Objective Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion.

Objective Our aim was to define the priorities for future research in safeguarding athletes from interpersonal violence (IV) ...

Objectives A paucity of studies assesses the intersection of physical health (injury and illness), mental health and ...

Background The loads to which professional rugby players are subjected has been identified as a concern by coaches, players and administrators. In November 2014, World Rugby commissioned an expert ...

2 Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA Correspondence to Ms Holly Jacinda Silvers, Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research ...

Over the past two decades, intermittent hypoxic training (IHT), that is, a method where athletes live at or near sea level but train under hypoxic conditions, has gained unprecedented popularity. By ...

Objectives: To present a grading system of the protection offered by various types of mouthguard, together with an indication of associated risks, in order to make athletes aware of the consequences ...

2 Department of Family Practice (Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre) and School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3 Department of Physiotherapy, LaTrobe University ...

Background Movement quality has been identified as an important physical quality within the youth athlete. However, evidence around effects of growth/maturation on movement quality as a risk factor ...

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Correspondence to Dr Claude Bouchard, Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA; claude.bouchard{at}pbrc.edu There is evidence from human twin ...