Sports-related eye injuries affect more than 40,000 people in the USA each year and can lead to considerable loss of vision, says Shahzad Mian, M.D New imaging technology has now improved a doctor's ability to treat and diagnose 2 serious sports injuries affecting football players, according to 2 research studies tabled at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Your sport could be your ticket to help pay for college. Every high school athlete knows that in a matter of seconds the dream could end. Nothing kills a college athletic career faster than an injury. Physical conditioning is probably one of the most important things an athlete should do prior to the start of the season in order to decrease the chances of an injury, particularly the soreness that occurs during the first few days of practices.

Unfortunately most athletes don’t even realize when they’ve suffered from a concussion. There can be serious results if the brain isn’t given the chance to heal properly following a concussion and it receives another injury.

College dining halls provide a lot of food choices in a new eating environment. Healthy eating does not have to be hard. You just need to keep these general nutrition principles in mind.

There are a lot of misconceptions about hazing include the perception that hazing is little more than harmless pranks  isolated to college fraternities.

Commenting on the decision to reinstatement Calhoun's athletic program, Johnson said, " Calhoun Community College is one of the state's leading comprehensive junior colleges, and this addition of athletics at the school will make it 'comprehensive' in the truest sense of the word.

Left undiagnosed, high ankle sprain can impede an athlete's performance and eventually lead to arthritis.

You are having a great season on the sporting field when suddenly you have to deal with a sprained ankle or a torn ligament in your knee. It's not a season ending injury, but you will miss several weeks you weren't planning on missing. How do you respond and what do you do?

Overtraining syndrome most often occurs in athletes who are training for competition or a specific event and train beyond the body's ability to recover.

Most athletes know what shin splints are. You are well into your training regime training for your sport, running a couple of miles to build your endurance and stamina and the pain starts. Intensely sharp pains that shoot up your leg every time your foot hits the ground – commonly known to every athlete as shin splints.

Recent studies suggest that steroid abuse among teenagers is on the rise. The study indicates that students at the 8th grade level (and even younger) are beginning to experiment with steroids with little understanding of their potential deadly side effects.

Windsurfing has also been called sailboarding or boardsailing and is a water based sport that utilizes a board-and-sail device and combines elements of sailing and surfing.

Don't just stop training when your season is over. The game pressure is over until next year! It's good to take a break from your sport, but there is a danger in letting your break last a little too long. In the off-season, it's important for you to maintain an effective training plan designed to keep you in shape.

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