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Ethics and the athlete: why sports are more than a game but less than a warSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 2615 E Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55406, USA
Clin Sports Med 23:215-25, vi. 2004..This work enables readers to appreciate more clearly both the contextual subtleties and the robust relationship between ethics and the athlete...- Pedometers as a means to increase ambulatory activity for patients seen at a family medicine clinicSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55406, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 18:335-43. 2005..The results of this pilot study highlight the need for further research on the use of pedometers as a motivational tool in the context of medical encounters with inactive patients... - Professionalism and the ethics of the sideline physicianSteven D Stovitz
University of Minnesota, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, 2615 E Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55406, USA
Curr Sports Med Rep 5:120-4. 2006..Standard rules of confidentiality and patient autonomy may not apply. We propose the use of professionalism as a guide for the sideline physician when faced with difficult ethical situations... 
Pediatric obesity: the unique issues in Latino-American male youthSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Prev Med 34:153-60. 2008....- Hyperpronation and foot pain: steps toward pain-free feetSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, USA
Phys Sportsmed 32:19-26. 2004..Interventions that seek to reduce hyperpronation and strengthen foot muscles are often recommended for treating foot pain... 
Growing into obesity: patterns of height growth in those who become normal weight, overweight, or obese as young adultsSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA
Am J Hum Biol 23:635-41. 2011..To study whether patterns of height growth differ by adult obesity status, and determine the contribution of subcutaneous fatness as an explanatory variable for any differences...- Child height and the risk of young-adult obesitySteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55414, USA
Am J Prev Med 38:74-7. 2010..Childhood obesity is a major risk factor for adult obesity, and obese children tend to be taller than their normal-weight peers... - Bone volumetric density, geometry, and strength in female and male collegiate runnersAmanda J Smock
School of Kinesiology, Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 41:2026-32. 2009..To explore differences in tibial bone geometry, volumetric density, and estimates of bone strength in runners and healthy controls... - Is baseline physical activity a determinant of participation in worksite walking clubs? Data from the HealthWorks TrialJeffrey J VanWormer
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Phys Act Health 9:849-56. 2012..Some evidence suggests that physical activity programs mainly attract employees who are already active. This study examined the degree to which baseline physical activity was associated with enrollment in worksite walking clubs... - The interaction of childhood height and childhood BMI in the prediction of young adult BMISteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2336-41. 2008.... - Is Baseline Physical Activity a Determinant of Participation in Worksite Walking Clubs? Data From the HealthWorks TrialJeffrey J VanWormer
Dept of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Epidemiology Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI
J Phys Act Health 9:849-56. 2012..Some evidence suggests that physical activity programs mainly attract employees who are already active. This study examined the degree to which baseline physical activity was associated with enrollment in worksite walking clubs... - Do youth sports prevent pediatric obesity? A systematic review and commentaryToben F Nelson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Curr Sports Med Rep 10:360-70. 2011..Additional research may foster understanding about how sport, and youth sport settings, can help promote energy balance and healthy body weight... - Musculoskeletal pain in obese children and adolescentsSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Acta Paediatr 97:489-93. 2008..To determine whether bodyweight is associated with musculoskeletal pain within a population of obese children and adolescents... - Foot pain: biomechanical basics as a guide for assessment and treatmentJoseph Schuster
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Phys Sportsmed 37:80-6. 2009..Pathologic biomechanics are generally divided into excessive pronation or excessive supination. Treatment is often directed at minimizing the pathologic biomechanical forces to assist with pain-free walking... - Bone geometry, strength, and muscle size in runners with a history of stress fractureKristin L Popp
School of Kinesiology, Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 41:2145-50. 2009..Our secondary aim was to explore differences in bone geometry, volumetric density, and muscle size that may explain bone strength outcomes... - Participation in physical activity among normal- and overweight Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adolescentsSteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, 2615 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406, USA
J Sch Health 78:19-25. 2008..The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between weight status and participation in physical activity (PA) among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white (NHW) adolescent boys and girls... - Strength training and adiposity in premenopausal women: strong, healthy, and empowered studyKathryn H Schmitz
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:566-72. 2007..5-1 kg yearly, most of which is fat. Because few midlife women participate in strength training, this mode of activity may be a novel intervention for preventing age-associated fat increases in this population... - Addressing conflicts of interest and clouding of objectivity: BJSM's "peer review: fair review" sectionKarim M Khan
Centre for Hip Health and Musculoskeletal Research and Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Br J Sports Med 42:79. 2008