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Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport 2002: Sports Medicine and Science at the Extremes

Sunday 13 October - Poster Program

Health and Physical Activity
H. Lohrer -
Competitive sports and physical growth - agonism or antagonism
D. Taaffe -
The muscle strength and bone density relationship in young women: Dependence on exercise status
F.A. Morris - Development of a self-report questionnaire to reflect the diversity of womens’ physical activity
S. Marshall - The effect of exercise on DDE and bone mineral density in women aged 45-65
M. Watsford - Physical activity and the age-related decline of respiratory system function
M. Pine - The role of respiratory system function in the age-related decline of human functional capability
L. Dreyer - Self-actualisation, religious faith, lifestyle and health
M. Duncan - Accuracy of two makes of electronic pedometers for measuring step counts at various speeds
A.S. Leicht - Health responses of Vietnam Veterans to a 12-month exercise training programme
D. Van Der Westhuizen - Physical work capacity and some selected blood lipids in 10- to 18 year old males
K. Mehalski - Non-invasive Intramyocellular lipid determination by 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H MRS)
M. McDonald - Ground Reaction Force profiles for obese and non-obese individuals during gait

Psychology
V. Sullivan -
Personal investment predictors of exercise motivation among adolescents and older adults
W. Spinks - Motivational characteristics of Australian National Basketball Referees
J. Scott - Motivational characteristics of amateur and professional ice-hockey officials
H. Speed - Life beyond the winning post: The retirement experiences of jockeys
L. Stevens - Sexual Attraction in sport psychology service delivery
M. Walsh - Physical self-perceptions, eating and weight control behaviours in former female athletes of appearance-based sports
A. Watt Evidence related to the evaluation of measures of Sport Imagery

Injury Prevention and Recovery
A. Hall -
Confidence, mood, self efficacy and adherence to rehabilitation in recovery from sports injury
K. Welsh - Coaches’ and junior athletes’ views on coping skills for injury rehabilitation
A. McManus - Sports injury prevention: From research to policy and practice
R. Braham - To participate or not to participate? Why football players contribute to sports safety research
A. McIntosh - Rugby headgear study
T. Zazryn - Is safety a priority for football clubs?
R. Eime - The importance of sports venues promoting safety equipment

Stream 2: Exercise Science

Physiology and Performance - Teams
B. Dawson -
Player movement patterns and game activities in the AFL
M. Spencer - Time-motion analysis of elite field hockey during several games in succession: a tournament scenario
M.B. Brearley -
Elite hockey in a tropical environment
A. Edwards -
A comparison of aerobic capacity and lactate threshold prior to, and following, a full competitive season in 1st team British professional soccer players
G. Naughton - Physiological profile of players at a junior Australian rugby union tournament - A pilot study
T. Gabbett - A physiological profile of sub-elite junior and senior rugby league players
J. Azoury - A descriptive study of Australian elite Judo players
D. Bishop - The effects of travel on team performance in the Australian Netball Competition

Physiology and Performance - Individual
D. Bishop -
The validity of physiological variables to assess training intensity in kayak athletes
B. Dascombe - Force production in outrigger canoeing
M.B. Brearley - Responses to V8 Supercar driving in hot conditions
F. Marino - Glycerol hyperhydration failed to improve cycling performance in warm humid conditions
K. Linaker - A comparison of the physiological demands of well-trained cyclists to field and laboratory mountain bike race simulations
P.B. Laursen - Reproducibility of a laboratory-based 40-km cycle time-trial on a stationary wind-trainer in highly trained cyclists
P.B. Laursen - A comparison of cycling performance between cyclists and triathletes
R. Duffield - Comparison of VO2 kinetics during 800m, 1500m and 3000m track running events in trained athletes
R. Spurrs - Plyometric Training improves distance running performance: A case study
P. Micalos - The effect of short sleep ‘nap’ on endurance exercise in sleep deprived subjects
A. Scaysbrook - Exercise performance during the equivalent mid-luteal and mid follicular phases of the menstrual cycle in women taking a monophasic oral contraceptive

Recovery
K. Tarpenning -
Dose effect of creatine monohydrate supplementation on high intensity anaerobic performance and recovery
R. Weatherby - The effectiveness of using a sports plaster woven with a far infra-red emitting ceramic for muscle soreness induced by supramaximal loads
V.G. Coffey - Effect of recovery modality on 4-hour repeated treadmill running performance
V.G. Coffey - Effect of recovery modality on some physiological variables following treadmill running
S. Madon - Recovery from a sprint: Impact of active recovery

Stream 3: Exercise Science

Learning
T. Hale -
The influence of different forms of kinematic feedback on learning a rapid aiming task
C. Mesagno - An examination of whether explicit learners reinvest under stress
A. Whitty - The effects of discovery learning versus augmented feedback on novice skill performers
B. Stillman - Altered knee position sense in dedicated runners: Physiological or psychological?

