Call For Abstracts

Call for Abstracts (Poster Presentations) at the 6th Annual Conference and Expo
New Orleans LA - Sheraton Hotel, June 14-16, 2009

All Abstracts will be published in the JISSN and therefore be accessible via PubMed. You will be notified of acceptance or rejection no later than June 5, 2009.

Please Note: You still need to pay the conference registration fee if you are presenting a poster. The conference registration fee is waived only for those who give tutorial (oral) presentations.

Guidelines & Format

• One of authors, preferably the lead author, must be present in front of their poster at the scheduled time.
• All expenses are to be covered by the presenting author(s).
• Please limit the word count to 500 words or less.
• Poster must be written and presented in lucid English.
• Submit a Microsoft Word document using the format below.
• If you have any conflicts of interest, please denote that in the acknowledgements. For more information on the ISSN Legal Policy, Click Here.

DEADLINE: May 21, 2009

Submit all abstracts to Chad M. Kerksick, Ph.D., Chad_Kerksick@ou.edu  and CC the following email as well, issn@sportsnutritionsociety.org . (Dr. Kerksick,  phone contact: (405)-325-9021)

Example for Abstract Formatting

The effect of phosphatidylserine on golf performance

Ralf Jäger¹, Martin Purpura¹, Kurt-Reiner Geiss², Michael Weiss³, Jochen Baumeister³, Francesco Amatulli&sup4;, Lars Schröder&sup4;, Holger Herwegen&sup4;
 

1. Increnovo LLC, 2138 E Lafayette Pl, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA
2. ISME, Weingartenstrasse 2, D-64546 Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany
3. Department of Sport and Health, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
4. Department of Sport and Health, Institute of Sports Medicine and Golf Academy, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

 

Background

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was performed to evaluate the effect of oral phosphatidylserine (PS) supplementation on golf performance in healthy young golfers with handicaps of 15-40.

Methods

Perceived stress, heart rate and the quality of the ball flight was evaluated before (pre-test) and after (post-test) 42 days of 200 mg per day PS (n = 10) or placebo (n = 10) intake in the form of a nutritional bar. Subjects teed-off 20 times aiming at a green 135 meters from the tee area.

Results

PS supplementation significantly increased (p less than 0.05) the number of good ball flights (mean: pre-test 8.3+/-3.5, post-test 10.1+/-3.0), whereas placebo intake (mean: pre-test 7.8+/-2.4, post-test 7.9+/-3.6) had no effect. PS supplementation showed a trend towards improving perceived stress levels during teeing-off (mean: pre-test 5.8+/-2.0, post-test 4.0+/-2.0, p=0.07), whereas stress levels remained unchanged in the placebo group (mean: pre-test: 5.1+/-2.0, post-test: 5.1+/-3.1). Supplementation did not influence mean heart rate in either group.

Conclusion

It is concluded that six weeks of PS supplementation shows a statistically not significant tendency (p=0.07) to improve perceived stress levels in golfers and significantly improves (p less than 0.05) the number of good ball flights during tee-off which might result in improved golf scores.

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Dr. Michael Kingsley, University of Wales Swansea, and Bill Yanko, Golf Professional, Member of the PGA, for a critical reading of the manuscript and Cargill Texturizing Solutions, Lise-Meitner-Str. 30, D-85354 Freising, Germany, and Giventis GmbH, Weingartenstr. 2, D-64646 Mörfelden, Germany, for funding this research and Chemi Nutra, 4463 White Bear Pkwy, Suite 105, White Bear Lake, MN 55110, USA, for funding the manuscript publication.