Table of contents

Abstracts from the FIVB Volleyball Medicine Congress Bled, Slovenia, 13–15 January 2011

• Physiology: Hormonal stress in adolescent female volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  J C Cruz-Márquez, J C Cruz-Campos, A Cruz-Campos, MªB Cueto-Martín, Mª García-Jiménez
• Physiology: Effect of altitude training on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and blood pressure in women (10 April, 2011)

  J C Cruz-Márquez, J C Cruz-Campos, A Cruz-Campos, MªB Cueto-Martín, Mª García-Jiménez, MªT Campos-Blasco
• Injury Epidemiology: Intrinsic risk factors for sport injuries in female volleyball (10 April, 2011)

  T Sattler
• Upper Limb Injury: The relationship between different adaptational changes and injury in the dominant shoulder of female overhead athletes (10 April, 2011)

  K Tonin, K Stražar, G Vidmar, I Tomšič, H Burger
• Physiology: Oxidative stress status in elite female volleyball athletes with depleted iron stores (10 April, 2011)

  J Martinovic, V Dopsaj, J Kotur-Stevuljević, M Dopsaj, G Nesic
• Upper Limb Injury: Study of proprioceptive function in professional volleyball athletes with atrophy of the infraspinatus (10 April, 2011)

  J I Salles, H Alves, M V Amaral, M Cagy, V Cunha-Cruz, R Piedade, P Ribeiro
• Performance: Two year training induced changes in anthropometric and strength characteristics of national team male volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  J M Sheppard, E Nolan, R U Newton
• Spine Injury: Lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration in Japanese male volleyball players belonging to the national team (10 April, 2011)

  M Hayashi, Y Hamu, Y Hashimoto, K Kaneoka, M Hangai, T Okuwak
• Lower Limb Injury: Risk factors for patellar tendinopathy in volleyball players: a cross-sectional study (10 April, 2011)

  H van der Worp, M van Ark, J Zwerver, I van den Akker-Scheek
• Lower Limb Injury: The effect of player position on patellar tendinopathy in volleyball (10 April, 2011)

  N Mahieu, R De Ridder, L Reynaert, K Strubbe, W Poppe, A Cools, P Roosen
• Lower Limb Injury: Risk factors for patellar tendinopathy in competitive volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  R De Ridder, N Mahieu, L Reynaert, W Poppe, K Strubbe, A Cools, P Roosen
• Lower Limb Injury: Dynamic quadriceps angle: a comparison of female elite volleyball players with and without patellofemoral pain syndrome (10 April, 2011)

  M Massada, R Aido, C Magalhães, N Puga
• Lower Limb Injury: The TOPGAME-study: effectiveness of extracorporeal shockwave therapy in jumping athletes with patellar tendinopathy (10 April, 2011)

  J Zwerver, I van den Akker-Scheek, F Hartgens, H van de Worp, E Verhagen, R L Diercks
• Biomechanics: Concentric and eccentric strength profile of quadriceps and hamstrings in healthy volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  V Hadzic, E Dervisevic, M Veselko
• Biomechanics: Landing frequencies and types of landings in sub-elite male volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  M van Ark, J Zwerver, G J Pepping
• Biomechanics: Dependence of human maximum vertical counter-movement jump height on activation sequence of the biarticular muscles (10 April, 2011)

  M Bračič, M Supej, Z Matjačić
• Physiology: Possible differences in hematological status between junior and elite female volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  R Milić, M Dopsaj
• Physiology: Respiratory parameters of elite national water polo and volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  J Plavsic, S Djordjevic-Saranovic, T Gavrilovic, J Zlatkovic, S Mazic
• Physiology: Effect of altitude training on haematological variables in women volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  B Cueto-Martín, J C de la Cruz-Márquez, J C de la Cruz-Campos, A de la Cruz-Campos
• Physiology: Long-term Holter ECG monitoring of volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  J C de la Cruz-Campos, J C de la Cruz-Márquez, B Cueto-Martín, A de la Cruz-Campos
• Physiology: Electrocardiographic profile of volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  J C de la Cruz-Márquez, B Cueto-Martín, J C de la Cruz-Campos, A de la Cruz-Campos
• Physiology: The age and gender effects on heart rate in children school volleyball players from Bosnia and Herzegovina (10 April, 2011)

  A Masala, A Bajraktarevic, M Miokovic, M Omerovic, A Rovcanin, L Sporisevic
• Performance: Assessment of elite-level volleyball players' performance and fitness based on biometric data (10 April, 2011)

