Sport and Health Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Agreement Between Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry and Quantitative Ultrasound to Evaluate Bone Health in Adolescents: The PRO-BONE Study.
(Human Kinetics, 2018-05-26)PURPOSE: The present study aims to investigate the association between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and quantitative ultrasound (QUS) parameters and the intermethods agreement in active males. METHODS: In this ... -
Agreement Between Standard Body Composition Methods to Estimate Percentage of Body Fat in Young Male Athletes.
(Human Kinetics, 2018-03-15)PURPOSE: To examine the intermethods agreement of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and foot-to-foot bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) to assess the percentage of body fat (%BF) in young male athletes using ... -
Are we overestimating Physical Activity prevalence in children?
(Human Kinetics, 2018)Background: Physical activity guidelines state that children should achieve at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) on each day of the week. Accurate assessment of adherence to these ... -
Wrist-worn accelerometry for runners: Objective quantification of training load
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018)Purpose: This study aimed to apply open-source analysis code to raw habitual physical activity data from wrist-worn monitors to: 1) objectively, unobtrusively and accurately discriminate between ‘running’ and ‘non-running’ ... -
A randomised trial of observational learning from 2D and 3D models in robotically assisted surgery.
(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2018-05-14)BACKGROUND: Advances in 3D technology mean that both robotic surgical devices and surgical simulators can now incorporate stereoscopic viewing capabilities. While depth information may benefit robotic surgical performance, ... -
Prolonged forearm ischemia attenuates endothelium-dependent vasodilatation and plasma nitric oxide metabolites in overweight middle-aged men
(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2018-05-21)PURPOSE: Repeated cycles of endothelial ischemia-reperfusion injury and the resulting respiratory burst contribute to the irreversible pathophysiology of vascular diseases, and yet, the effects of ischemia reperfusion on ... -
Nitrate-responsive oral microbiome modulates nitric oxide homeostasis and blood pressure in humans
(Elsevier, 2018-05-25)Imbalances in the oral microbial community have been associated with reduced cardiovascular and metabolic health. A possible mechanism linking the oral microbiota to health is the nitrate (NO3-)-nitrite (NO2-)-nitric oxide ... -
Assessment of Maximal Isometric Hand Grip Strength in School-aged Children.
(De Gruyter Open, 2018-03-15)Background: Hand grip strength (HGS) test is commonly used as an indicator of overall muscle strength in medical and sport practices. Recently, several studies have proposed that the measurement of the maximal HGS depends ... -
Mindfulness mediates the relationship between mental toughness and pain catastrophizing in cyclists
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-06-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the direction and magnitude of the relationship between mental toughness and pain catastrophizing and to explore whether mindfulness mediated this relationship. The design of the ... -
Age-Associated Impairments in Mitochondrial ADP Sensitivity Contribute to Redox Stress in Senescent Human Skeletal Muscle.
(Elsevier (Cell Press), 2018-03-13)It remains unknown if mitochondrial bioenergetics are altered with aging in humans. We established an in vitro method to simultaneously determine mitochondrial respiration and H2O2emission in skeletal muscle tissue across ... -
An exploration of game-strategy efficacy beliefs in UK youth sport coaches
(British Psychological Society, 2018-04-01)In the sport domain, game-strategy efficacy is the belief that coaches can lead teams or athletes to a successful performance in competition. Developmentally-focused youth sport coaches, however, may define success differently ... -
An examination of developmental assets and academic performance in higher education sport students
(Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE), 2018-04-30)The purpose of this research was to explore the magnitude and direction of the relationship between developmental assets (subcategories and domain levels) and academic achievement in British students. Based on the existing ... -
Effects of self-paced interval and continuous training on health markers in women
(Springer Verlag, 2017-09-20)PURPOSE: To compare the effects of self-paced high-intensity interval and continuous cycle training on health markers in premenopausal women. METHODS: Forty-five inactive females were randomised to a high-intensity interval ... -
A single day of bed rest, irrespective of energy balance, does not affect skeletal muscle gene expression or insulin sensitivity
(Wiley, 2018-04-18)The initial metabolic and molecular events that underpin disuse-induced skeletal muscle deconditioning, and the contribution of energy balance, remain to be investigated. Ten young, healthy males (age: 25 ± 1 y; BMI: 25.3 ... -
Dose-dependent effects of dietary nitrate on the oxygen cost of moderate-intensity exercise: Acute vs. chronic supplementation
(Elsevier for Nitric Oxide Society, 2016-04-14)PURPOSE: To investigate whether chronic supplementation with a low or moderate dose of dietary nitrate (NO3(-)) reduces submaximal exercise oxygen uptake (V˙O2) and to assess whether or not this is dependent on acute NO3(-) ... -
Reliability of autonomic and vascular components of baroreflex sensitivity in adolescents.
(Wiley, 2018-02-23)Improvements in the autonomic and vascular systems are implicated in cardiovascular disease risk reduction. Baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) is composed of vascular and autonomic components. This study aimed to investigate ... -
Coordination in gait: Demonstration of a spectral approach
(Taylor & Francis for British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, 2017-12-15)Many important notions in Life Sciences are linked with the idea of cycles, periodicity, fluctuations and transitions. The aim of this paper is to use spectral analysis in a unique way to study and quantify whole body ... -
Biomechanical differences between cases with chronic exertional compartment syndrome and asymptomatic controls during walking and marching gait
(Elsevier, 2017-10)Chronic exertional compartment syndrome is a significant problem in military populations that may be caused by specific military activities. This study aimed to investigate the kinematic and kinetic differences in military ... -
Biomechanical differences between cases with suspected chronic exertional compartment syndrome and asymptomatic controls during running.
(Elsevier, 2017-08-30)Chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) has been hypothesised, following clinical observations, to be the result of abnormal biomechanics predominantly at the ankle. Treatment of CECS through running re-education ... -
Plantar pressure differences between cases with symptoms of clinically diagnosed chronic exertional compartment syndrome and asymptomatic controls.
(Elsevier, 2017-10-02)BACKGROUND: Anterior chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the leg has been hypothesised to develop due to excessive muscle activity and foot pronation. Plantar pressure variables related to lower limb muscle activity ...