{"title":"[Conconi tests in children].","authors":"H U Backes, V Keller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From 1990 to 1992 we carried out 158 Conconi-Tests on children aged from 7 to 15. Of these tests 128 were carried out on the 400 m-track, and further 30 were Conconi-Intervall-Tests (Probst-Test). The testing was done on the members of the Swiss Figure-Skating Team, on the best runners of the Volksbank Grand Prix St. Gallen 1991/92 and on the youngest girls and boys of the Athletic Club Brühl St. Gallen. 89 tests were performed on girls and 69 tests on boys. In 84% of all cases (133 tests) the results were open to unambiguous interpretation, and were determined by the anaerobic threshold, 14% (22 tests), however, could not be clearly interpreted or had to be done again, and in 2% of all cases (3 tests) the results delivered no analysable information. In the results we only considered the 133 tests where clear interpretation was possible (114 from 128 Conconi-Tests, i.e. 89%, and 19 from 30 Probst-Tests, i.e. 63%). Thus we achieved the first aim of our research, which was to investigate the feasibility of carrying out Conconi-Tests on children and analysing the subsequent results thereof (with very interesting threshold results). From this, it is hoped, that norm data can be established, on which the anaerobic threshold and the threshold pulse of children active in sports can be based. At this point it must be stated that the classical Conconi-Test was found to deliver data easily and clearly interpretable, while the Intervall-Test was less easily analyzable.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 3","pages":"17-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18917643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Sport for seniors--target groups, development and challenge].","authors":"L Kennel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 1","pages":"39-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19176859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Theintz, F Ladame, H Howald, U Weiss, T Torresani, P C Sizonenko
{"title":"[The child, growth and high-level sports].","authors":"G Theintz, F Ladame, H Howald, U Weiss, T Torresani, P C Sizonenko","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hormonal response to a short but intense session of physical exercise should be distinguished from the endocrine adaptation to systematic physical conditioning. The normal child is perfectly equipped to handle stress situations such as those generated by leisure sport: the transient increase in stress hormones has no deleterious effect on growth and puberty. For highly trained children and adolescents, standardized dynamic testing will provide little information on the state of their endocrine system. In addition, the effects of training should be differentiated from those of various bias of selection. In young elite athletes, as for adult athletes, the alterations of the endocrine system result from an inappropriate physical conditioning programme for the individual level of tolerance. Whereas it has been shown that the gonadal function is predominantly affected (pubertal delay, menstrual dysfunction), alterations of growth hormone and cortisol productions have also been reported. Anomalies of pubertal growth should be searched for among elite adolescent athletes: there are data suggesting that their growth potential should probably not be affected below 15 weekly hours of training. However, children do not respond to stress in a uniform manner and one should be prepared to detect the occasional athlete with inadequate growth at lower training intensities. This seems to be the case when training starts before puberty as well as in physical activities associated with a strict weight control. When growth and/or puberal progression become inappropriate, the only logical therapy consists in reducing markedly or stopping training temporarily: in this situation, there is no medical justification whatsoever to initiate a substitutive therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 3","pages":"7-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18917648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A rare injury of the ankle in competition skiiers].","authors":"D Fritschy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ankle ligamentous injuries have become rare since high and rigid boots are used in alpine skiing because tibio-talar and foot movements are almost impossible. However, in extreme competition conditions, external rotation of the ankle is possible in the ski boot. These are slalom accidents where the leg is forced suddenly in external rotation when straddling a gate. This movement leads to a collision between talus and distal fibula opening the tibio-fibular joint. The anterior tibio-fibular ligament is first torn. We report a series of 13 cases collected in a 17 years experience in the FIS-World Cup.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 1","pages":"13-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19176849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Pathology of injuries due to snow surfing].","authors":"M H Binet, J D Laporte, D Constans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The amount of injured snowboarders is increasing each year. The reason is due to the success of snowboarding for teenagers. Accidents occur more during the first hours of practice. Upper limb is the first location: fore-arm breaks and wrist fractures are very common. Elbow and shoulder dislocations also occur often for snowboarders. The location of most injuries for lower leg is the ankle; we found many ankle sprains and astragalus's breaks. The knee sprain is rare unlike alpine ski. Prevention has to be developed to give a better image of this sport, in fact the attitude of the participants is the main reason for the accidents.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 1","pages":"21-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19176854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Fink, A Genelin, K P Benedetto, C Hoser, G Sperner
