Sport and Exercise Medicine
High performance athletes should avoid ketogenic diets
May 9th, 2018 Athletes who turn to ketogenic diets to help their performance in high-intensity, short duration sports may want to think again, according to research from Saint Louis University. In a small study, Dr Edward Weiss, associate professor of nutrition...Life-long exercise regime slows manifestations of ageing
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and King's College London have found that staying active slows the physical manifestations of ageing. The researchers set out to assess the health of older adults who had exercised most of their adult...Just a few minutes of light intensity exercise linked to lower death risk in older men
Clocking up just a few minutes at a time of any level of physical activity, to tally 150 minutes a week, is linked to a lower risk of death in older men, suggests research from University College London, University of Bristol, Brigham and Women’s...
Heat stroke victims should first be cooled on site
March 7th, 2018 Athletes who suffer life-threatening heat stroke should be cooled on site before they are taken to the hospital, according to an expert panel's report. The principle of "cool first, transport second" differs from the usual practice of calling...
Arm exercises improve walking ability after a stroke
February 14th, 2018 A Canadian study shows that arm exercises may improve walking ability months and even years after having a stroke. The study is the first to test the influence of arm training on post-stroke leg function. Researchers from the University of...Combo of minerals and other nutrients may boost performance
Women who took a specially prepared blend of minerals and nutrients for a month saw their 3-mile run times drop by almost a minute, a small Ohio State University study found. The women who took the supplement also saw improvements in distance...Exercise slows early-stage Parkinson's disease progression
A team of researchers at Northwestern Medicine and the University of Colorado School of Medicine wanted to find out whether high- or moderate-intensity exercise was safe for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Would it help with the disease’s...
Women have faster oxygen uptake than men
December 13th, 2017 Women can process oxygen 'remarkably faster' than men when they start to exercise, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. Quick oxygen uptake places less strain on the body's cells and is considered an important measure of aerobic...Endurance training helps with muscle inflammation
Endurance training can actually be helpful in dealing with muscle inflammation, according to a paper co-written by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in...High level exercise link to increased coronary plaque in white men
White men who exercise at high levels are 86% more likely than people who exercise at low levels to experience coronary artery calcification by middle age, a confounding US cohort study suggests. The study looked at the physical activity...
Brain stimulation boosts cyclists' endurance
October 25th, 2017 Brain stimulation has been demonstrated to be an effective way to improve endurance in cyclists, in a small placebo-controlled study from the University of Kent. The findings are expected to advance our understanding of the brain's role in...HiRIT safe for post-menopausal women with low bone mass
Contrary to current opinion, High-intensity resistance and impact training (HiRIT) was efficacious and induced no adverse events for otherwise healthy post-menopausal women with low to very low bone mass. Exercise is known to be beneficial to...
In middle-age maintenance of BMI linked to increased step count
October 4th, 2017 Finnish data suggests that increasing steps, rather than maintaining step count, in middle age is associated with maintaining BMI at the same level. The faculty of sport and health sciences at the University of Jyväskylä has examined how...
Elite athletes especially excel at beating the drug tests
September 13th, 2017 A scientific study has found that doping is far more common in professional sport than the rates suggested by blood and urine tests of the athletes. The study found that at least 30% of athletes in the 2011 International Association of Athletics...Non-pharmacological therapies for chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms
Graded exercise self-help (GES) is a safe intervention to reduce fatigue and, to a lesser extent, physical disability for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, found the GETSET trial. Researchers led by Lucy Clark at the Centre for Psychiatry,...