Adult Use of Complementary and Integrative Approaches to Improve Athletic Performance.

Context • In the United States in 2007, approximately 38% of adults, or 4 in 10, used some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). An area in which little is known is the personal integration of CAM therapies by those individuals seeking to improve athletic performance. Objectives • Th...

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Publicado en:Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 30 - 38
Autores principales: Evans Jr., Marion Willard, Ndetan, Harrison, Sekhon, Vishaldeep Ka, Williams Jr., Ronald, Oliver, Brittney, Perko, Michael, Woolsey, Conrad, Singh, Karan P., Evans, Marion Willard Jr, Ka Sekhon, Vishaldeep, Williams, Ronald Jr
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: InnoVisions Professional Media Jan2018
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          Evans Jr., Marion Willard
          Ndetan, Harrison
          Sekhon, Vishaldeep Ka
          Williams Jr., Ronald
          Oliver, Brittney
          Perko, Michael
          Woolsey, Conrad
          Singh, Karan P.
          Evans, Marion Willard Jr
          Ka Sekhon, Vishaldeep
          Williams, Ronald Jr
        affil: Professor and head of the Department of Food Science, Nutrition, and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.
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          Alternative Therapies Utilization
          Alternative Therapies Statistics and Numerical Data
          Athletic Performance Physiology
          Surveys
          Adolescence
          Middle Age
          Retrospective Design
          Young Adult
          Female
          United States
          Adult
          Male
          Interview Guides
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: Context • In the United States in 2007, approximately 38% of adults, or 4 in 10, used some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). An area in which little is known is the personal integration of CAM therapies by those individuals seeking to improve athletic performance. Objectives • The study intended to assess the use of integrative care by adult athletes in the United States as well as their satisfaction with it, as reported in the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Design • A secondary analysis of the data from the Adult Alternative Health/Complementary Medicine file of the 2012 NHIS was performed.Setting: The analysis was performed at the Research Institute of Parker University (Dallas, TX, USA). Participants • The NHIS survey was a representative sample of Americans, with more than 30 000 respondents. Outcome Measures • National population estimates were generated for all related variables. The study assessed the likelihood that a respondent who reported use of a specific complementary and integrative therapy as their first top therapeutic modality to enhance sport or athletic performance had perceived it helpful compared with those who used it for other non-sport-related reasons. Results • Complementary and integrative therapies were used by more than 14 million adults (20.5%) to improve athletic performance, with 97.6% of them perceiving therapies as helpful. The most used therapies were yoga, herbal supplements, manipulation, and massage. The median age of those reporting specific use to improve athletic performance was slightly less than 38 y, and women were almost 3 times as likely as men to report therapies as helpful. Conclusions • Complementary and integrative therapies were used for improvement of athletic performance by respondents of the 2012 NHIS, with high satisfaction among users. Future research could evaluate athletic-specific use, adverse effects, physiological mechanisms that may exist for the modalities, and ways to integrate these methods better with traditional medical care.
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