Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to: M M Gardner, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of ...

Correspondence to: Mr T Leary, Division of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom. Background—There is a dearth of evidenced based research ...

Objective: To ascertain the epidemiology of ankle injuries in elite youth football. Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected injury data from English Football Association (FA) ...

Correspondence to Anthony Schache, Senior Research Fellow, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3010; anthonys{at}unimelb.edu.au Objective: Groin pain ...

Correspondence to: Professor van Mechelen VU University Medical Centre, Department of Social Medicine and EMGO Institute, Van der Boechorststraat 7, NL-1081 BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands; ...

Objectives: To determine if boxing exposure has changed over time and hence if current professional boxers are at the same risk of developing chronic traumatic brain injury (CTBI) as historical ...

Background Heterogeneous taxonomy of groin injuries in athletes adds confusion to this complicated area. Aim The ‘Doha agreement meeting on terminology and definitions in groin pain in athletes’ was ...

OBJECTIVE: To study effects of meditation on the shooting performance. METHODS: 25 elite shooters were investigated in an independent groups design. The results in standardised test shootings indoors ...

Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Ullevål Stadion, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Dr Thor Einar Andersen Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, ...

1 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, UK 2 Sports Institute of Northern Ireland, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, UK ...

Background Ultrasound (US) imaging is commonly used to visualise tendon structure. It is not clear whether the presence of structural abnormalities in asymptomatic tendons predicts the development of ...

Athletic performance tests the limits of the human body and mind. Awe-inspiring achievements is what makes sports so fascinating. It is well appreciated however that top-level sports may sometimes ...