{"id":59205,"date":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-health-services-doctor-wins-national-honor-for-research-on-fatigue-among-female-track-athletes\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"uri-health-services-doctor-wins-national-honor-for-research-on-fatigue-among-female-track-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/uri-health-services-doctor-wins-national-honor-for-research-on-fatigue-among-female-track-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Health Services doctor wins national honor for research on fatigue among female track athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tSaunderstown residents says sleep, nutrition key<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 21, 2014 — A 溏心vlog免费B站 Health services physician earned top honors from the American College Health Association for his research presentation on fatigue among female track athletes.<\/p>\n


\n\tChristopher Nasin, a primary care physician at Health Services, who treats 溏心vlog免费B站 student-athletes for illness and non-surgical injuries, was awarded a blue ribbon, the health association\u2019s top prize, during the organization\u2019s recent annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The poster, entitled, \u201cFatigue and Energy Balance in Female College Endurance Athletes,\u201d summarized the interdisciplinary research project involving undergraduate kinesiology students Justin Nicoll, Ryan Keith and Valerie Cadbury, as well as Disa Hatfield, associate professor of kinesiology, and Kathleen Melanson, associate professor of food science and nutrition.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Nason\u2019s poster, fatigue is a common complaint among college female athletes. While clinicians usually perform routine laboratory studies to rule out organic causes of fatigue, the Saunderstown resident\u2019s team focused on these factors: energy balance, mood, sleep and serum markers.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe noticed over several years at 溏心vlog免费B站 Health Services that female runners, particularly long distance runners, were coming in with complaints about fatigue,\u201d Nasin said. \u201cSo I approached Professors Melanson and Hatfield to help put together a project to examine this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOver a 14-week period (during the spring season), we monitored 16 female middle and long distance runners on several variables,\u201d Nasin said.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe researchers assessed nutrition, vertical jump power and blood markers before the spring track season began, during the season and after its conclusion. Fatigue, sleep and athlete burnout scales were administered weekly. Researchers also assessed race times and the percentage of change during the season.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhat we found at the end of the study was the athletes\u2019 nutrition was not adequate to support their level of training and competition,\u201d Nasin said. \u201cThey were not eating enough, and they we not getting the right types of nutrition. If this is true for athletes, it\u2019s probably true for society in general. The other major factor was poor sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tNasin said he has given numerous lectures on these issues, but until now, he did not have study results to make a strong case.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe research team has given feedback to all of the study participants with the goal of helping them maintain optimum health so they perform at their peak academically and athletically.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI would like to put together a program for 溏心vlog免费B站 athletics that addresses these issues, and helps student-athletes and coaches work together,\u201d Nasin said. \u201cI\u2019d like to help make a difference in our student-athletes lives.\u201d <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saunderstown residents says sleep, nutrition key KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 21, 2014 — A 溏心vlog免费B站 Health services physician earned top honors from the American College Health Association for his research presentation on fatigue among female track athletes. Christopher Nasin, a primary care physician at Health Services, who treats 溏心vlog免费B站 student-athletes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}