Objective: To determine if submaximal contractions used in contract-relax proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (CRPNF) stretching of the hamstrings yield comparable gains in hamstring flexibility ...

Objective Our aim was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the clinical presentation of ankle syndesmosis injury and four common clinical diagnostic tests. Design Cross-sectional diagnostic ...

3 Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Background Preprofessional dancers partake in rigorous training and have high injury prevalence. Attempts to identify risk ...

9 Amsterdam Centre for Evidence Based Sports Medicine (ACES), Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr M Winters, Department of Rehabilitation, Nursing Science & Sports ...

Objectives: To investigate the physiological characteristics of subelite junior and senior rugby league players and establish performance standards for these athletes. Methods: A total of 159 junior ...

Neurologist and Sports Physician Centre for Sports Medicine Research and Education and the Brain Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 ...

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Need to put the health effects of standing in the research spotlight. For future research to produce clinically relevant answers, we propose the following priority hypotheses on standing being health ...

The impact of mental health symptoms and disorders in elite athletes is increasingly recognised. This led the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to produce a consensus statement1 and establish a ...

1 Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians, Seattle, Washington, USA and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 2 Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians and ...

2 Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3 British Journal of Sports Medicine, Centre for Sports Medicine Research and ...

Objective Reaction time is commonly impaired following concussion, but recent work indicates current clinical reaction time measures lack sport-related applicability. We aimed to determine the ...