Segmental Bioimpedance Analysis as a Predictor of Injury and Performance Status in Professional Basketball Players: A New Application Potential? by Alexander Bertuccioli, Marco Cardinali, Piero Benelli

“…Data were collected from 14 professional male athletes aged between 20 and 39 years of Caucasian and Afro-American ethnicity belonging to the US Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro Pesaro team in the Italian Serie A basketball championship. From an analysis of training injuries, the data highlight a possible positive link between the number of training injuries and upper hemisoma reactance (XCEmsSup) (t = 2.881, <i>p</i> = 0.007), an inverse relationship between training injury duration and higher right lower limb reactance (XCLegDx) (t = −4.213, <i>p</i> < 0.001), and an inverse relationship between injury duration and higher body mass index (t = −4.213, <i>p</i> < 0.001), highlighting how higher cellularity seems less prone to severe training injuries. …”
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