Sports Medicine
Warm-up routines shown to boost muscle speed and power
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A systematic review led by Edith Cowan University has found that increasing muscle temperature through warm-up routines can significantly enhance performance in rapid, high‑power movements. The study estimates that for every 1°C rise in muscle temperature, speed- and power-related performance improves by around 3.5%, while maximum strength remains largely unchanged.
A new imaging study of professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters finds that repeated head trauma appears to push the brain’s glymphatic “cleanup” system into overdrive at first, before its function declines with increasing knockouts. The MRI-detected changes, to be presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting, could offer early warning signs of future neurodegenerative risk.
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Recreational runners who sleep too little or report poor-quality sleep were nearly twice as likely to report injuries as those who sleep well, according to a study of 425 runners led by Professor Jan de Jonge and published in Applied Sciences.