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Nutrition And Fitness Guide For Graduating Student-Athletes, Anna Fukunaga
Nutrition And Fitness Guide For Graduating Student-Athletes, Anna Fukunaga
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
For the last four years of your life, you have been supported by strength coaches, academic advisors, athletic trainers, tutors, mentors, and coaches. Your life is dedicated to your sport, and your body is molded into the ideal build to compete at the highest level you can achieve. As soon as your competitive days are over, your life dramatically changes and the needs of your body change as well. Because you typically do not sustain the same level of activity, you do not have the same nutritional needs. The demands you place on your body for your sport are higher …
Utah State University Return To Play Criteria Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery, Benjamin Hamilton
Utah State University Return To Play Criteria Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery, Benjamin Hamilton
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
An injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee is a very traumatic experience. Most of these injuries will be a complete rupture of that ligament, and because of the nature of the ligament, the repair process will require surgery; however, a small number of athletes have learned how to successfully stabilize the ACL-deficient knee and return to activity (Hartigan et al, 2010). For the thousands of athletes who undergo surgery to repair their ACL, this is in hopes they can return to physical competition and an active lifestyle. The ACL is also repaired in hopes of preventing …