Biomechanics
R. Lockie -
Effects of resisted sled towing on sprint kinematics in field sport athletes
A. Fradkin - The effects of a warm-up program on club head speed in male golfers
Q. Louw - Biomechanical landing patterns between injured knee and uninjured adolescent basketball players in Cape Town, South Africa
K. Ball - Biomechanical aspects of set-shot accuracy in AFL football
K. Bowles - Does current sports brassiere design impede respiratory function during physical activity?

Biochemistry
J. Buckley -
Effect of different automated lactate analysers on the determination of blood lactate transition thresholds
M Thompson - Effect of 84 hr fasting on plasma leptin concentration in endurance athletes
D. Kay - Influence of ambient temperature and hydration on metabolic responses during high intensity self-paced cycling exercise
P. Chapman - The effect of passively induced hyperthermia on muscle endurance in humans
P. Chapman - Increased resting metabolic rate with short-term starvation
K. Rooney - Creatine supplementation alters glucose homeostasis but not insulin secretion in humans

Sprints, Strength and Power

D. Bishop - Blood buffering capacity and pH, but not blood lactate, reflect changes within the muscle after repeated sprints
D. Bishop -
Muscle metabolism during repeated sprints in untrained females
C. Nottle - Proprioceptive and reflex responses of triceps surae to submaximal eccentric exercise
M. Crowe - Warm-up exercises and leg power
M Thompson - Muscle function following repeated maximal isometric contractions of the quadriceps
M. Kasbparast - Effect of one-handed exercise on the strength of the contralateral hand
K. Tarpenning - Effect of age on peak force and EMG signal parameters during maximal voluntary concentric and eccentric contractions
K. Tarpenning - Relationship between knee strength and single and repeated sprint ability in football players

Stream 4: Nutrition & Clinical

Body Composition
A.S. Leicht -
Bioelectrical impedance vs anthropometric determination of body composition in elite basketball referees
M. Kagawa - Validation of the Somatomorphic Matrix Computer Program for predicting body composition in Japanese and Australian caucasian males

Nutrition
S. Mayer -
The influence of a Taurine containing drink on cardiac parameters and physical performance: Results of four studies
B. Greenaway - Physique characteristics and competition nutrient intake of professional rugby league players
H. O'Connor - Anthropometric characteristics & dietary intakes of NRL Referees
F. Pelly - Sports nutrition recommendations of australian sports dietitians

Core Stability
R. Stanton  -
Swiss Ball training: current research and future recommendations

Lower Limb
K. Bennell -
The nature of anterior knee pain following injection of hypertonic saline into the infrapatellar fat pad
T. Barbour - Histology of the fascial-periosteal interface in lower limb chronic deep posterior compartment syndrome
G. Waddington - Training improves lower limb movement discrimination in active over 65 year old walkers
H. Lohrer - Results of operative treatment of Haglund’s syndrome
M. Constantinou - Ruptured tibialis anterior in a football game: Surgical repair and rehabilitation
D. Sturnieks - Factors affecting recovery from arthroscopic partial meniscectomy

The Shoulder
S.A. Hess -
Can cervical pain affect the pattern of contraction of the shoulder musculature? A case study
G. Murrell - Identification of predictive factors for workers’ compensation patients with poor self-assessed outcomes following SLAP stabilization
G. Murrell - Diagnosis and therapy of a superior glenoid labrum st with suprascapular nerve entrapment (GLEN lesion)

Tendons
G. Murrell -
Expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator and it’s receptor is up-regulated during tendon healing
A. Bryant - Activation of the quadriceps and hamstrings during isokinetic knee extension with acl deficiency and following reconstruction using either the patella or hamstring tendon grafts
A. Bryant - The effects of chronic anterior cruciate ligament deficiency on ground reaction forces, tibial acceleration and length changes of the hamstring muscles during landing and deceleration from single
legged long hop

Bone and Cartilage
J. Meerkin -
Bone mineral apparent density of transfemoral amputees
J. Jayarajan - Bone characteristics, menstrual factors and tibial stress fracture in female runners
R. Cordingley - Assessing the risk of femoral neck fractures using bone mineral densitometry measurements in hip resurfacing surgery
R. Cordingley - A prospective analysis of autologous chondrocyte implant (ACI) for regeneration of hyaline cartilage in full thickness defects in the femoral articular surface of the knee 


All copyright remains with Sports Medicine Australia.


The National Sport Information Centre Web Archive provides access to archive copies of materials in electronic forms. There is no inference that these materials necessarily reflect the current policy of any of the institutions or agencies that created them.