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ArticleSports health2012

Overtraining syndrome: a practical guide.

Jeffrey B Kreher, Jennifer B Schwartz

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Article in Sports health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04059120 (Expression of BNDF Through Stretching as a Recovery Mechanism in Subjects With Overtraining), which is not on this map. Cited by 126 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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126citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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NCT04059120 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

Expression of BNDF Through Stretching as a Recovery Mechanism in Subjects With Overtraining

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversidad de ColimaRan2018 to 2020Enrolled25ConditionsExerciseArmsExperimental group whit specific stretching, Control group whit out specific stretching
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126 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 340 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeffrey B KreherDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery-Pediatric Orthopaedics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jennifer B Schwartz
Cambridge Health Alliance · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextFatigue and underperformance are common in athletes. Understanding overtraining syndrome (OTS) is helpful in the evaluation, management, and education of athletes. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: Relevant articles in English were searched with OVID (1948-2011) and PubMed using the following keywords: overtraining syndrome, overtraining, overreaching, unexplained underperformance, staleness, pathophysiology, management, treatment, evaluation. Bibliographies were reviewed for additional resources.

resultsOTS appears to be a maladapted response to excessive exercise without adequate rest, resulting in perturbations of multiple body systems (neurologic, endocrinologic, immunologic) coupled with mood changes. Many hypotheses of OTS pathogenesis are reviewed, and a clinical approach to athletes with possible OTS (including history, testing, and prevention) is presented.

conclusionsOTS remains a clinical diagnosis with arbitrary definitions per the European College of Sports Science's position statement. History and, in most situations, limited serologies are helpful. However, much remains to be learned given that most past research has been on athletes with overreaching rather than OTS.

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evaluationmanagementoverreachingovertrainingovertraining syndromepathophysiologystalenesstreatmentunexplained underperformance

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PMID23016079
PMCPMC3435910
OpenAlexW1995288747

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