https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports Sport through the lens of injury, recovery, and performance science. en-us https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/t-wave-inversion-high-school-athlete-screening https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/t-wave-inversion-high-school-athlete-screening Across 16,893 high school athletes screened over 15 years, 0.36% had T-wave inversions. Four were later found to have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in the young. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/single-dose-caffeine-repeated-sprint-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/single-dose-caffeine-repeated-sprint-trial A small double-blind trial found a single 5.5 mg/kg dose lifted sprint power for hours, alongside higher noradrenaline and lower perceived effort — but it was 12 people, mostly men. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/acl-graft-type-revision-football-cohort https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/acl-graft-type-revision-football-cohort A Swedish study of 10,693 ACL reconstructions in registered football players found no link between graft type and revision surgery. Age and playing level mattered far more. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/machine-learning-injury-prediction-limits https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/machine-learning-injury-prediction-limits A hamstring analysis separated pre-injury from return-to-sport sprint mechanics at AUCs near 0.79. A multi-team rugby model tried to predict injuries before they happened, and could not. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/rugby-tackle-biomechanics-head-impacts https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/rugby-tackle-biomechanics-head-impacts A 32-study review attaches a five- to eight-fold per-tackle concussion risk to one body position, and finds youth players use it more often. A New Zealand school study maps where the force lands. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/energy-availability-methods-standardised-audit https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/energy-availability-methods-standardised-audit The same audit found high-performance female athletes well represented in the field — and that the studies generating prevalence figures lean on self-reported food records and MET lookup tables. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/nfl-cte-prevalence-at-death-bmj-cohort https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/nfl-cte-prevalence-at-death-bmj-cohort The range is the finding, not a failure of the study. 1,712 former players died between 2008 and 2021; 338 brains were examined, and who donates a brain is not random. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/wada-russia-2028-la-olympics-testing https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/wada-russia-2028-la-olympics-testing No accredited anti-doping lab exists in Russia, and won't before Los Angeles 2028. Every sample from a Russian Olympic hopeful will be flown out and analyzed abroad instead. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/twins-pablo-lopez-kendry-rojas-injury-update https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/twins-pablo-lopez-kendry-rojas-injury-update That's how thin Minnesota's pitching depth has gotten during a playoff push — a light-toss session six months into Tommy John recovery counts as encouraging, and a teammate's oblique strain still stings. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/titan-recovery-athlete-ambassadors-eli-perry-myles-fiatsi https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/titan-recovery-athlete-ambassadors-eli-perry-myles-fiatsi Eli Perry, a natural pro bodybuilder, and Myles Fiatsi, a bodybuilder and content creator, have sponsored Titan Recovery since 2024. Both partnerships check out independently. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/tennis-workload-what-the-injury-data-shows https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/tennis-workload-what-the-injury-data-shows A players' association says arm injuries more than doubled this year. A 46-year analysis of tour matches finds a slower, steadier rise. Both can be true, and neither settles the calendar question. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/sports-injury-er-visits-2024-neiss-surge https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/sports-injury-er-visits-2024-neiss-surge Exercise equipment injured more people than any other single category. The count has now risen every year since a pandemic-era low in 2020, but 2024's 17% jump broke from a run of smaller annual increases. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/nfl-2025-injury-data-and-the-turf-question https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/nfl-2025-injury-data-and-the-turf-question ACL tears fell 25% and matched a seven-season low. On the turf-versus-grass argument, two independent studies reached the same statistical conclusion as the league — and for reasons worth understanding. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/lebron-james-76ers-signing-longevity-at-41 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/lebron-james-76ers-signing-longevity-at-41 He said he thought he was done. What actually lets a 41-year-old compete at the NBA level isn't a secret supplement — it's sleep, hydrotherapy, and training loads built around recovery, not just output. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/lamelo-ball-timberwolves-trade-injury-history https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/lamelo-ball-timberwolves-trade-injury-history Ball played 72 games last season, his second-most ever — a real improvement after two years in which ankle injuries limited him to 58 games combined. Minnesota's own front office isn't fully sold it will last. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/lakers-offseason-kevon-looney-durability-question https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/lakers-offseason-kevon-looney-durability-question Kevon Looney went from a Warriors ironman to 21 games with New Orleans in a single year. Los Angeles is betting that was an aberration, not a decline. