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9 results for "athletic injury"

X_2_14 Credible Medicine & Healing

X_2_14 — Sports Medicine: Performance, Injury, and Recovery

Sports medicine is the multidisciplinary field concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and conditions related to physical activity and athletic performance — encompassing exerc

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X_5_04 Credible Medicine & Healing

X_5_04 — Rehabilitation Medicine: Restoring Function After Injury and Illness

Rehabilitation medicine (also called physical medicine and rehabilitation — PM&R, or physiatry) is the medical specialty dedicated to restoring function, reducing disability, and improving quality of life for individuals

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Z_3_10 Credible Molecular Biology

Z_3_10 — Genetics of Athletic Performance

Athletic performance is a highly polygenic trait with substantial heritability — twin studies estimate heritability of VO2max (maximal oxygen uptake) at ~50% (Bouchard et al., 1999, HERITAGE Family Study), muscle fiber c

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T_5_15 Verified Psychology & Social

T_5_15 — Sport Psychology: Flow States, Peak Performance, and Mental Training

Sport psychology — the scientific study of psychological factors influencing athletic performance, exercise behavior, and physical activity — spans applied mental skills training (visualization, self-talk, goal setting,

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ZC_3_05 Verified Social Science

ZC_3_05 — Sociology of Sport

Sociology of sport examines how sport reflects, reinforces, and occasionally challenges broader social structures of class, race, gender, and national identity. Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning (Quest for Excitement, 1986)

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T_2_08 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_08 — Neuropsychology and Brain Damage

Neuropsychology studies the relationship between brain structure/function and behavior — using patterns of cognitive impairment following brain damage to infer how the intact brain organizes mental processes.

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T_2_12 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_12 — Psychology of Trauma and PTSD

Psychological trauma — exposure to events involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence — can produce lasting alterations in cognition, emotion, arousal, and behavior. Post-Traumatic Stress Dis

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T_5_01 Verified Psychology & Social

T_5_01 — Sports Psychology and Performance

Sports psychology investigates the psychological factors that influence athletic performance, exercise behavior, and physical activity — applying principles from cognitive, social, and clinical psychology to optimize hum

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Y_4_02 Verified Altered States

Y_4_02 — Savant Syndrome and Acquired Genius

Savant syndrome — extraordinary ability coexisting with significant cognitive disability — affects roughly 1 in 10 people with autism and ~1 in 2,000 people with other developmental disabilities or brain injuries. What m

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