Background During top-level international Athletics championships, injury risk was about 100 injuries per 1000 athletes for outdoor championships, and about 63 injuries per 1000 athletes for indoors ...

Background Physical examination tests for hip dysfunction and injury of the strongest diagnostic accuracy were identified in a recent systematic review with meta-analysis in BJSM . These tests are ...

Outcome The expert panel for the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport considered that adopting the ACRM diagnostic criteria was an aspirational goal. However, only 16/28 (57.1%) of the ...

The control-chaos continuum Using retrospective player chronic running loads (GPS) in conjunction with estimated tissue healing times, we propose a five-phase framework. We give the example of a ...

Objective —To study the incidence of the most commonly sustained injuries in Argentine rugby and analyse them according to type, position and age of the players, and phase and time of play. Methods —A ...

Background Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has been used in the treatment of soft tissue and bone-related musculoskeletal disorders for over 20 years. In an overview of this treatment modality ...

This document presents the recommendations developed by the IOC Medical and Scientific Commission and several international federations (IF) on the protection of athletes competing in the heat. It is ...

Background To date, only one study reported the impact attenuation of protective taekwondo headgear. Although Olympic boxing has discontinued the use of headgear, similarities in designs are thought ...

Objectives To investigate the prevalence and burden of overuse injuries in children’s football as well as player characteristics and their association with overuse injury risk. Methods This ...

Objectives: To provide examples of thermoregulatory responses during competitive singles tennis and comparisons with continuous, steady-state running. Methods: Typical examples of body core (rectal) ...

Objectives The study aimed to determine the risk of time-loss injuries in international fencing and to characterise their type, location, severity and mechanism. Variations in risk associated with sex ...

Objectives Seventeen male participants (mean (SD) (range): age 33.5 (6.5) years (46–26 years), body mass 80 (9.2) kg (100–63 kg), height 1.81 (0.06) m (1.93– 1.70 m)) ran a marathon to investigate the ...