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/ioc-sry-screening-what-a-gene-test-can-establish https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/ioc-sry-screening-what-a-gene-test-can-establish From LA28, every entrant in an Olympic female-category event is screened for one Y-chromosome gene. Geneticists, including the man who found it, say the test answers a narrower question than the policy asks. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/interference-effect-hybrid-training https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/interference-effect-hybrid-training An umbrella review of 17 meta-analyses found that adding endurance work did not blunt strength, power or hypertrophy compared with lifting alone. Almost none of that data came from highly trained athletes. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/hyrox-scale-and-first-injury-data https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/hyrox-scale-and-first-injury-data The fitness race just closed its biggest season and crowned new world champions in Stockholm. A preprint from a Munich trauma unit gives the sport its first injury numbers, and they are not small. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/hypertrophy-evidence-that-moved https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/hypertrophy-evidence-that-moved A 67-study meta-regression found muscle growth keeps rising with weekly sets, with diminishing returns. A 15-site trial of 297 lifters found stretch-position partial reps produced effects close to zero versus full range. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/heat-rules-2026-what-the-cooling-evidence-says https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/heat-rules-2026-what-the-cooling-evidence-says FIFA gave every World Cup match a mandatory three-minute break and the ATP set its first WBGT thresholds. Physiologists who study cooling say three minutes in direct sun does little to core temperature. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/golf-longevity-evidence-versus-elite-injury-load https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/golf-longevity-evidence-versus-elite-injury-load The same sport that a 300,000-person Swedish cohort associated with a 40% lower death rate carries an injury incidence in professionals roughly six times that of amateurs. The difference is dose. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/glp1-lean-mass-question https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/glp1-lean-mass-question Pooled randomised data show incretin drugs shed lean mass in about the same proportion as lifestyle weight loss. The evidence gap is people who train seriously, and it has not been filled. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/cte-2026-what-the-new-evidence-established https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/cte-2026-what-the-new-evidence-established A 614-donor autopsy study tied advanced CTE to dementia independently of other brain disease. A separate imaging report in three former athletes hints at a test for the living. The caveats on both are heavy. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/creatine-2026-evidence-shift https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/creatine-2026-evidence-shift A meta-analysis of 26 trials found creatine raises serum creatinine without markers of kidney injury. Weeks earlier, a Nature Communications paper reported that supplementation promoted metastasis in mice. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/college-athletes-betting-harassment-survey-data https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/college-athletes-betting-harassment-survey-data Two NCAA surveys nine weeks apart put the share of Division I men's basketball players receiving abuse tied to betting at 36% and 46%. The gap between them is the most informative part. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/bodybuilding-cardiac-mortality-data https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/bodybuilding-cardiac-mortality-data The 2026 Arnold Classic paid a record $750,000. Two European Heart Journal cohorts covering 29,733 IFBB competitors put sudden cardiac death rates far above what athlete screening programmes usually report. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/adhd-concussion-risk-recovery-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/adhd-concussion-risk-recovery-review The paper is a literature review, not a new trial — it synthesizes existing research rather than testing anything new. The authors argue return-to-play protocols may need to treat ADHD as a distinct variable. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/vo2-max-what-the-cohorts-establish https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/vo2-max-what-the-cohorts-establish A sibling-controlled cohort of 1.1 million men, a genetic analysis of 712 traits and a UK Biobank study of fitness change converge — and they agree on where the exception is. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/compression-garments-evidence https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/compression-garments-evidence A meta-analysis of 51 studies found no effect on race time or time to exhaustion. The 2026 review of post-exercise compression for soreness rated its own evidence very low certainty. Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/detraining-how-fast-fitness-declines https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/detraining-how-fast-fitness-declines A 2026 meta-analysis of 86 randomised trials found body mass, waist circumference and maximal oxygen uptake still better than baseline more than six months after training stopped. Not everything held. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/protein-timing-anabolic-window-evidence https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/protein-timing-anabolic-window-evidence A meta-regression of 23 hypertrophy studies found total intake the strongest predictor and no timing effect after adjustment. A later network meta-analysis of 116 trials still favours post-exercise, narrowly. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/fat-burning-zone-evidence https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/fat-burning-zone-evidence A 2026 meta-analysis of 19 trials found training at maximal fat-oxidation intensity cut body weight by 3.66 kg. Head-to-head trials against interval training find no consistent winner on body fat. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/muscle-soreness-causes-and-treatments https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/muscle-soreness-causes-and-treatments An umbrella review of 29 systematic reviews and 863 randomised trials found most treatments resting on critically low-quality evidence. Animal work suggests soreness can arise without muscle damage at all. Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/stretching-injury-prevention-evidence https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/stretching-injury-prevention-evidence In a meta-analysis of 25 randomised trials and 26,610 participants, stretching produced no reduction in sports injuries. Strength training cut them to under a third — on a much smaller evidence base. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/carbohydrate-availability-low-energy-availability-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/carbohydrate-availability-low-energy-availability-trial A tightly controlled crossover trial separated low energy availability from low carbohydrate availability for four days. One hormone moved clearly; most did not, and performance did not move at all. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/early-sport-specialization-chronic-injury-odds https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/early-sport-specialization-chronic-injury-odds A survey of 322 college students found a dose-response pattern: the more intensely someone specialized in a single sport young, the greater their odds of chronic injury, nearly fivefold. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/menstrual-cycle-elite-athlete-performance-meta-analysis https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/menstrual-cycle-elite-athlete-performance-meta-analysis Pooling five studies that confirmed cycle phase by hormone testing, researchers found no significant VO2 max difference between phases, though the base is too thin to rule an effect out. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/ramadan-fasting-karate-performance https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/ramadan-fasting-karate-performance A twelve-athlete study tested morning, late-afternoon and late-evening sessions across the fasting month — and found the deficit was specific to time of day, not spread evenly across it. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/resistance-training-mortality-dose-response https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/resistance-training-mortality-dose-response Three cohorts, 147,374 people, 30 years and 35,798 deaths. The dose-response curve flattened above 120 minutes per week, and the cancer signal appeared at the low end, not the high end. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/young-athletes-protein-supplement-medication-gap https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/young-athletes-protein-supplement-medication-gap A review of 18 studies covering more than 13,000 young athletes found up to three-quarters combine protein supplements with drugs like ibuprofen. Fewer than 1 in 10 tell a clinician. Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/prep-to-play-womens-australian-football-implementation https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/prep-to-play-womens-australian-football-implementation A stepped-wedge trial across 165 women's and girls' Australian football teams shows how far implementation support moves uptake — and how much larger a trial would need to be to prove it prevents injuries. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/nba-load-management-injury-data https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/nba-load-management-injury-data Games missed to rest or load management rose 125% over nine NBA seasons while serious injuries rose 43% — and players who sat out for rest showed no significant reduction in subsequent injury risk. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/training-intensity-distribution-zone-2 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/training-intensity-distribution-zone-2 A network meta-analysis compared the ways athletes split training across intensity zones. Every credible interval crossed zero — and the model ranked first for aerobic capacity was not the popular one. Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/comrades-marathon-ultra-endurance-health-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/comrades-marathon-ultra-endurance-health-review A review of 42 studies on South Africa's Comrades Marathon finds medical encounters at up to 20 per 1,000 starters — mostly dehydration and cramping, not the cardiac events that draw the most attention. Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/athlete-chronic-low-water-intake-long-term-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/athlete-chronic-low-water-intake-long-term-health Researchers estimate about 58% of athletes are habitual low drinkers by a standard fluid-intake benchmark — and argue the field has barely studied what that means for long-term kidney and metabolic health. Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/european-football-injury-costs-five-leagues https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/european-football-injury-costs-five-leagues An analysis across the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 found economic losses from player injuries topped 730 million euros in a season, with hamstrings hit hardest. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/marathon-sudden-cardiac-arrest-paris-registry https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/marathon-sudden-cardiac-arrest-paris-registry Among 1.2 million participants in Paris endurance races over ten years, 17 suffered sudden cardiac arrest. Nearly all of them lived, and researchers still can't explain almost half the cases. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/dxa-fat-z-score-menstrual-status-athletes https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/dxa-fat-z-score-menstrual-status-athletes In 388 female athletes, a per cent fat Z-score below −1.0 more than doubled sensitivity for amenorrhoea against standard BMI thresholds. It gave up specificity to do it. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/march-madness-2026-injury-toll https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/march-madness-2026-injury-toll Four players averaging 18-plus points a game are out for the 2026 NCAA tournament's opening round — as many as the previous 20 tournaments combined, by one count. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports