Color Doppler ultrasonography study of highly qualified wrestler and football players upper and lower extremity arteries.
Reaching high results in sports is main problem in the field of modern sport. It is based on sportsman's appropriate health condition to meet high intensity and amount of training and competition load. Highly qualified sportsmen wrestlers (30 individuals) and football players (25 individuals) were studied. Age range was 18-25 years. The aim was to study upper and lower extremity artery functional condition during rest and physical exercise among highly qualified wrestlers and footballers. Colour duplex sonography was performed by apparatus Acuson 128 x P/10, transducers -7.5 MHz lineal. Upper and lower extremity arteries simultaneous visual examination was performed in B-regime with blood stream colour cartogram and blood stream spectral analysis. Upper and lower extremity artery colour duplex sonography study revealed that wrestlers' upper extremity artery lumen diameter and blood stream flow was 1 fold increased. Study also demonstrates lower extremity middle calibre artery lumen diameter 1.5 fold increase after exercise in football players than in wrestlers. Thus, upper and lower extremity arteries differently react on physical exercise among sportsmen of different kinds, e.g. footballer lower extremity artery diameter and blood flow reach high levels more than in wrestlers, while, the same parameters in upper extremities arteries do so in wrestles, rather than in footballers.
Department of Medical Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Tbilisi State Medical University.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001158:Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005538:Football; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011361:Professional Competence; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D014952:Wrestling