Posts Tagged ‘Sports medicine’

A recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) suggests that the mood enhancing effects of exercise can last longer than an hour, as previously thought. Compared with a control group that did not exercise, the survey group of healthy men and women who exercised reported enhanced moods up to 12 hours post-exercise. volunteers performed exercise at 60% of aerobic capacity, which indicates that moderate-intensity exercise is enough to boost mood. Because these effects appear to fade after 12 hours, the researchers are recommending daily exercise. Current ACSM guidelines recommend at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week, which can be achieved in 30 minute segments five days a week.

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University of Calgary researchers say there may be a connection between menstrual cycles and the laxity of a woman’s knee joint. Reporting in The American Journal of Sports Medicine the researchers noted that although knee laxity varied with the different phases of the menstrual cycle, women appear to have some periods of greater knee laxity. The cause of this relationship is unclear, but, this may be a factor in why female athletes are two and eight times more likely to injure their ACL knee ligaments than men.

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