Sport-Exercise and Stress: A Winning Combination
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 50556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: autonomic nervous system; lifestyle
Interests: exercise physiology; cardiac rehabilitation; autonomic nervous system; hypertension; heart failure
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sympathetic activity; autonomic nervous system; heart rate variability; sport; exercise; exercise Medicine; applied physiology; computational physiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The link between physical activity and stress is complex and fascinating. Stress management techniques are now considered an important tool to improve physical performance, particularly in elite sports; on the other hand, regularly performing exercise represents a strategy to manage chronic stress, particularly when the exercise is correctly prescribed.
Physical exercise and stress share another important issue: Both act on the main control systems of the body—immunological, hormonal, and autonomic nervous systems—and may have an epigenetic role.
Many chronic noncommunicable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension, diabetes, obesity, some forms of cancer, and functional syndromes (conditions characterized by the presence of somatic symptoms that cannot be explained in terms of conventionally defined medical disease entities) are characterized per se by an impairment of immunological, hormonal, and autonomic nervous system controls that may be worsened by sedentariness and stress and may be improved by physical training and stress management.
Stress management techniques, such as mindfulness, mental relaxation, and psychological strategies such as a cognitive behavioral approach or motivational interview, may play an important role in improving physical performance in athletes or helping healthy subjects or patients to improve their behavior, introducing physical exercise in daily life.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health aims to collect papers which explore the fascinating relationship between sport or exercise and stress, considering all the possible links, for instance, etiopathogenetic mechanisms (genetic, molecular, immunological, hormonal, autonomic nervous systems, etc.), therapeutic strategies, epidemiological, educational and preventive aspects, considering patients, healthy subjects, and athletes of traditional sport disciplines and of new frontiers or sport such as e-Sport (electronic sport), which is an emerging and interesting phenomenon.
Prof. Dr. Daniela Lucini
Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Iellamo
Prof. Dr. Massimo Pagani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sport
- Exercise
- Exercise medicine
- Stress management
- Autonomic nervous system
- Performance, lifestyle
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