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Special Issue "Feature Papers in Sports Science and Medicine"

A special issue of Sci (ISSN 2413-4155). This special issue belongs to the section "Sports Science and Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2023 | Viewed by 2053

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Pantelis T. Nikolaidis

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Laboratory of Exercise Testing, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Athens, Greece
Interests: endurance sports; exercise physiology; exercise testing; pacing; recreational athletes; team sports
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In this Special Issue, we welcome all submissions regarding science and medicine in sports. Both Sports Medicine and Sports Science cover a broad range of different topics. To avoid setting any limits on potential topics, we have provided a list of potential areas of interest below.

For Sports Science, the primary areas of interest are:

  • Aging and exercise;
  • Anthropometry;
  • Biomechanics;
  • Children and exercise;
  • Coaching;
  • Exercise physiology;
  • Functional anatomy;
  • Kinesiology;
  • Performance analysis;
  • Physical education;
  • Sport psychology;
  • Sport sociology;
  • Sport nutrition;
  • Strength and conditioning;
  • Testing and training;
  • Women and exercise.

For Sports Medicine, all medical topics are of interest. These include, for example:

  • Cardiology;
  • Pneumology;
  • Psychology;
  • Orthopedics;
  • Rheumatology;
  • Surgery;
  • Endocrinology;
  • Pediatrics;
  • Neurology;
  • Nephrology;
  • Urology.

Dr. Pantelis T. Nikolaidis
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sci is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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Exercise Testing and Motivation
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Pantelis T. Nikolaidis
Sci 2023, 5(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/sci5010012 - 07 Mar 2023
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Exercise testing has important applications for sport, exercise and clinical settings, providing valuable information for exercise prescription and diagnostics for health purposes. Often, exercise testing includes the participant’s maximal effort, and the testing score partially depends on whether the maximal effort has been [...] Read more.
Exercise testing has important applications for sport, exercise and clinical settings, providing valuable information for exercise prescription and diagnostics for health purposes. Often, exercise testing includes the participant’s maximal effort, and the testing score partially depends on whether the maximal effort has been exerted. In this context, motivation in exercise testing, including verbal encouragement and video presentation, plays a vital role in assessing participants. Professionals involved in exercise testing, such as exercise physiologists and sport scientists, should be aware of motivation’s role in performance during laboratory or field testing, especially using verbal encouragement. Motivation during exercise testing should be standardized and fully described in testing protocols. In this way, exercise testing would provide valid and reliable results for exercise prescription or other purposes (e.g., sport talent identification, athletes’ selection, education, research and rehabilitation). Full article
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Incidence and Predictors of Soft Tissue Injuries during Basic Combat Training
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Pantelis T. Nikolaidis
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Konstantinos Havenetidis
Sci 2023, 5(2), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/sci5020020 - 06 May 2023
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Strenuous exercise, such as military training, is known to demand a high degree of physical performance and to cause injuries. The present study aimed to (a) monitor the incidence of soft tissue injuries (blisters, contusions, and lacerations) among cadets during Basic Combat Training [...] Read more.
Strenuous exercise, such as military training, is known to demand a high degree of physical performance and to cause injuries. The present study aimed to (a) monitor the incidence of soft tissue injuries (blisters, contusions, and lacerations) among cadets during Basic Combat Training (BCT), and (b) identify possible risk factors for these injuries. Participants were 315 first-grade cadets (women, n = 28; men, n = 287), recruited from the Hellenic Army Academy. Seven weeks of BCT resulted in an overall cadet injury rate of 24.1% (n = 76) with 13.7% being injured one time, whereas 10.4% of participants were injured 2–6 times. The incidence of injuries was 2.9 soft tissue injuries per 1000 training hours. The logistic regression model using sex, being an athlete, nationality, weight, height, body mass index, and percentage of body fat (BF) to predict soft tissue injury was not statistically significant (χ2(7) = 5.315, p = 0.622). The results of this study showed that BCT caused a large number of soft tissue injuries similar to the number reported for musculoskeletal injuries. In conclusion, following BCT, soft tissue injury characteristics (occurrence, severity, treatment) are similar to those applied in musculoskeletal injuries for Army cadets. However, risk factors such as sex, nationality, and BF have not been related to soft tissue injury prediction as previously shown for musculoskeletal injuries for the same sample group. Full article
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