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Furthering Our Understanding of Injuries In Elite Tennis Players
It is with great pleasure that I can share our paper, “Common and Less Well-Known Upper Limb Injuries in Elite Tennis Players” led by myself and co-authored by my esteemed colleagues Dr. Timothy Wood, Dr. John Kelly IV and Dr. Brian Cable in the October 2020 issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Current […]
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Sports Psychology – Are You Overtraining, Depressed or Burned Out?
Mental Health and the Athlete Mental health has become a major talking point during the COVID pandemic with feelings of despair, lethargy, hopelessness, low drive which is compounded by the prevalence of mental health disorders already present in the community with one in five people suffering from a depressive or anxiety disorder. Athletes are not […]
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Why Protein is Important to Enhance Athletic Performance
Why is protein important for athletic performance? In sports where power and strength are important, athletes/individuals need lean muscle mass which occurs through a process called muscle protein synthesis. In short muscle protein synthesis is the remodelling process of skeletal muscle in response to resistance training leading to muscle growth (hypertrophy). Protein is therefore an […]
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