Applied Sports Science Weekly Digest #328

The impact of videogames on the mood of amateur youth players during consecutive games

“Pre-match mood does not influence post-match performance, but mood changes do occur between successive matches depending on the outcome of the match.“

Identification of key somatic features that are common and the ones that differ between swim strokes through allometric modeling

“All these predictors were common to all four swim strokes and medley. Arm length was also retained as a significant predictor, but this one varied significantly between the four different swim strokes and medley.“

Injury incidence and Severity in Chinese pre-professional dancers: a prospective weekly monitoring survey

“The injury incidence found in this study (5.1 injuries/1000hrs) is higher than most previous sets of data. Female dancers are at a higher risk of injury and reported higher levels of injury severity than male dancers, especially for the female adolescent group.“

An acute exercise at low to moderate intensity attenuated postprandial lipemia and insulin responses

“The results suggest that exercising at low to moderate exercise intensity for 1 h sufficiently attenuates a fat meal induced PHTG. Moderate exercise intensity also effectively mitigates insulin resistance.”

Influence of foot strike patterns and cadences on patellofemoral joint stress in male runners with patellofemoral pain

“Preliminary findings provide new perspectives for male runners with PFP to unload patellofemoral joint stress in managing PFP through the combination of the FFS pattern and increased cadence.“