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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · 4d

Continuing our series on cooling in sport, featuring Dr Jill Alexander François Bieuzen Robert Allan Robin Thorpe PhD Mohammed Ihsan

🚨🆕📝The Contemporary Use of Cooling Modalities in the Recovery From Sport Injury

Link: clok.uclan.ac.uk/id/eprint/56...

Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · 11d

🚨🆕📝Adaptations to Post-exercise Cooling: Context Matters!

Link: 10.63020/pa.2025.3.1.16

Team: Robert Allan, François Bieuzen, Jill Alexander, Robin Thorpe, Mohammed Ihsan

Partners: INS Québec - Institut national du sport du Québec University of Lancashire Hong Kong Sports Institute

Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · 18d

🧑‍🦽‍➡️🥽 Early developments of a VR application for boccia, a Paralympic sport. The goal is to improve training accessibility while offering tailored tactical learning features.

👨‍🎓💻Congratulations to Ulysse Merrheim for the excellent work carried out under my supervision this summer.

Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · 18d

🚨🆕📝1H NMR urinary metabolomic analysis in recreational athletes: Impact of physical exercise, high intensity interval training and whole body cryostimulation

Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

Partners: Université de Poitiers INS Québec - Institut national du sport du Québec

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🆕📝The association between the risk of relative energy deficiency in sports and performance outcomes: A real-world examination of international elite volleyball male athletes

Link: doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2025.2517967

Partners: INS Québec Volleyball Canada McGill University

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · May 27

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: The Co-Creation of Representative Training Designs in Elite Water Polo Using a Scientist-Practitioner Approach

Open-access: doi.org/10.1080/2152...

Team: Lily Dong Nicolas Bourrel David Paradelo Sommer Christie Nicolas Berryman @thomasromeas.bsky.social

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · May 14

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: Current Resting Metabolic Rate Prediction Equations Lack Sensitivity and Specificity to Indicate Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport: A Large Cohort Study in Elite Athletes
doi.org/10.1123/ijsn...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · May 1

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: The relationship between match-play decision making and fatigue in elite women’s water polo: A novel recurrent events approach
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Team: Lily Dong, Thomas Romeas, Ali Filali-Mouhim, Nicolas Berryman
Partners: INS Québec, Water Polo Canada, @uqam.ca

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Apr 24

🥊Multi-person Physics-based Pose Estimation for Combat Sports
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Multi-person Physics-based Pose Estimation for Combat Sports

We propose a novel framework for accurate 3D human pose estimation in combat sports using sparse multi-camera setups. Our method integrates robust multi-view 2D pose tracking via a transformer-based t...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏒Beyond the trained eye: An objective method to predict game sense in team sports
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Beyond the trained eye: An objective method to predict game sense in team sports

Talent identification in sports requires a prediction of how athletes will perform in the future based on a sample of their behaviors. Perceptual cognitive-skills or ‘game sense’ in sports jargon i...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Apr 24

🤽The relationship between match-play decision making and fatigue in elite women’s water polo: A novel recurrent events approach
doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Beyond the trained eye: An objective method to predict game sense in team sports

Talent identification in sports requires a prediction of how athletes will perform in the future based on a sample of their behaviors. Perceptual cognitive-skills or ‘game sense’ in sports jargon i...

doi.org

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Apr 24

📰4 new publications this week:

🤽The Co-Creation of Representative Training Designs in Elite Water Polo Using a Scientist-Practitioner Approach
doi.org/10.1080/2152...

The Co-Creation of Representative Training Designs in Elite Water Polo Using a Scientist-Practitioner Approach

This article describes an evidence-informed, collaborative process to bridge the gap between science and practice and tailor representative training designs to a national water polo team. Team gaps...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: Surveillance of athlete mental health symptoms and disorders: ReFORM synthesis of the International Olympic Committee Statement

doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Mar 19

Behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of soccer heading training in virtual reality: A longitudinal fMRI case study
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Behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of soccer heading training in virtual reality: A longitudinal fMRI case study

Virtual reality (VR) technology has received considerable attention over the last few years, with applications in many performance domains including t…

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Mar 12

"Using social media on smartphones for 30 min causes mental fatigue.

Attack efficiency is impaired after three weeks of using social networks on smartphones before training sessions.

Technical committees must manage the time spent using social media on athletes' smartphones before training"

Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Mar 12

To athletes: Stop using your cellphone before training sessions and competitions!!

Effect of Daily Social Media Use on Smartphones Before Training on Attack Efficiency and Repeated Vertical Jump Ability in Young Male Volleyball Players: A Randomized and Crossover Trial
doi.org/10.1002/ejsc...

Effect of Daily Social Media Use on Smartphones Before Training on Attack Efficiency and Repeated Vertical Jump Ability in Young Male Volleyball Players: A Randomized and Crossover Trial

This investigation observed the repeated effect of using social media on smartphones immediately before training sessions on attack efficiency (AE) and repeat-vertical jumping ability (RVJA) in young....

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Mar 12

Advancements in virtual reality for performance enhancement in combat sports: a mini-review and perspective doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Frontiers | Advancements in virtual reality for performance enhancement in combat sports: a mini-review and perspective

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Mar 12

The impact of working memory capacity on intuitive decision-making in sport www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The impact of working memory capacity on intuitive decision-making in sport

The basic assumption of dual-process theory is that intuitive decision-making (DM) does not require cognitive resources such as working memory capacity (WMC). However, recent evidence from reasonin...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Mar 12

What is and what is not 360° video: conceptual definitions for the research field
doi.org/10.3389/fedu...

Frontiers | What is and what is not 360° video: conceptual definitions for the research field

Over the previous years, immersive technologies have been increasingly used in different fields (Suh & Prophet, 2018;Tang et al., 2022). Furthermore, Ran...

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Feb 27

The Value of Practicing the “Wrong” Way: Skill Development and Affordance Perception Through Broad Exploration of the Solution Space doi.org/10.1123/jmld...

The Value of Practicing the “Wrong” Way: Skill Development and Affordance Perception Through Broad Exploration of the Solution Space

Traditionally, in sports, we spend the majority of practice time trying to do the “right” things; that is, producing the desired performance outcomes (e.g., hitting a golf shot down the middle of the ...

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Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadien des Commotions @ccn-rcc.bsky.social · Feb 22

The Canadian Concussion Network-Réseau Canadien des Commotions is free to join: ccn-rcc.ca/en/membershi...

Our network of over 450 members includes researchers, trainees, clinicians, knowledge translation professionals, community organizations, people with lived experience, and more!

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Feb 22

Reliability and validity of a self-developed virtual reality-based test battery for assessing motor skills in sports performance
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reliability and validity of a self-developed virtual reality-based test battery for assessing motor skills in sports performance - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Reliability and validity of a self-developed virtual reality-based test battery for assessing motor skills in sports performance

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Feb 20

The possible application of virtual reality for managing anxiety in athletes
doi.org/10.3389/fspo...

Frontiers | The possible application of virtual reality for managing anxiety in athletes

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Thomas Romeas - PhD @thomasromeas.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚨🆕📝New scientific publication: ReFORM synthesis of the 6th International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport

doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...

Partners: ReFORM - Réseau Francophone Olympique de la Recherche en Médecine du sport
INS Québec - Institut national du sport du Québec

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