports versus individual sports. The study focuses on potential users, who were mostly younger professionals and academics. The results show that the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic had a significant negative impact on sports activity, particularly on persons preferring team sports. To compensate, most participants use more digital sports than before, and there is a positive correlation between the time spent physically active during the pandemic and the increase in motivation through digital sports. Nevertheless, there is still considerable skepticism regarding the potential of digital sports solutions to increase the motivation to do sports, increase performance, or raise a sense of team spirit when done in groups.

Performance Optimization Method of Community Sports Facilities Configuration Based on Linear Planning Model

The conventional community sports facility allocation methods have high minimum costs, and a new community sports facility allocation performance optimization method is designed based on a linear programming model in order to reduce the performance capital investment. The standardized community sports facility allocation performance objective function is established, and a pairwise model is built to divide the feasible and optimal solutions, and the feasible solutions and their constraints are found out. Establish a community sports facility configuration performance optimization model, delineate the boundaries of the optimal solution by bifurcation, and set the feasible domain of the performance optimization model. The performance optimization algorithm is designed to improve the speed of community sports facility allocation performance optimization. In the experiment, the method is compared with data‐driven method, digital management method, and evolutionary game algorithm, which requires less capital investment in spring, autumn, and winter than digital management method and evolutionary game algorithm, and the minimum capital investment in summer is less than the other three methods. From the above experimental data, it is clear that the performance optimization method has the smallest minimum capital investment and achieves the purpose of reducing the input cost.

Effects of a Drums Alive® Intervention versus Hand-Foot Coordination Training on Motor, Cognitive and Motivational Parameters in Seniors

This study was conducted to compare the effects of two different interventions on the physiological, cognitive, and motivational parameters in seniors; and, how they would be accepted as alternative forms of exercise in the senior population. The facilitators recruited 26 randomly selected participants from two senior care facilities in Chemnitz, Germany who were required to complete two 45-minute exercise periods a week for 30 days. The first group completed the Drums Alive intervention which included a multi-dimensional approach using music, movement, drumming choreographies, games, and activities. The second intervention group completed a series of Hand-Foot Coordination exercises that used beat-keeping patterns on various parts of the body. Each intervention group had three divisions of participants, i.e. “healthy” to define those with no diagnosed malady, “dementia” for those with varying degrees of diagnosed dementia, and, “wheelchair” and those requiring a wheelchair for movement. The pre- and post-testing measurements consisted of age, heart rate, blood pressure, rate of perceived exertion (RPE), bar-drop test, chair-raise test, 6-minute walk test, memory, concentration, balance, reaction, coordination, and cognitive flexibility. In addition, to measure the level of motivation, i.e. fun, the participants used a tool that was developed by the Psychology Department of the Chemnitz University. The results demonstrated that both interventions were suitable alternates for senior-focused conventional sports offerings, however, the Drums Alive intervention outperformed the Hand-Foot Coordination intervention in a majority of the measured domains by an overall average of 9.45 percent. Of note, the data, vis a vis motivation, demonstrated a 38.4 percent increase for Drums Alive vice a 13.3 percent increase for Hand-Foot Coordination, suggesting the Drums Alive intervention offered more effective protocols that could inspire seniors to make this a part of an overall health and wellness plan to improve their quality of life.

Design of Sports Training System and Motion Monitoring and Recognition under Wireless Sensor Network

In conventional sports training, coaches record and observe athletes' sports data and judge whether it is reasonable based on their own experience. This qualitative analysis method is highly subjective, has large errors, and is susceptible to interference. To solve the above problems, the design of the sports training system under the wireless sensor network and the research of movement monitoring and recognition become very important. This article aims to study the design of sports training system and the monitoring and recognition of actions under the wireless sensor network technology. This paper simulates the implementation of the proposed data collection protocol and the two basic protocols, the direct transfer algorithm and the flooding algorithm, and compares the protocol proposed in this paper with the other two algorithms in terms of average information transmission success rate and average network overhead. Among them, the average information transmission success rate represents the ratio of the number of messages successfully arriving at the base station to the total amount of information generated by all nodes, and the average network overhead represents the average number of messages sent by each node. Experimental results show that the data collection protocol proposed in this paper can dynamically provide different transmission qualities for information of different importance levels, effectively reducing network overhead, and the reduced overhead is 11% of the original.

