Cricket related hand injury is associated with increased odds of hand pain and osteoarthritis.

Radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) is most prevalent in the hand. The association of hand injury with pain or OA is unclear. The objective was to describe the relationship between hand injury and ipsilateral pain and OA in cricketers.

Health-related quality of life and flourishing in current and former recreational and elite cricketers.

Background: Health related quality of life (HRQoL) and flourishing are constructs that encompasses a holistic representation of physical, psychological, and social health. The underlying psychological factors that can affect HRQoL and flourishing in sports participants is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to i) evaluate HRQoL (physical and mental-components) and flourishing in recreational and elite and current and former cricketers; ii) determine the effect of resilience, playing-standard, and playing status on HRQoL and flourishing in cricketers.

Playing sport injured is associated with osteoarthritis, joint pain and worse health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Sports participants are faced with the decision to continue or cease play when injured. The implications of playing sport while injured on joint health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between having played sport while injured and HRQoL, osteoarthritis, and persistent joint pain; and compare findings in elite and recreational cricketers.

The prevalence of hand and wrist osteoarthritis in elite former cricket and rugby union players.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of hand and wrist osteoarthritis in former elite cricket and rugby union players, by sport and playing position, and to define the prevalence of severe hand injury, and its association with hand osteoarthritis.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Methods: Data from cross-sectional studies of former elite male cricket and rugby players were used to determine the prevalence of hand pain, physician-diagnosed osteoarthritis, and previous severe injury.

Osteoarthritis and other long-term health conditions in former elite cricketers.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe the prevalence and risk of chronic conditions in former elite cricketers compared to a normal population, and describe wellbeing in former elite cricketers.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Former elite cricketers, recruited from the Professional Cricketers' Association, completed a self-report cross-sectional questionnaire.

A Catecholamine Precursor Does Not Influence Exercise Performance in Warm Conditions.

Purpose: Acute doses of Sinemet® (L-DOPA combined with carbidopa) previously failed to influence prolonged exercise performance in a temperate environment, but it is not known whether acute doses of L-DOPA timed to reach maximum plasma concentrations (Cmax) during exercise will improve prolonged cycling performance in warm conditions (30.2°C ± 0.2°C, 50% ± 1%).

Finite element investigation of the effect of a bifid arch on loading of the vertebral isthmus.

Background: The biomechanical effect of a bifid arch as seen in spina bifida occulta and following a midline laminectomy is poorly understood.

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that fatigue failure limits will be exceeded in the case of a bifid arch, but not in the intact case, when the segment is subjected to complex loading corresponding to normal sporting activities.

Study Design: Finite element analysis.

Exercise with low muscle glycogen augments TCA cycle anaplerosis but impairs oxidative energy provision in humans.

We tested the hypotheses that: (i) exercise with low muscle glycogen would reduce pyruvate flux through the alanine aminotransferase (AAT) reaction and attenuate the increase in tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediates, and (ii) attenuation of tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediate (TCAI) pool expansion would limit TCA cycle flux, thereby accelerating phosphocreatine (PCr) degradation. Eight men cycled for 10 min at 70 % of their (VO(2,max) on two occasions: (i) following their normal diet (CON) and (ii) after cycling to exhaustion and consuming a low carbohydrate diet for approximately 2 days (LG). Biopsies (m.