  D Miyamoto, S Arima, T Ogiuchi, M Netsu, S Kanari, K Yakama, I Hamano
• Performance: Play structure of top female volleyball players: explorative factorial approach (10 April, 2011)

  G Nesic, M Sikimic, V Ilic, T Stojanovic
• Performance: Time analysis of men's and youth boy's top-level volleyball (10 April, 2011)

  M Häyrinen, H Lehto, T Mikkola, P Honkanen, P Lahtinen, A Paananen, M Blomqvist
• Performance: Factor structure differences of indicators for evaluating isometric leg extensors explosive force in female volleyball athletes and different trained female population (10 April, 2011)

  J Ivanović, M Dopsaj, G Nešić
• Performance: Level of play related anthropometric differences in volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  M Zadraznik, E Dervisevic
• Biomechanics: Biomechanical analysis of the jump serve in men's volleyball (10 April, 2011)

  M Häyrinen, T Mikkola, P Honkanen, P Lahtinen, A Paananen, M Blomqvist
• Biomechanics: Study of extensor and flexor musculature in the knees of male and female volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  D Rodríguez-Ruiz, D Rodríguez-Matoso, M E Quiroga, S Sarmiento, M E Da Silva-Grigoletto
• Biomechanics: Off-balance dorsal position at volleyball service involved in sciatic nerve inflammation (10 April, 2011)

  M S Ntolopoulou
• Lower Limb Injury: Tendinopathy in volleyball elite players: prevalence of injuries, clinical and imaging evaluation (10 April, 2011)

  R Aido, M Massada, N Leitão, C Magalhães, J C Vasconcelos, J M Lourenço, N Puga
• Lower Limb Injury: Epidemiology of the injuries of the locomotor system in elite volleyball players (10 April, 2011)

  R Aido, M Massada, N Leitão, C Magalhães, N Puga
• Lower Limb Injury: The ‘stable/unstable’ chronic isolated anterior syndesmotic injury: A presentation of three cases and a new surgical technique (10 April, 2011)

  L Laver, S Massarwa, G Mann, O Mei-Dan, G Maoz, M Nyska
• Lower Limb Injury: The relationship between patellar tendinopathy risk factors and ground reaction forces during cross-over block jump landings (10 April, 2011)

  I Janssen, J R Steele, B J Munro, N A T Brown
• Injury Epidemiology: Injury prediction in volleyball players. (10 April, 2011)

  J C de la Cruz-Márquez, B Cueto-Martín, J C de la Cruz-Campos, A de la Cruz-Campos
• Injury Epidemiology: Developing an injury tracking software system specific for volleyball: a case example (10 April, 2011)

  K R Yasher, K Liller, S Wong, S Jang, B J Morris, J G Konin
• Injury Epidemiology: An analysis of volleyball injuries in female athletes in grades nine through twelve (10 April, 2011)

  K R Yasher, K Liller, S Wong, S Jang, B J Morris, J G Konin
• Injury Epidemiology: Incidence of volleyball injuries in elite junior female players: a retrospective cohort study (10 April, 2011)

  G Nesic, V Ilic, M Sikimic, M Dopsaj
• Injury Epidemiology: Volleyball injuries: a survey of injuries of the Portuguese Female National Team (10 April, 2011)

  M Massada, R Aido, C Magalhaes, N Puga
• Injury Epidemiology: Injuries in a Russian male professional volleyball team during the 2009–2010 season (10 April, 2011)

  Y M Demin, G Y Shipulin
• Injury Prevention: Anti-doping activites of volleyball in Japan (10 April, 2011)

  Y Hashimoto, T Yamashita, Y Hamu, M Hayashi
• Injury Prevention: A guidebook for volleyball-related health problems using Manga and educational activities for injury prevention: Volleyball 911 (10 April, 2011)

  M Hayashi, Y Hamu, Y Hashimoto
• Injury Prevention: Systematic sports medical prophylactic evaluations in the countries of the former USSR (10 April, 2011)

  P Mustafins, A Landyr, I Schybria, J Istomina, T Gurevich
• Upper Limb Injury: The effect of progressive endurance-strength training and electrical stimulation on muscle strength and surface electromyography parameters in volleyball players with infraspinatus syndrome (10 April, 2011)

  N Shavandi, R S Hoseini
• Upper Limb Injury: Hypothenar hammer syndrome in a middle blocker – case report and brief review (10 April, 2011)

  M Massada, R Aido, C Magalhaes, N Puga