Effects of Diversified Sports Activity Module on Physical Fitness and Mental Health of 4-5-Year-Old Preschoolers.

Background:Chinese children are poorer in sports activity as compared to foreign children and their prospects as to physical fitness are not optimistic. This study aimed to discuss the effects of diversified sports activity modules on physical fitness and mental health of preschoolers ages 4–5 years.Methods:Sixty preschoolers aged 4–5-yr-old from two kindergartens in Jiaxing of China were selected randomly during Mar–Oct 2019. These respondents were divided into the experimental group (n=30) and the control group (n=30). The experimental group implemented the diversified sports activity module for 16 wk successively, 5 d per week, and 30–45 min per day. The control group adopted conventional sports activity. The body shape, physical fitness, and mental health of the two groups were measured and compared.Results:For body shape, the height of the experimental group increased is significantly higher than that of the control group. The experimental and control groups show no significant differences in body weight. For physical fitness, the experimental group is significantly superior to the control group in testing results of standing long jump, double-feet continuous jump, balancing on one foot, tennis shot, sit-and-reach, and 10 m repeated run. For mental health, the testing results of action development, language development, and social development of the experimental group are significantly better than those of the control group.Conclusion:The diversified sports activity module is not only conducive to strengthening the physical fitness of 4–5-year-old preschoolers but also improves their mental health.

Application Algorithms for Basketball Training Based on Big Data and Internet of Things

In recent years, the increasing demand for physical health promotes the basketball sports industry’s reform. The latest science and technology enter the sports industry one after another and constantly impact the traditional sports equipment. However, the conventional sports technology scheme is unreasonable, and the sports training management models are obsolete. So, it is impossible to use scientific methods in basketball training, and the overall training effect is not good. This paper proposes a basketball training algorithm using big data and the Internet of Things. The proposed algorithm uses gesture recognition from continuous video movement characteristics of key figures, trajectory characteristics, and background information fusion. It improves the recognition mechanism based on the Shuangliu C3D video basketball player action classification method. Due to the lack of a scientific exercise plan for basketball players, a training plan based on BMI and IoT-enabled big data is devised. The proposed scheme is implemented so that different basketball players customize their own scientific sports training modules.

Implementasi Layanan Firebase pada Pengembangan Aplikasi Sewa Sarana Olahraga Berbasis Android

One of the business sectors that rarely gets digital innovation is the sports business sector, such as the sports field rental business. The problem in this business is that there are still many business actors and their customers who carry out the conventional reservation process, namely by making books manually and this has an impact on the customer experience when conducting leasing transactions, and for business actors it also has an impact on financial recapitulation due to incorrect calculations. The purpose of this research is to develop an Android-based application that is able to provide a much faster and easier sports rental transaction process by integrating with firebase services (firebase authentication, firebase realtime database, firebase cloud messaging). This study uses the method of developing the Rapid Application Development system and in collecting data using qualitative methods, namely observation, interviews, and literature study. From this research, an android-based application has been successfully developed that is able to solve the problem of conventional sports facilities rental and minimize the occurrence of calculation errors in financial recapitulation by integrating it with firebase services.

Effects of a Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model Intervention in Competitive Youth Sport.

The aim of this study was to implement the teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) model in a competitive context analyzing the differences between the intervention and the control group on personal and social responsibility, prosocial behaviors, and self-efficacy in youth soccer players. Participants were 34 youth soccer players between the ages of 14 and 16 years old (15.18 ± 0.72) divided into two different soccer teams of 17 members, corresponding to the control and intervention groups. The implementation of the TPSR model took place during 9 months, including initial and ongoing coach training (3 months), program implementation (three sessions per week lasting 90 min during 6 months), and a series of expert-led seminars for athletes (one session per week lasting 90 min during 4 months). The questionnaires used to collect data were the Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire, Prosocial Behavior Scale, and two Children’s Self-efficacy Scales. Results indicated that the TPSR intervention group obtained an increase in post-test levels of personal and social responsibility, prosocial behavior, and self-efficacy due to the application of the TPSR model compared with control group that used a conventional sport teaching methodology. The conclusion is that the TPSR model has the potential to be adapted and implemented with flexibility in youth sport competition contexts in order to improve personal and social responsibility, prosocial behavior, and self-efficacy.

