Basketball
Athletic Injuries
Injuries incurred during participation in competitive or non-competitive sports.
Sports
Activities or games, usually involving physical effort or skill. Reasons for engagement in sports include pleasure, competition, and/or financial reward.
Athletes
Individuals who have developed skills, physical stamina and strength or participants in SPORTS or other physical activities.
Soccer
Ergometry
Any method of measuring the amount of work done by an organism, usually during PHYSICAL EXERTION. Ergometry also includes measures of power. Some instruments used in these determinations include the hand crank and the bicycle ergometer.
Sprains and Strains
A collective term for muscle and ligament injuries without dislocation or fracture. A sprain is a joint injury in which some of the fibers of a supporting ligament are ruptured but the continuity of the ligament remains intact. A strain is an overstretching or overexertion of some part of the musculature.
Competitive Behavior
Athletic Performance
Football
Braces
Ipomoea batatas
Sports Equipment
Equipment required for engaging in a sport (such as balls, bats, rackets, skis, skates, ropes, weights) and devices for the protection of athletes during their performance (such as masks, gloves, mouth pieces).
Sports Medicine
The field of medicine concerned with physical fitness and the diagnosis and treatment of injuries sustained in exercise and sports activities.
Volleyball
Hockey
Gymnastics
Systematic physical exercise. This includes calisthenics, a system of light gymnastics for promoting strength and grace of carriage.