Enhancing our understanding of sport practitioner perspectives on developing effective sporting environments.

Research has increasingly focused on the environmental features within talent and performance development settings. However, practitioner perspectives on their role in optimizing these environments are scarce. This study aimed to examine practitioner perspectives of the role of the environment, specifically, how they plan, deliver and review (p-D-R) to optimize environmental conditions for athletes.

50 Years of Research on the Psychology of Sport Injury: A Consensus Statement.

Factors influencing sport injury risk, rehabilitation outcomes, and return to sport processes have been the focus in various research disciplines (sports medicine, psychology and sociology). One discipline, with over 50 years of scholarship, is the psychology of sport injury. Despite the research in this field, there is no evidence-based consensus to inform professional practice.

M.O.I.S.T. Concept for the Local Therapy of Chronic Wounds: An International Update.

Chronic wounds remain a significant clinical challenge both for those affected and for healthcare systems. The treatment is often comprised and complex. All patients should receive wound care that is integrated into a holistic approach involving local management that addresses the underlying etiology and provides for gold standard therapy to support healing, avoid complications and be more cost effective.

The effectiveness of hydrotherapy on return to play in sports following hip arthroscopic surgery: a comparative study.

Background: The postoperative management of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is variable with favourable surgical outcomes. Yet there is no evidence on the efficacy of hydrotherapy in athletes undergoing hip arthroscopy for FAI. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role and the impact of hydrotherapy on return to sports following hip arthroscopy for symptomatic FAI.

Examining European Talent Development Environments: Athlete, Parent and Coach Perceptions.

Talent Development Environments (TDEs) aim to provide the appropriate conditions for youth athletes to realise their full sporting potential. How TDEs are designed and operated is therefore of great importance for the development of elite athletes. Stakeholders are vital in this process, yet their perspectives are poorly understood.

The chlorophenoxy herbicide MCPA: a mechanistic basis for the observed differences in toxicological profile in humans and rats versus dogs.

Metabolism data for MCPA in rat, dog and human shows a single oral dose is quantitatively and rapidly absorbed with evidence of non-linear kinetics at >100 mg/kg bw. The extent of metabolism is low and consistent between rat and human, with substantially higher metabolic conversion in dog. Parent accounts for 50%-67% dose in rat, ∼40% in human and 2%-27% in dog.

Understanding the Relationship between Sport Courage and Female Soccer Performance Variables.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between female soccer players’ courage and key performance variables (level of participation, injury past, being selected or non-selected by a national team, being starter or substitute). Methods: The Sport Courage Scale-31, by Konter and Ng (2012) and key performance variables were collected from 210 female soccer players aged 12 to 27 (M = 17.97 ± 3.

Perceived Social Support, Reinjury Anxiety, and Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport in Soccer Players.

The burden of sports injury in soccer is high, and return to sport outcomes following injury are often poor. This is compounded by a current lack of understanding surrounding the factors that may optimize psychological readiness to return to sport. Consequently, in the present study, we aim to further our understanding of these issues by examining the role of perceived social support in predicting psychological readiness to return to sport.

Psychological interventions used to reduce sports injuries: a systematic review of real-world effectiveness.

Objective: To systematically review studies examining the role of psychological interventions in injury prevention. The primary research question was: What is the real-world effectiveness of psychological intervention in preventing sports injuries?

Design: Mixed methods systematic review with best evidence synthesis.

Data Sources: CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, Science Direct and PubMed.

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa.

The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa, and in particular its Still Bay and Howiesons Poort lithic traditions, represents a period of dramatic subsistence, cultural, and technological innovation by our species, Homo sapiens. Climate change has frequently been postulated as a primary driver of the appearance of these innovative behaviours, with researchers invoking either climate instability as a reason for the development of buffering mechanisms, or environmentally stable refugia as providing a stable setting for experimentation. Testing these alternative models has proved intractable, however, as existing regional palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental records remain spatially, stratigraphically, and chronologically disconnected from the archaeological record.

Psychosocial factors associated with outcomes of sports injury rehabilitation in competitive athletes: a mixed studies systematic review.

Background: The prime focus of research on sports injury has been on physical factors. This is despite our understanding that when an athlete sustains an injury it has psychosocial as well as physical impacts. Psychosocial factors have been suggested as prognostic influences on the outcomes of rehabilitation.

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka.

Human occupation of tropical rainforest habitats is thought to be a mainly Holocene phenomenon. Although archaeological and paleoenvironmental data have hinted at pre-Holocene rainforest foraging, earlier human reliance on rainforest resources has not been shown directly. We applied stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis to human and faunal tooth enamel from four late Pleistocene-to-Holocene archaeological sites in Sri Lanka.

Immunohistochemistry for CDX2 expression in non-goblet-cell Barrett's oesophagus.

Interest has increased in CDX2 gene expression in oesophageal non-goblet-cell columnar metaplasia as recent investigations indicate such metaplasia possesses neoplastic potential. This study aims to assess expression of the transcription factor CDX2 specifically in non-goblet-cell cardia and fundic oesophageal metaplastic tissue, and to compare the location of CDX2 expression in non-goblet-cell specimens to that in goblet-cell specimens. A total of 43 patient specimens (20 fundic-type metaplasia, 42 cardia-type metaplasia and 18 intestinal metaplasia goblet cell-positive) were examined in this study.

Long-term resilience of late holocene coastal subsistence system in Southeastern South america.

Isotopic and molecular analysis on human, fauna and pottery remains can provide valuable new insights into the diets and subsistence practices of prehistoric populations. These are crucial to elucidate the resilience of social-ecological systems to cultural and environmental change. Bulk collagen carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of 82 human individuals from mid to late Holocene Brazilian archaeological sites (∼6,700 to ∼1,000 cal BP) reveal an adequate protein incorporation and, on the coast, the continuation in subsistence strategies based on the exploitation of aquatic resources despite the introduction of pottery and domesticated plant foods.

Disturbed eating behaviours and thoughts in Australian adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Aim: To describe the presence and type of disturbed eating behaviours and thoughts in a combined male/female Australian sample of adolescents with type 1 diabetes, and examine the association of eating behaviours and thoughts with glycaemic control as evidenced by high glycosylated haemoglobin levels (HbA1c).

Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 124 adolescents aged 13-18  years were invited to complete three self-administered questionnaires. The Youth Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (YEDE-Q) and the Eating Disorder Inventory -3 Risk Composite (EDI-3RC) assessed risk for an eating disorder.

Concurrent validity of self-report measures of eating disorders in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Aim: Eating disorder screening tools have not been adequately validated for use with adolescents with type 1 diabetes. This study compared the Youth Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (YEDE-Q) and the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 Risk Composite (EDI-3RC) against the child Eating Disorder Examination (chEDE). These screening tools were chosen because they broadly assess eating disorder psychopathology and have subscales helpful for clinical management.