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- Title
Injuries and Medical Issues in Synchronized Olympic Sports.
- Authors
Mountjoy, Margo
- Abstract
Spectators of the Olympic Games can enjoy a wide variety of sports, including strength, team, timed, endurance, and artistic sports. In the Olympic program, there are two synchronized events: synchronized diving and synchronized swimming. The precision of the synchronization of the athlete's movements and skills is an added feature of entertainment. Synchronized athletes have additional training requirements to perfect the synchronization of their skills. The physical demands on the athlete from the repetition of training required for the perfection of synchronization result in injuries unique to these sports. Although both traumatic and overuse injuries occur, overuse injuries are more common. As these disciplines are artistic, judged sports, these athletes also are susceptible to eating disorders and the female athlete triad. This article reviews the training regimen of these athletes and outlines the injuries and health concerns that are common in the synchronized sports.
- Subjects
SYNCHRONIZED swimmers; EATING disorders; APPETITE disorders; SYNCHRONIZED swimming; ATHLETE training; SPORTS injuries; WOUNDS &; injuries
- Publication
Current Sports Medicine Reports (American College of Sports Medicine), 2009, Vol 8, Issue 5, p255
- ISSN
1537-890X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181b84a09