Synchronized Breathing with Pelvic Floor Contractions Increase the Lower Limb Power in Young Football Players

The aim of this study was to find out the most significant exercise training in improving lower limb power in young male football players. Sixty non-smoking young male football players with the mean age of 14.18 (0.79) years, were randomly allotted to four groups (Group A, B, C, D) of 15 players in each group. Lower limb power was assessed at baseline by vertical jump test. The Group A athletes were instructed to perform diaphragmatic breathing exercise with conventional sports training. Group B athletes instructed to do pelvic floor muscle exercise with conventional sports training. Group C athletes advised to do synchronized diaphragmatic breathing with pelvic floor contraction with conventional sports training and Group D (Control group) players received conventional sports training alone. The training regimen was scheduled for 15-minute length 5 times per week for 8 weeks, along with their 60-minute conventional sports training. Mid and post intervention assessment were carried out at the fourth week and the eighth week with similar baseline assessment regimen. The repeated measures of ANOVA exposed that, noticeable development in lower limb power was obvious amongst all of intervention groups, however post hoc analyses implicated that synchronized diaphragmatic breathing with pelvic floor contraction was advantageous in enhancing lower limb power than the pelvic floor exercise, diaphragmatic breathing exercise and conventional sports training (P<.05). Hence, synchronized diaphragmatic breathing with pelvic floor contraction training should be considered as a part of sports training to improve lower limb power.

PEMULIHAN SUHU TUBUH DAN DENYUT JANTUNG DENGAN METODE SPORT MASSAGE DAN STRETCHING STATIS SETELAH BERENANG

The aim of this study was to discover the difference in effectiveness between sports massage, stretching, and conventional recovery in healing body temperature and heart rate after swimming based on the gender of the child. This study used an experimental method with a 2x3 factorial design involving independent variables in the form of the effectiveness of conventional sports massage, stretching, and recovery, and the dependent variables in the form of body temperature and heart rate. We were found that the stretching technique was more effective in restoring body temperature. Meanwhile, conventional massage and recovery techniques are more effective in restoring heart rate. During the Covid-19 pandemic, trainees needed a faster recovery using sports massage and/or conventional recovery methods, to speed up recovery from fatigue and accelerate fitness improvement.

Application of diversified and quantitative management model of exercise intervention in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus

Objective: The study aims to explore the application of diversified and quantitative management model of exercise intervention in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods: From January 2018 to July 2018, 150 pregnant women with GDM were recruited from HangZhou Maternity Hospital, and were randomly divided into control group (n = 75) and experimental group (n = 75). All patients were registered pregnancy exercise self-efficacy scale (P-ESES), fasting blood glucose (FBG), and 2-hour postpranational blood glucose (2hPG). Patients in control group received conventional sports, while patients in experimental group added multiple quantitative exercise intervention management mode until delivery (accumulated at least 30 min per day, the time of not less than 150 min per week). After 4 weeks of intervention, patients in both groups were measured P-ESES, FBG, and 2hPG levels. Results: A total of 12 patients dropped out of the study, was lost to follow-up or was admitted to another hospital; therefore, 138 cases (68 vs. 70) were included in analysis. There was no significant difference of P-ESES, FBG, and 2hPG of patients in baseline. After four weeks intervention, compared with the control group, the P-ESES score was significantly increased (p<.05), the overcoming movement disorder, overcoming emotional disorder, and overcoming support disorder scores were significantly improved (p<.05), and the levels of FBG and 2hPG were significantly decreased (p<.05) in experimental group. Finally, the coincidence rate of weight gain during pregnancy was increased, the rate of macrosomia delivery and cesarean section were decreased in experimental group (p<.05). Conclusion: Quantitative management model of multiform exercise therapy improved patients with GDM.

