Sports Medicine

Head:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hecksteden Anne

​Team:
Dr. Raffaele Mazzolari, PhD
Dr. Patrick Rodrigues, PhD
Brit Stepper, MSc

Focus

  • Interplay of health and physical activity across the full spectrum of engagement, performance, and loading capacity - from training therapy and preventive exercise to elite sports
  • Individualization and decision support in preventive and competitive sport 
    >Understanding and optimizing individual response to exercise training 
    >Fitting exercise based and pharmaceutical prevention
    >Recovery management and injury risk mitigation in elite sports
  • Molecular aspects of training adaptation and exercise physiology
  • Gender differences in competitive sports (e.g. differences in trainability and performance capacity between cycle phases including their interindividual variability)

Lifespan Perspective

  • As many effects of training require long-term engagement, physical activity across the lifespan is an integral part of sports medicine. The overarching focus is individualization and decision support

Externally Funded Projects

  • I-REP Individualisierte Regeneration & Verletzungsprädiktion im Hochleistungssport. (Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, ZMI4-070503/23-24, in Kooperation mit der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln)
  • The effect of using internal and external measures of exercise intensity to guide training prescription and monitoring on acute physiological response and chronic adaptations in healthy adults. (Tiroler Nachwuchsforscher*innenförderung, Dr. Mazzolari)

Methods

  • Physical examination and sports medical history 
  • Spiroergometry with all relevant forms of exercise (bicycle ergometer, treadmill, hand crank, field tests) and for a wide range of study participants
  • Capillary and venous blood sampling at rest and during exercise
  • Measurement of oxygen saturation in blood and tissue
  • Echocardiography and sonography (in laboratory and field)
  • Muscle biopsies

Publication Highlights

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