Carbohydrate dependence during hard-intensity exercise in trained cyclists in the competitive season: importance of training status.

To test the hypothesis that intensive endurance training increases CHO utilisation during hard-intensity exercise, seven competitive road cyclists (Cy) performed three 50-min steady-state exercise tests on a cycle ergometer above their ventilatory threshold (+ 15 %) over the course of a cycling season (January [ET1], May [ET2] and September [ET3]). We compared the data with the baseline values of seven sedentary controls (Sed). CHO oxidation in Cy was higher in ET2 and ET3 than in ET1 (p < 0.

[Primary algodystrophy of the elbow: an unusual location].

The elbow is a location where algodystrophy is rarely established. When algodystrophy affects the elbow it usually does it in a secondary way, being part of a shoulder-hand syndrome. However the original affectation of the elbow, outside this context, is even more exceptional.

[A diagnostic pitfall in sports pathology: false phlebitis and ruptures of varicose veins in the calf].

Many of the injuries suffered by today's athletes are sited in the Triceps Surae. The most common of these are the rupture of the Achilles Tendon and the disinsertion of the inferior Gemellus muscle. The clinical diagnosis is straightforward, based as it is on the sudden appearance of certain conditions: pain, disablement, haematoma, and sometimes laceration.