Does anodal tDCS improve basketball performance? A randomized controlled trial

Shooting precision as well as dribbling and agility are crucial components of performance in basketball. We examined the effects of anodal tDCS over the dominant primary motor cortex in supporting these basketball specific abilities. Fifty-two sports students were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial with two interventions. Twenty minutes of anodal 1 mA tDCS/sham tDCS were applied over the primary motor cortex of the dominant hemisphere. Basketball shooting precision (basketball shooting accuracy test) and basketball specific dribbling and agility (Illinois ball-dribbling test) were tested prior and after each intervention. Basketball shooting precision and basketball specific dribbling and agility improved after real tDCS but not after sham tDCS. ANOVAs show significant intervention*time effects on both the shooting accuracy test (F 1,51 = 5.6; P = 0.022) and on the Illinois ball-dribbling test (F 1,51 = 4.5; P = 0.038). Anodal 1 mA tDCS over the dominant primary motor cortex is effective in supporting short-term performance in basketball. However, the available data is insufficient for application of this novel method within the framework of conventional sports training.

Synchronized Breathing with Pelvic Floor Contractions Expands Maximum Voluntary Ventilation in Young Soccer Players

The intention of this investigation was to decide the most significant exercise intervention in enhancing maximum voluntary ventilation in young male soccer players. Sixty non-smoking young male soccer players with the mean age of 14.18 (0.79) years, were randomly assigned to four groups (Group A, B, C, D) of 20 players in each group. Maximum voluntary ventilation was measured at baseline using digital pony FX micro spirometer. The Group A athletes were instructed to do diaphragmatic breathing exercise with conventional sports training. Group B athletes received pelvic floor muscle exercise with conventional sports training. Group C athletes received synchronized diaphragmatic breathing with pelvic floor contraction with conventional sports training and Group D (Control group) players received conventional sports training alone. The training protocol was designed for 15 minutes duration 5 times per week for 8 weeks, along with their 60 minutes conventional sports training. Mid and post intervention measurements were carried out at the fourth week and the eighth week with identical baseline assessment protocol. The repeated measures of ANOVA revealed that, marked improvement in maximum voluntary ventilation was evident amongst all of intervention groups except control group however post hoc analyses implicated that synchronized diaphragmatic breathing with pelvic floor contraction was beneficial in enhancing maximum voluntary ventilation than the pelvic floor exercise, diaphragmatic breathing exercise and conventional sports training (P<.05). Therefore, synchronized diaphragmatic breathing with pelvic floor contraction training should be considered as a part of sports training to improve maximum voluntary ventilation.

Live-Sportberichterstattung mit Kommentarfunktion aus kontrastiver Sicht am Beispiel der Tennis-Live-Ticker

Dynamic changes in professional communication mediated through digital media leads to a transformation of the existing types of text. This article focuses on the tennis live ticker as a new hybrid form of sports reporting, which gives internet and app users the opportunity to participate in a given sports event ‘just in time’ and to comment it online asynchronously. The non-linearity, multimodality, hypertextuality and the level of expertise represented by tennis-live-tickers require the recipient to be particularly interactive. In comparison to conventional sports reports and commentaries in the press or on television, the semiotic resources of the live ticker offer a unique way of conveying specialist content in digital media. The differences in the journalistic form of presentation, text structure and adaptation to the reception requirements of the medium are explored in the selected texts of the German and Polish tennis live tickers from online press and live score websites.

Request-a-bet sports betting products indicate patterns of bettor preference and bookmaker profits.

Background and aimsRequest-a-bet services are a modern gambling product delivered via the social network Twitter, which allow sports bettors to design custom bets. The public nature of Twitter data provided a unique opportunity to investigate patterns of bettor preference and the bookmaker profit margin in soccer, the UK’s favorite sport.MethodsTwo multi-method studies. Twitter users’ engagement with request-a-bet services was monitored unobtrusively (n = 1,406), meaning that potential patterns across users’ requests could be observed, and the bookmaker profit margin could be estimated. Twitter users were also surveyed directly (n = 55), providing self-report measures of request-a-bet usage.ResultsTwitter users requested bets with an average potential payoff of £56.5 per £1 risked (median = £9). Overall, 9.7% of requested bets paid-off, but these were mostly bets at short odds. This meant that requests yielded a high bookmaker profit margin of 43.7% (roughly eight times higher than current margins in conventional soccer bets), which increased to 74.6% for bets at longer odds. Requested bets also tended to involve star players from the best teams. Finally, 92.7% of surveyed Twitter users reported placing at least one bet via request-a-bet services (mean = 44.4 bets).Discussion and conclusionsResearchers can use request-a-bet products to increase their understanding of sports betting behavior. Sports bettors should be given information about how much higher the bookmaker profit margin can be in modern sports bets compared to the conventional sports bets that they may be more familiar with.