{"title":"[The treatment of fresh anterior cruciate ligament ruptures in relation to age and level of sports activity].","authors":"C Fink, A Genelin, K P Benedetto, C Hoser, G Sperner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Due to its exposure as well as a lack of securing muscles the knee is the human joint with the higher incidence of traumatic injury. The aim of this retrospective study was to illustrate our five-year results following conventional and surgical therapy and to relate these results to the extent of sports activity enjoyed by the accident victim. Assessment was made according to subjective, objective and functional criteria. The surgical group consisted of 52 patients and the conventionally treated group 31 patients. Subjective assessment of the surgical group showed 65.5% of the patients to have very good or good results, as opposed to 32% for the conventionally treated group. When related to average overall sports activities and when using the Innsbruck Scors a significant change was seen in both groups. Surgical patients who participated in competitive or leisure sports showed better results.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 1","pages":"26-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19176855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Post-traumatic knee joint arthroscopy in children and adolescents].","authors":"M T Lauterburg, P Segantini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a retrospective study we analyzed the arthroscopic findings of 166 knee-arthroscopies performed in children and young people up to the age of 16 years. A sports related trauma was present in 54%, a traffic injury in 15% and in 11% an other casualty. In 4% the precise injury was not sure and 16% did not refer any injury. Among the sports injuries (n = 90) ski injuries were the most frequent with 30% of all, followed by gymnastic injuries in 28%, soccer in 25% and other indoor sport injuries in 12%. 57% of all arthroscopies presented a hemarthrosis. The main finding of all arthroscopies was an cartilage lesion. The anterior cruciate ligament was torn in 30% and a dislocated patella was established in 22% of the arthroscopy while a meniscus injury was found in 17%. The injury of the collateral ligaments or of the retinaculum was found in 22%. In all cases of hemarthrosis origin of bleeding was found and only in 6% (n = 10) of all arthroscopy no pathological finding was established.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 3","pages":"25-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18917644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Maximal and high-velocity power. A study in Swiss male and female national ski athletes].","authors":"H Spring, K Jordan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An important quality aspect of a good alpine skier is his ability to produce torque at high angular velocities. Both the isokinetic dynamometer (Cybex 6000, open chain of movement) and a device to measure flight time in skill jumps (Ergo Jump, closed chain of movement) allow to identify subjects with outstanding capacities in explosive force production and possibly to measure changes after specific training protocols aiming at improving this important characteristics of alpine skiers.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 2","pages":"27-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19043461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Basis of muscle contraction].","authors":"R Billeter, H Hoppeler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This interdisciplinary review aims at updating the knowledge on structural and functional properties of skeletal muscle tissue to the current state of art in various disciplines of basic research on muscle tissue. The mechanism of contraction as well as the excitation-contraction coupling are discussed along with recent findings on the molecular organization of muscle filaments and further constituents of the cytoskeleton. The structural conditions for oxygen and substrate metabolism prevailing in the working muscle cell are outlined and discussed with respect to the fiber type composition and recruitment of muscles during athletic activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 2","pages":"6-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19043464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Energy and nutritional intake in young weight lifters before and after nutritional counseling].","authors":"S Bauer, E Jakob, A Berg, J Keul","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A well-balanced diet is an essential component for the development and maintenance of physical performance. Several studies on the dietary status of power athletes have shown, that there are still problems to realize the nutritional recommendations. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the energy- and nutrient intake of 11 young weight lifters aged 14 to 17 years before and after an intensive nutritional counselling (NC). Dietary status was evaluated by 7-day-protocols filled out by the young athletes 4 weeks before and 4 weeks after the NC. Before the NC the athletes (x: age 15, height 174 cm, weight 69.5 kg, BMI 22.2 kg/m2) had a mean energy intake of 179.7 kJ/kg body weight (11.2 MJ/day). The energy percentage of carbohydrate:fat:protein was 48:37:15. The protein consumption was 1.6 g/kg of body weight and the fluid intake was 1.7 l/day. The athletes did not meet the recommendation for niacin, folic acid, vitamin E, magnesium, calcium, iodine and zinc. After the NC the athletes had a significant higher energy percentage of carbohydrate and lower energy percentage of fat. In addition a significantly higher intake of fluid, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals was observed. This study revealed that the young weight lifters without NC fall short of nutritional recommendations. With the intensive nutritional counselling an improvement of the nutrient intake could be reached. Additional nutritional counselling for the athletes and an intensive teamwork with the coach and parents of the athletes seem necessary to develop and stabilize a good nutritional behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":79422,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Traumatologie = Revue suisse pour medecine et traumatologie","volume":" 3","pages":"35-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18917645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}