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  • 2019, October

    original research

    The Relationship between Pre-Season Testing Performance and Playing Time among NCAA Division II Men’s Soccer Athletes Over a Competitive Season: A Pilot AnalysisOpen Access
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    Aim

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between pre-season testing performance and playing time within a Division II men’s soccer team over a competitive season.

    Methods

    Data was collected from pre-season athletic performance testing data for 13 male National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II men’s soccer players (age=20±1.5-years; height=180±6 cm; weight=75±7 kg), and was analyzed to determine if relationships existed between physical performance tests (countermovement jump height, peak anaerobic power in watts derived from jump height], change-of-direction performance (505-agility, modified T-test), linear speed (10 m and 30 m sprint intervals), and aerobic fitness (20 m multi-stage fitness test), and playing time over a collegiate season were provided by the University’s coaching staff and retrospectively analyzed.

    Results

    A Pearson’s moment correlations correlation revealed significant (p<0.05) moderate relationships between playing time and 10 m speed (r=-0.569) only.

    Discussion

    These results suggest that linear speed, in particular acceleration over short distance, could be a key characteristic that has some influence on playing time for Division II men’s soccer players.

    Conclusion

    Pre-season testing of soccer players is commonly used to assess athletic potential. Minimal research has investigated the associations between these tests and playing time over the course of a collegiate season.

    Keywords

    Aerobic capacity; Power; Speed; Agility; National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

  • 2019, June

    original research

    Changes in Blood Bone Metabolism Markers with Oat Bran Consumption and Brisk Walking Exercise in Middle Age Hypercholesterolemic WomenOpen Access
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    Purpose
    To investigate the additional beneficial effects of combined oat bran consumption and brisk walking exercise compared to oat bran consumption alone on bone metabolism markers in 40 to 50 years-old hypercholesterolemic women.

    Methods
    Thirty-three hypercholesterolemic women participants aged 40 to 50-years-old were recruited and were assigned into three groups, with eleven participants per group (n=11): sedentary without oat bran consumption control (C), oat bran consumption alone (Ob), and combined oat bran consumption and brisk walking exercise (ObEx) groups. Participants in the ObEx group performed brisk walking exercise sessions 30 minutes per session, 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks. Participants in the Ob group and ObEx group consumed 18 g of oat bran powder, 7 days per week for 6 weeks. Participants’ anthropometry and blood bone metabolism markers were measured at pre- and post-tests.

    Results
    There were no significant main effects of time (p>0.05) in serum total calcium, serum phosphorus and serum C-terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen (1CTP) (bone resorption marker) concentrations in all the groups. However, significantly (p<0.05) increase in serum alkaline phosphatase (bone formation marker) concentration was observed in Ob group and ObEx group respectively.

    Conclusion
    The present observations did not show large difference in the beneficial effects of combined oat bran consumption and brisk walking compared to oat bran consumption alone on bone metabolism markers. Future studies with longer duration may be needed to elicit greater effects of combined oat bran consumption and brisk walking than oat bran consumption alone on bone metabolism markers in middle age hypercholesterolemic women.

    Keywords
    Bone metabolism; Brisk walking; Hypercholesterolemic; Oat bran consumption; Middle age women.

About the Journal

Sports and Exercise Medicine – Open Journal (SEMOJ), often termed as sports medicine, deals with the physical fitness, treatment, and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise.

Earlier, physicians who were trained professionally and deployed in the sports teams to treat injuries caused during a game. In the late 20th-century sports medicine emerged as a distinct field and significant efforts have been made within the public health community to encourage people to become more physically active.

SEM specialists are pioneers in diagnosing and treating any condition encountered during regular exercises or sports activity. Such physicians treat musculoskeletal injuries apart from the other conditions such as exercise-induced asthma, diabetes in sports, female athlete triad, screening cardiac abnormalities, unexplained underperformance syndrome, etc.

However, Openventio aims at the widespread propagation of sports and exercise medicine and research through its Open Access (OA) journal for the welfare of the sports community.

Aims and Scope

Sports and Exercise Medicine – Open Journal (SEMOJ) is dedicated to the open dissemination and robust discussion of the techniques used involving medical care of injury and illness in sport.

SEMOJ covers a wide array of subjects as given below

  • Physical fitness
  • Sports physiotherapy
  • Kinesiology
  • Sports injuries and management
  • Exercise medicine
  • Physical activity and weight management
  • Diet and supplements in sports and exercise
  • Sports biomechanics
  • Sports law
  • Sports rehabilitation
  • Sports nutrition
  • Exercise physiology
  • Performance endurance and testing
  • Health promotion
  • Sports and disability

Submissions for this journal are accepted from the very basic sports and exercise medicine research to the novel advancements.

The audience of SEMOJ encompasses all medical professionals involved in the training and care of the competitive and recreational athlete, including orthopedic surgeons, sports scientists, podiatrists, physiatrists, dentists, dietitians, primary care physicians, optometrists, exercise physiologists, athletic trainers, physical therapists, nurses, and others.

The journal welcomes all types of articles such as original research, review, case-report, mini-review, editorial, short-communication, book-review, opinion, commentary, letter to the editor, conference, proceedings, technical report, errata, and illustrations.

We are open to receive comments and corrections from subject experts to improve the quality of our journal.