Characteristics of transplant athletes competing at national and international transplant games.

Objective: To describe the characteristics of athletes with solid-organ transplants (TxA) attending the British and World Transplant Games.

Methods: 220 TxA completed an online survey to explore transplant history, medications, training advice and support and limitations to training.

Results: TxA were predominantly caucasian, male, kidney recipients in their mid-forties and approximately 11 years post-transplant.

Physiological Responses to Treadmill Running With Body Weight Support in Hypoxia Compared With Normoxia.

Context: Anecdotal reports suggest elite sports clubs combine lower-body positive-pressure rehabilitation with a hypoxic stimulus to maintain or increase physiological and metabolic strain, which are reduced during lower-body positive pressure. However, the effects of hypoxia on cardiovascular and metabolic response during lower-body positive-pressure rehabilitation are unknown.

Objective: Evaluate the use of normobaric hypoxia as a means to increase physiological strain during body-weight-supported (BWS) running.