Produire des espaces sportifs décalés pour gérer un risque social: l’exemple du sport LGBT

The growing number of LGBT sports clubs and tournaments questions gender and sexuality related boundaries in cities. The specific spatial patterns, at various scales, create specific sporting sites and structures: temporarily isolated territories, and strong and resilient local and international networks. These sites are identified by more or less visible and symbolic territorial markers. Some practices highlight unquestioned ordinary habits and make visible the usual norms of conventional sport. The choice of creating protective but also politically significant territories underlines the paradox of a marginalization chosen in an attempt to reach more safety, combined with an objective of openness and of political statement by denunciating the normativity of the gendered urban and sporting spaces.

Ride Blending Control for Electric Vehicles

Vehicles equipped with in-wheel motors (IWMs) feature advanced control functions that allow for enhanced vehicle dynamics and stability. However, these improvements occur to the detriment of ride comfort due to the increased unsprung mass. This study investigates the driving comfort enhancement in electric vehicles that can be achieved through blended control of IWMs and active suspensions (ASs). The term “ride blending”, coined in a previous authors’ work and herein retained, is proposed by analogy with the brake blending to identify the blended action of IWMs and ASs. In the present work, the superior performance of the ride blending control is demonstrated against several driving manoeuvres typically used for the evaluation of the ride quality. The effectiveness of the proposed ride blending control is confirmed by the improved key performance indexes associated with driving comfort and active safety. The simulation results refer to the comparison of the conventional sport utility vehicle (SUV) equipped with a passive suspension system and its electric version provided with ride blending control. The simulation analysis is conducted with an experimentally validated vehicle model in CarMaker® and MATLAB/Simulink co-simulation environment including high-fidelity vehicle subsystems models.

Comparison of foot loading and foot strike pattern in women running in minimalist and conventional sports shoes

Background: At present, most runners use conventional sports shoes to protect and absorb the impacts that may cause overloading of the feet and joints. On the other hand, some runners tend to run almost barefoot or in minimalist footwear that may lead to foot strike pattern changes. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse and to compare the foot strike pattern and foot loading when running in conventional running shoes (CRS) and minimalist running shoes (MRS) in a group of recreational women runners. Methods: A group of 14 experienced recreational women runners participated in this research. A Pedar-X system (Novel, Munich, Germany) was used to analyse the interaction of the foot with the ground while running in different type of shoes from as it relates to vertical force and plantar pressure distribution. The participants ran over a distance of 100 m with their habitual foot strike pattern in minimalist and also in conventional running shoes and data was always obtained while running along a straight 50 m long section (v = 3.33 ± 0.2 m ⋅ s-1). For assessment of the temporal and kinetics variables differences, the Wilcoxon test and the unpaired t-tests were used. Results: Recreational women runners showed statistically significant shift of the plantar pressures towards the forefoot when running in MRS compared to CRS (p = .047). Duration of swing phase in MRS and in CRS was similar (p = .291). When running in MRS, foot loading during initial contact was significantly higher than when running in CRS. Loading in the area of midfoot and forefoot was significantly higher in MRS too. Conclusions: Runners shifted their foot strike pattern forward when running in MRS; running in MRS may increase the foot loading and we recommend the use of minimalist footwear only after adequate foot strengthening and adaptation to avoid possible risk of foot injuries.

ESports y deportes convencionales: cuestiones éticas y pedagógicas derivadas de la participación corporal

We are witnessing a new phenomenon problematically related to sports: eSports or electronic sports. In 2013 more than 71 million people watched competitive matches of eSports. In 2016 they generated a global market of over 490 million euros. Due to the important dimension that this phenomenon has acquired, the objective of the article is to make a hermeneutic analysis of the eSports in order to delimit their main differences with the conventional sport. Consequently, this conceptual analysis will allow us to discriminate the ethical and pedagogical problematization of the eSports. Particularly, the paper approaches the contrast among the concepts of eSports, games and sports, focusing on the model and meaning of the corporal participation that each one implies. In essence, it follows that eSports and sports are not the same thing. Despite the appearances and similarities, there is an intrinsic feature that differentiates eSports from sports: the meaning of corporal participation. Key words: game, body, sportsmanship, hermeneutics, pedagogy, electronic sport.