Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine
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Practice Guideline Comparative Study Guideline
Agreement statement from the 1st international rodeo research and clinical care conference: calgary, alberta, Canada (july 7-9, 2004).
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To examine the effect of duration and frequency of exercise on weight loss and cardiorespiratory fitness in previously sedentary, overweight, women. ⋯ Sedentary overweight women lost weight and improved cardiorespiratory fitness in a year-long combined dietary and exercise regimen. Duration of exercise (at least 150 min/week of walking) was more important than vigorous versus moderate intensity in achieving these goals.
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To determine current outcomes of automated external defibrillator (AED) interventions in sports medicine programs in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) division I athletics. ⋯ The results of this study demonstrate the need for NCAA division 1 athletic sports medicine programs to examine, and possibly expand, the traditional scope of practice of caring primarily for student athletes to include the larger community of sports participants comprised of athletes, departmental staff, and spectators. Athletic department AED programs were extremely successfully at increasing survival of SCD far above national prehospital standards, mainly in the nonathletic population. Further study is also necessary in the realm of AED placement, maintenance, and training of staff.
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To measure and analyze head accelerations during American collegiate football practices and games. ⋯ The primary finding of this study is that the helmet-mounted accelerometer system proved effective at collecting thousands of head impact events and providing contemporaneous head impact parameters that can be integrated with existing clinical evaluation techniques.