News and Events - School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Latest news and forthcoming events and seminars from the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.
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- A technique that enables patients suffering from heart conditions to hold their breath safely for over 5 minutes could have potential as part of a new treatment for cardiac arrhythmias.
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- 20/01/2020
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- Ruthless sportspeople often suspend their sense of right and wrong when they step onto the field of play – viewing sport as a different world where they jettison responsibility to act in a moral way.
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- 25/10/2019
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- Exercising before eating breakfast burns more fat, improves how the body responds to insulin and lowers people's risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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- 18/10/2019
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- Drs Sang-Hoon Yeo, Ned Jenkinson, Raymond Reynolds and Sam Lucas win UK-Korea Partnering Award 2019.
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- 14/10/2019
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- Teenage boys rely on social media to access information about living a healthy lifestyle – but rather than being victims of online harms, the majority are able to use humour, irony and banter to navigate social media.
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- 09/10/2019
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- A technique that will enable cancer patients to hold their breath during prolonged bouts of radiotherapy treatment has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
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- 20/09/2019
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- The UK's top doctors are recommending over-65s take up dancing, bowls or even activities like tai chi to help stave off injury and illness in old age.
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- 11/09/2019
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- Older people who have never taken part in sustained exercise programmes have the same ability to build muscle mass as highly trained master athletes of a similar age, according to new research.
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- 30/08/2019
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- Ellena is a 3rd year physiotherapy student from the University of Birmingham. She recently travelled to Lusaka, Zambia on a four-week physiotherapy placement.
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- 13/08/2019
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- An online course designed to help teachers better understand young people's uses of social media and how it influences their health and wellbeing is being launched at the University of Birmingham.
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- 08/08/2019
Seminars & Events
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- 11/03/2020
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- University of Birmingham
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 26/06/2020
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- University of Birmingham
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 27/06/2020
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 12/09/2020
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
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- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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- 17/10/2020
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- The perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current students and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Open Day
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