Review of \u3cem\u3eOcean Meets Sky\u3c/em\u3e by Terry Fan

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Review of \u3cem\u3eA Most Unusual Day\u3c/em\u3e by Sydra Malfery

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Review of \u3cem\u3eI\u27ll Root for You\u3c/em\u3e by Edward Van de Vendel

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Review of \u3cem\u3eI Got It!\u3c/em\u3e by David Weisner

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Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Epic Adventures of Huggie and Stick\u3c/em\u3e by Drew Daywalt

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Review of \u3cem\u3eA Parade of Elephants\u3c/em\u3e by Kevin Henke

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Exploring the role of self-compassion in women athletes' emotionally painful experiences of injury in sport

Injury is a common and emotionally painful aspect of sport participation for female athletes. Playing through injury is normalized in sport culture; unfortunately, this practice holds short- and long-term health risks. Self-compassion has been endorsed as a resource for female athletes coping with injury and is purported to result in better health-related choices. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of self-compassion in competitive women athletes’ self-care behaviours following emotionally painful experiences of injury. Participants were 159 female athletes ranging in age from 18-49 years who completed an online survey. Five measures of emotional pain were used: negative affect, threat appraisal, badness rating, emotional difficulty, and a composite score comprised of the previous four measures. Self-compassion was negatively related to negative affect (r = -.26, p < .01), threat appraisal (r = -.19, p < .05), and the emotional pain composite score (r = -.18, p < .05) but not to badness rating or emotional difficulty rating. Self-compassion did not contribute unique variance, beyond self-esteem and athletic identity, in the emotional pain measures. The emotional pain composite score was negatively related to self-compassionate reactions (r = -.23, p < .01), positive reactions (r = -.30, p < .01), and perseverant reactions (r = -.16, p < .05) and positively related to ruminative reactions (r = .54, p < .01), passive reactions (r = .24, p < .01), and self-critical reactions (r = .48, p < .01). Unexpectedly, emotional pain was positively correlated with stopping training (r = .34, p < .01), reduced training frequency (r = .33, p < .01), reduced training intensity (r = .27, p < .01), and reduced training duration (r = .33, p < .01) and not significantly related to responsible reactions or stopping the session in which the injury was incurred. Neither self-compassion nor fear of self-compassion moderated the relationship between emotional pain and self-care behaviours. Participants also completed an open-ended question in which they described in detail everything they did to care for their injuries. A codebook was developed and used to analyze the responses. Self-care behaviours fell into the following categories: diagnostics, rest, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, treatment, and training accommodations. Athletes reported using an average of 3.38 self-care behaviours - most commonly describing obtaining a medical diagnosis and undergoing treatment. Self-compassion was not related to the number of self-care behaviours used by participants or the use of any individual behaviour. Overall, the results suggest that self-compassion plays a role in women athletes’ injury experiences; however, likely due to the complex and multifaceted nature of injury, the relationships might not manifest in perfect concordance with theoretical conceptualizations

Conservative Treatment for Meniscus Rehabilitation

The purpose of this review is to produce a nonsurgical treatment plan for meniscus injuries using therapeutic exercise, to eventually prepare the athlete for return to play after the sustained injury. Using therapeutic exercises, a rehabilitation program can be created for athletes who do not wish to pursue surgery. The treatment plan was designed for a soccer player who had a partially torn meniscus

Tuning Interparticle Hydrogen Bonding in Shear-Jamming Suspensions: Kinetic Effects and Consequences for Tribology and Rheology

The shear-jamming of dense suspensions can be strongly affected by molecular-scale interactions between particles, e.g. by chemically controlling their propensity for hydrogen bonding. However, hydrogen bonding not only enhances interparticle friction, a critical parameter for shear jamming, but also introduces (reversible) adhesion, whose interplay with friction in shear-jamming systems has so far remained unclear. Here, we present atomic force microscopy studies to assess interparticle adhesion, its relationship to friction, and how these attributes are influenced by urea, a molecule that interferes with hydrogen bonding. We characterize the kinetics of this process with nuclear magnetic resonance, relating it to the time dependence of the macroscopic flow behavior with rheological measurements. We find that time-dependent urea sorption reduces friction and adhesion, causing a shift in the shear-jamming onset. These results extend our mechanistic understanding of chemical effects on the nature of shear jamming, promising new avenues for fundamental studies and applications alike