Sports-related eye injuries affect more than 40,000 people in the USA each year and can lead to considerable loss of vision, says Shahzad Mian, M.D New imaging technology has now improved a doctor's ability to treat and diagnose 2 serious sports injuries affecting football players, according to 2 research studies tabled at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Your sport could be your ticket to help pay for college. Every high school athlete knows that in a matter of seconds the dream could end. Nothing kills a college athletic career faster than an injury. Physical conditioning is probably one of the most important things an athlete should do prior to the start of the season in order to decrease the chances of an injury, particularly the soreness that occurs during the first few days of practices.

Unfortunately most athletes don’t even realize when they’ve suffered from a concussion. There can be serious results if the brain isn’t given the chance to heal properly following a concussion and it receives another injury.

Dehydration can limit the body's ability to regulate body temperature by sweating and/or skin blood flow and may contribute to heat exhaustion, heat injury, and exertional heat stroke.

The last thing you need as a college athlete is a bout of the flu during the playing season. You may be able to avoid the flu or complications with these simple steps.

Sports medicine experts at the University of California San Francisco warn these winter sports can lead to serious injuries. However, by taking some precautions, skiing injuries can be prevented.

Controversy continues to swirl around the facts and assumptions about creatine. What is creatine? What part does it play in conditioning and strength training? Are some, any or all of the claims made on its behalf true, partly true, or altogether false?

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), together with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and Dietitians of Canada, has recently released a joint position statement, Nutrition and Athletic Performance.

College dining halls provide a lot of food choices in a new eating environment. Healthy eating does not have to be hard. You just need to keep these general nutrition principles in mind.

The college takes the position that the athletic performance, physical activity and recovery from exercise are enhanced by optimal nutrition, the paper recommends appropriate selection of fluids and food, timing of intake and careful supplement choices.

"It's a mistake to think that exercise (output) without the right kind of energy intake will burn calories and reduce body weight appropriately," said Benardot. "The important thing is to be in balance, so that resting metabolism stays high enough."

There are a lot of misconceptions about hazing include the perception that hazing is little more than harmless pranks  isolated to college fraternities.

Commenting on the decision to reinstatement Calhoun's athletic program, Johnson said, " Calhoun Community College is one of the state's leading comprehensive junior colleges, and this addition of athletics at the school will make it 'comprehensive' in the truest sense of the word.

Depression was significantly lower, reductions in anger were evident, confusion was significantly lower, and even fatigue, while markedly elevated immediately after the weight lifting exercise, was reduced at the two- and three-hour marks.

Left undiagnosed, high ankle sprain can impede an athlete's performance and eventually lead to arthritis.

You are having a great season on the sporting field when suddenly you have to deal with a sprained ankle or a torn ligament in your knee. It's not a season ending injury, but you will miss several weeks you weren't planning on missing. How do you respond and what do you do?

Overtraining syndrome most often occurs in athletes who are training for competition or a specific event and train beyond the body's ability to recover.

Most athletes know what shin splints are. You are well into your training regime training for your sport, running a couple of miles to build your endurance and stamina and the pain starts. Intensely sharp pains that shoot up your leg every time your foot hits the ground – commonly known to every athlete as shin splints.

Could your early return possibly hurt the team performance rather than help because you are not completely 100%? Open communication between you, your coach, your trainer or doctor, and your parents will make the rehabilitation process a lot less stressful. Yes, there is the question of being tough and dealing with pain, but is the pain worth the pain later on in your career and in your life?

Recent studies suggest that steroid abuse among teenagers is on the rise. The study indicates that students at the 8th grade level (and even younger) are beginning to experiment with steroids with little understanding of their potential deadly side effects.

Windsurfing has also been called sailboarding or boardsailing and is a water based sport that utilizes a board-and-sail device and combines elements of sailing and surfing.

Don't just stop training when your season is over. The game pressure is over until next year! It's good to take a break from your sport, but there is a danger in letting your break last a little too long. In the off-season, it's important for you to maintain an effective training plan designed to keep you in shape.

Treating the pain of knee osteoarthritis is with anti-inflammatory drugs, the medications have little effect on disability or the disease process. Health-care practitioners often promote exercise as an alternative method of reducing pain and functional disability with arthritis.

Study after study has shown that physical activity mitigates the loss of muscle strength and endurance, indicating that if older adults focus energy on muscular, skeletal, balance and mobility training, they will maintain a functionally superior quality of life well into old age.

So what better place to turn TO than the Internet where fitness regimes and exercise programs and tips are dished out by heaping spoonfuls. But is your computer the ideal place to look for a personal trainer?

Our skin is the most visible organ of our bodies, so skin disorders can have a large emotional impact. A healthful lifestyle can help keep skin healthy, reduce the severity of many dermatological disorders and slow skin aging.

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