Feature Channels: Sports Medicine

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Latest research highlights from ACSM

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Latest research highlights from ACSM

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Devoted runners suffer from a surprisingly high rate of injury. One reason for these injuries is that runners endure many shocks from the impact of running, and these cause vibrations that travel from the foot throughout the entire body. Delphine Chadefaux, a post-doctoral researcher who focuses on acoustics and biomechanics, studies these repetitive shocks and investigates how runners adapt their running patterns according to running conditions and will share some of the insights from her research during Acoustics ’17 Boston.

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Warm weather and golfing go hand in hand. This summer, the American Chiropractic Association offers back injury prevention tips for the avid golfer

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Recognized for major achievements in sports medicine and the exercise sciences.

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Recognized for major achievements in sports medicine and the exercise sciences

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Recognized for major achievements in sports medicine and the exercise sciences

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Recognized for major achievement in sports medicine

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Recognized for major achievements in preserving the history of the American College of Sports Medicine

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A collaboration between the Tennessee Department of Health and the Program for Injury Prevention in Youth Sports (PIPYS) at Vanderbilt, Safe Stars is the nation’s first statewide safety rating system for all types of youth leagues.

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Recognized for major achievements in sports medicine and the exercise sciences

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Recognized for major achievement in sports medicine and the exercise sciences

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A discovery, described in a recent study by researchers at Beaumont Health, revealed ACL tears send a signal to stem cells throughout our body. This could lead to future breakthroughs to enable stem cells to repair injuries and reduce development of conditions like osteoarthritis.

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Youth football players are exposed to more and more forceful head impacts as they move up in age- and weight-based levels of play, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

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A new study explores common drive, the ability for your body to overcome the mind's willingness to collectively control muscles, rather than controlling them individually.

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Psychosocial characteristics influence whether you become an elite level football player of the future, according to research from Leeds Beckett University.

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A newly released hockey helmet has earned four out of five stars from the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings, scoring higher than any other helmet since the first hockey ratings were released two years ago.

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Despite the fact that distance runners swear by them, a new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center finds compression tights don’t help runners go farther or faster.

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Three players for the Washington Redskins joined UM alumnus Michael Wright, DDS ’99, MS, at the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry and at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry to raise awareness among youngsters and future dentists about the need to wear a mouth guard during sports activities.

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A new device gently suctions, processes and uses a patient’s own fat tissue to provide a potential source of stem cells and growth factors to promote healing.