German translation and content validation of the OSTRC Questionnaire on overuse injuries and health problems.

Objective: The aim of this study was to translate, culturally adapt and validate the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC) Questionnaire on Health Problems into the German context.

Methods: A slightly modified back-translation method was used to translate the questionnaire. Validation was done in 24 high-level Paralympic athletes followed over 20 consecutive weeks.

Stereological study on the rat heart in chronic alimentary thiamine deficiency--absence of myocardial changes despite starvation.

Young male Wistar rats were fed with a thiamine-free diet for 35 days. The growth of the thiamine-deficient animals was considerably suppressed, as compared to a pair-fed control group (body weights: 140.4 +/- 4.