Sports and Performance Psychology

Hamstring injuries are the bane of athletes in every sport that requires open-field running. While preventive programs, such as the FIFA 11+ protocols, have shown some efficacy at reducing their frequency, hamstring injuries remain the most common ailment in baseball, football and soccer, most of which require sizable absences and feature high recurrence rates. Artificial intelligence could help. Orreco and its newly assembled, dozen-member Motion Data Collective is touting new proprietary machine learning algorithms that it says can identify 85% of hamstring injuries in elite male soccer players with 86% specificity.

After his brother’s suicide and a career-altering injury, the quarterback found a way to cope—and to come out stronger than before.

Sometimes a sports injury is inevitable.

FOOTBALL clubs are being “deficient, neglectful and possibly negligent” because of inadequate psychological support for injured players, a study has found.

When you take up sports, how much of a big athlete you may be or how much ever you try to avoid it, you are prone to injuries. Some injuries can be managed with little to no disturbance in sports and other activities of daily living but some have a substantial physical and mental burden.

Every instance of head trauma, whether it happens in a live game or in preseason practice—like Ben Roethlisberger’s—should be taken seriously by the NFL, fans and media.

Feliciano Lopez will tie Federer’s streak of playing in 65 consecutive Grand Slam singles tournaments at the French Open.

By adjusting practice and shootaround schedules, limiting travel and stressing importance of sleep, teams try to keep players healthier.

There's a danger that this article is going feel a bit like a seven-step illustrated guide (or, say, a TED Talk) on how to tie your shoes, but please stick with me. There's an important message here that's more subtle than the headline suggests, and it's something you can fix.

Qualisys and Tobii Pro partner to create sports and medical solutions.

There's a limit to how fast a human can go, but we're not there yet.

With so many young athletes dying by suicide recently, IMG Academy talks about how they treat their athlete's physical and mental well-being and has a message for parents of young athletes.

The sports world has improved its approach to addressing mental health in recent years, but more can be done for athletes at all levels.

Finding solutions to a deep rooted mentality to try to change the game

A torn A.C.L. ended Deshaun Watson’s rookie season after seven games. Now he’s back and, with a few tweaks to his game, he has led the Texans to nine straight wins.

Want to know who will win a World Cup game or Wimbledon match? Look closely at the athletes’ eyes — including when it seems they're about to lose.

After tearing a knee ligament, Laura Siegemund, 30, gained something professional tennis players rarely have: free time.

Auburn engineering professor Michael Zabala is using Vicon motion-capture cameras to study joint alignment in young female athletes to help prevent ACL injuries.

SOUL Electronics debuted AI earphones at this week's CES in Las Vegas. Created with Gait Analysis, the earphones can provide live coaching during a users run to help improve performance and minimize injury risk.

Injury Prevention Technology Put To The Test During 2016 Rio Olympics from Kitman Labs and their CEO, Stephen Smith and team.