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Best practice for motor imagery: a systematic literature review on motor imagery training elements in five different disciplines
Corina Schuster, Roger Hilfiker, Oliver Amft, Anne Scheidhauer, Brian Andrews, Jenny Butler, Udo Kischka, Thierry Ettlin BMC Medicine 2011, 9:75 (17 June 2011)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
Mental practice of a physical task can improve skill in areas such as education, medicine, music and sports, and characteristics of successful motor imagery training sessions across disciplines are similar despite differences in the physical tasks themselves.
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Neuromuscular training with injury prevention counselling to decrease the risk of acute musculoskeletal injury in young men during military service: a population-based, randomised study
Jari Parkkari, Henri Taanila, Jaana Suni, Ville M Mattila, Olli Ohrankämmen, Petteri Vuorinen, Pekka Kannus, Harri Pihlajamäki BMC Medicine 2011, 9:35 (11 April 2011)
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Editor’s summary
Neuromuscular training and injury prevention counseling is effective in decreasing the risk of acute musculoskeletal injury in young men in the military, and may be applicable to the general population as a means of avoiding injury when exercising.
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Relationship between knee and ankle degeneration in a population of organ donors
Carol Muehleman, Arkady Margulis, Won C Bae, Koichi Masuda BMC Medicine 2010, 8:48 (28 July 2010)
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Editor’s summary
In osteoarthritis, gender and body type have a greater effect on knee joint integrity than ankle and degeneration is not balanced between joints, suggesting that increasing differences in condition result in mismatched limb kinetics and disease progression.
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