As promised in yesterday’s post, today we kick off our latest series – Muscle Cramps. We hope that none of you did cramp in the middle of the night, as we mentioned yesterday! Though if you did, we’re sure you stretched your calf and avoided the temptation to point your toe! This is a follow-on […]
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Muscle cramp ‘teasers’. . .
Ah, the joys of the University calendar! We must apologize for our somewhat lengthy absence – it has been 5 days since we last did a post, which I think is the longest break we’ve had since we began The Science of Sport in April earlier this year! But we have good reason, for both […]
Running won’t save you from heart disease
As we have mentioned in our , it has been a bad year for sudden death in athletes. Add to this two more cases that we did not mention – former basketball legend Dennis Johnson, who died suddenly after a coaching session in February, and Denver Bronco running back Damien Nash (24) who collapsed and […]
Ryan Shay Autopsy Results Inconclusive
More detailed posts and insights on Ryan Shay and sudden death during exercise: – article published within the first hours of Shay’s death – performances and achievements – a discussion of Alberto Salazar’s heart attack earlier this year. Likely a different cause to that of Shay… – post written after the death of a young […]
Sudden death during exercise
Over the last few days, the world of sport and running in particular have been dominated by the New York Marathon, and the untimely and sad death of Ryan Shay, an elite marathon runner from the USA, during his country’s Olympic Trials. Whenever a healthy and fit athlete dies during competition, we sit up and […]