Health

Are ACL tears really more common in women?

It may be hard to remember a time when it was uncommon for girls and women to play competitive sports, but it's not exactly ancient history. The 1972 passage of Title IX, which mandated equal access for women to participate ...

Health

Play sports for a healthier brain

There have been many headlines in recent years about the potentially negative impacts contact sports can have on athletes' brains. But a new Northwestern University study shows that, in the absence of injury, athletes across ...

Medical research

During sleep, brain regions synchronize to create motor memory

When the Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry makes a free throw, his brain draws on motor memory. Now researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shown how this type of memory is consolidated during sleep, when the brain processes ...

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Study shows a pre-game routine can boost an athlete's performance

(HealthDay)—NBA great Michael Jordan had a special ritual he would follow before every free throw: He would assume a shoulder-width stance, spin the basketball in his hands, bounce the ball three times, and then spin the ...

Health

Beta-alanine supplement considerably improves running performance

Supplementing runners with the naturally occurring amino acid beta-alanine considerably improved their performance over 800m according to a study aimed at field-testing laboratory research around the popular performance enhancing ...

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