September 5th, 2010 
The FLHC In a study aimed at understanding the effect of prolonged exercise on the heart, researchers in Sweden studied a group of competitors taking part in the Adventure Racing World Championship. The results show no evidence of cardiac fatigue despite the fact that this is a continuous endurance event lasting between five and seven days.
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No Comments » August 30th, 2010 The FLHC Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids’ sports has increased along with awareness of head injuries.
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July 30th, 2010 The FLHC When professional athletes in sports like football and rugby are injured, they commonly get injections of pain-numbing anesthetics to help them stay in the game. Now a new study suggests that, while safety concerns remain, most athletes may not su…
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Posted in News Tags: anesthetics, athletes, football, from, game, harm, health news, Little, painkiller, professional athletes, rugby, safety concerns, seen, shots, study suggests that No Comments » June 23rd, 2010 The FLHC Athletes have been enjoying the benefits of creatine supplements to gain stronger muscles since the 1990s, and the supplement has also proven beneficial among other groups. Could it help cardiac patients regain strength to help with their heart-training workouts as part of rehabilitation? The evidence at this stage suggests not — exercise alone proved a far more powerful tonic for patients in a study out today.
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Posted in Physical Health Tags: athletes, cardiac, cardiac patients, creatine, creatine supplements, Exercise, fitness news, muscles, rehabilitation, supplement, tonic, trumps, Workouts No Comments » May 4th, 2010 The FLHC A newe study finds that human growth hormone (HGH) improves sprint capacity in healthy recreational athletes. This is the first trial to demonstrate that HGH improves athletic performance.
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Posted in Physical Health Tags: athletes, athletic performance, capacity, fitness news, growth, growth hormone hgh, healthy, HGH, hormone, human, human growth hormone, human growth hormone hgh, increases, newe, performance view, recreational, recreational athletes, significantly, sprint, study No Comments » February 22nd, 2010 The FLHC Female athletes experience dramatically higher rates of specific musculoskeletal injuries and medical conditions compared to male athletes. That’s because many training programs developed for female athletes are built on research using young adult males and don’t take the intrinsic biological differences between the sexes into account.
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