Objectives In youth sports, musculoskeletal pain is often studied from the standpoint of sports injuries, but little is known about pain conditions in which athletes still participate. The aim was to ...

Collecting an account of practitioners’ lived experiences of on-pitch concussion management in football provides real-world ...

Short set configurations attenuate cardiovascular responses, reduce perceived exertion and allow for greater mechanical ...

Time-to-event is a powerful statistical approach increasingly used in sports science and medicine to examine time-to-event outcomes such as time to sports injury occurrence, career duration and ...

Approximately 1.7 billion people worldwide live with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, 1 contributing to a high socioeconomic burden exceeding €250 billion in Europe2 and US$180 billion in the USA.3 Beyond ...

Decision-making for the optimal management of traumatic knee injuries can be challenging. Clinical trials reveal only small ...

Objectives Early protective motion (EPM) treatment, using a rigid functional knee brace for acute anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, has been reported to restore ACL function. This study aimed ...

Objective Handgrip strength (HGS) is a simple, non-invasive measure associated with disability, frailty and disease activity ...

Background The prevalence of obesity has tripled over the past 35 years. Although caloric restriction reduces body fat, lean tissue is also lost. Resistance exercise may mitigate these effects. This ...

Objectives To evaluate the short-term impact of long-distance running on knee joints using MRI. Methods 82 healthy adults participating in their first marathon underwent 3T (Tesla) MRI of both knees 6 ...