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Predicting ACL Injury Using Machine Learning on Data From an Extensive Screening Test Battery of 880 Female Elite Athletes
2022
Background: Injury risk prediction is an emerging field in which more research is needed to recognize the best practices for accurate injury risk assessment. Important issues related to predictive machine learning need to be considered, for example, to avoid overinterpreting the observed prediction performance. Purpose: To carefully investigate the predictive potential of multiple predictive machine learning methods on a large set of risk factor data for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury; the proposed approach takes into account the effect of chance and random variations in prediction performance. Study Design: Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: The authors used 3-dime…
Cultural sport psychology: a critical review of empirical advances
2016
Despite a long standing assertion that sociocultural domain is one of the factors constituting human psychological phenomena, sport psychological science has only recently begun to examine culture as the principal basis of physical activity and sport participants’ behaviour, wellbeing, engagement, and performance outcomes. Emphasizing the centrality of culture in bringing meaning to athlete careers and life projects, I summarise empirical literature explicitly positioned within cultural sport psychology (CSP). Specifically, I focus on two areas of psychological inquiry – acculturation and athletic career – in which the CSP theoretical tenets and agenda stimulated emergence of novel research…
Change of Direction Biomechanics in a 180-Degree Pivot Turn and the Risk for Noncontact Knee Injuries in Youth Basketball and Floorball Players.
2021
Background: Studies investigating biomechanical risk factors for knee injuries in sport-specific tasks are needed. Purpose: To investigate the association between change of direction (COD) biomechanics in a 180-degree pivot turn and knee injury risk among youth team sport players. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. Methods: A total of 258 female and male basketball and floorball players (age range, 12-21 years) participated in the baseline COD test and follow-up. Complete data were obtained from 489 player-legs. Injuries, practice, and game exposure were registered for 12 months. The COD test consisted of a quick ball pass before and after a high-speed 180-degree pivot turn o…
Athletic career transition : a qualitative inquiry into ex-athletes' experiences of the sports system in Singapore
2012
Anecdotally, studies on athletic career development and/ or transition revealed that athletes tend to have difficulty immersing their lifestyle into the societal norm after the termination of their athletic career. Based on a cross-cultural study by Alfermann & Stambulova (2002), the phenomenon of athletes coping with this change is no different whether it is voluntary or involuntary termination, and whether the country’s existing sports system does provide assistance in their transitions; within or out of the athletic career. There is a lack of research and empirical evidence to support these claims. The purpose of the study was to qualitatively explore ex athletes’ experiences in their at…
Relationship between coaching climates and student-athletes’ symptoms of burnout in school and sports
2020
The purpose of the present study was to investigate (a) what kind of coaching climates experienced by student-athletes can be found in sports high schools in Finland and (b) how these coaching climates are related to student-athletes’ symptoms of burnout in sports and in school. A total of 414 student-athletes, aged 17–18 years, from 7 sports high schools participated in this study. In addition to background information, the participants completed questionnaires concerning the perceived coaching climate and symptoms of burnout in both school and sports environments. By using latent profile analysis, 4 groups of experienced coaching climates were identified: extremely disempowering, disempow…
Haemoglobin, iron status and lung function of adolescents participating in organised sports in the Finnish Health Promoting Sports Club Study
2020
ObjectivesTo compare laboratory test results and lung function of adolescent organised sports participants (SP) with non-participants (NP).MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, laboratory tests (haemoglobin, iron status), and flow-volume spirometry were performed on SP youths (199 boys, 203 girls) and their NP peers (62 boys, 114 girls) aged 14–17.ResultsHaemoglobin concentration <120/130 g/L was found in 5.8% of SP and 5.1% NP (OR 1.20, 95% CI 0.54 to 2.68). Ferritin concentration below 15 µg/L was found in 22.7% of both SP and NP girls. Among boys ferritin <30 µg/L was found in 26.5% of SP and 30.2% of NP (OR 0.76, 95% CI 0.40 to 1.47). Among SP iron supplement use was reported by 3…
The Philosophical Underpinning of Athlete Lifestyle Support : An Existential-Humanistic Perspective
2022
This study aims to highlight how an existential-humanistic perspective can inform athlete support and in doing so, emphasise the importance of explicating the philosophical underpinnings of athlete lifestyle support. Drawing on applied experience with elite youth cricketers over a twelve-month period, ethnographic data was collected through the observation, maintenance of case notes and a practitioner reflective diary. Based on thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), we created three non-fictional vignettes that we use to illustrate how existential-humanistic theorising can inform lifestyle support. We discuss the implications of this professional philosophy in terms of considerations for…
Urheilemalla ura urkenee? : entisten huippu-urheilijoiden siirtyminen työelämään ja heidän esimiestensä näkemyksiä huippu-urheilijoista työelämässä
2013
Huippu-urheilu on edelleen tärkeässä roolissa suomalaisille ja urheilijoiden menestymistä kansainvälisellä tasolla toivotaan kaikissa maamme ikäryhmissä. Urheilu-uran päättyminen ja työelämään siirtyminen on kuitenkin haasteellinen vaihe usean huippu-urheilijan elämässä, sillä urheilu-urien aikana urheilijoilla on harvoin aikaa olla normaalissa palkkatyössä. Tutkimusta varten haastateltiin kuusi entistä huippu-urheilijaa, jotka kaikki olivat kilpailleet yksilölajeissa. Lisäksi jokaisen huippu-urheilijan esimiestä haastateltiin tutkimusta varten. Haastattelut toteutettiin teemahaastatteluina. Tässä tutkimuksessa on pyritty selvittämään huippu-urheilijoiden tärkeimpiä sidosryhmiä heidän urhei…
The role of adolescent athletes' task value patterns in their educational and athletic career aspirations
2018
Abstract The present study examined the stability and change in task value patterns that Finnish student-athletes (n = 391) show during their first two years in upper secondary sport school and the extent to which these patterns, and changes in them, are associated with students' future educational and athletic career aspirations . By using latent profile analysis , three different and highly stable motivational patterns were identified among adolescents: (1) a dual motivated pattern, characterized by high value placed on both school and sport; (2) a low academically motivated pattern, characterized by a high value placed on sport but a low value on school; and (3) a relatively low sport m…
Entisten suomalaisten huippu-urheilijoiden alkoholinkäyttö ja alkoholisairauksien riski
2016
Kontro, T. 2016. Entisten suomalaisten huippu-urheilijoiden alkoholinkäyttö ja alkoholisairauksien riski. Terveystieteiden laitos, Jyväskylän yliopisto, liikuntalääketieteen pro gradu -tutkielma, 69 s., 7 liitettä. Tutkimuksen tausta ja tarkoitus: Haitallinen alkoholinkäyttö on globaali ongelma. Myös entisten huippu-urheilijoiden alkoholinkäytöstä on keskusteltu mediassa paljon, mutta tieteellistä näyttöä aiheesta ei juurikaan ole olemassa. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli tutkia aiemman kilpaurheilu-uran ja alkoholisairauksien välistä yhteyttä sekä alkoholinkäyttöä eri urheilulajiryhmissä ja verrokeilla. Lisäksi haluttiin selvittää eri taustamuuttujien, kuten kilpa- ja kuntourheiluaktiv…