Objectives This study aimed to estimate the combined effects of long-term fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure and ...

Contact in elite football can result in severe injury such as traumatic fracture. Limited information exists regarding the rehabilitation and return to sport (RTS) of these injuries especially in ...

Background Bone stress injury (BSI) is a common overuse injury in female athletes that can occur in a variety of bones, including both proximal (pelvis, sacrum, femoral neck) or distal (tibia, fibula, ...

Background/aim Competitive alpine skiing is known to be associated with a high risk of traumatic knee injuries. However, little is known about the exact prevalence of knee overuse injuries and their ...

Background Poor oral health of elite athletes is common and is associated with negative performance impacts. There is a need for oral health promotion strategies that are effective within the elite ...

What this study adds A low and/or increasing average TL volume during 30 days may be associated with injury risk in male elite youth football players. The average volume of intense accelerations over ...

Objective To analyse the circumstances of fatal and non-fatal mountain hiking accidents caused by falls.Methods The study was designed as a retrospective analysis. Mountain hiking accidents caused by ...

Background/aim Significant biological differences in platelet-rich plasma (PRP) preparations have been highlighted and could explain the large variability in the clinical benefit of PRP reported in ...

Background Neck and low back pain (LBP) are common in office workers. Exercise trials to reduce neck and LBP conducted in sport sector are lacking. We investigated the effectiveness of the ...

Objective The aim of the study was to evaluate the reported measurement capabilities and predictive validity of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) for injury.Methods This was a prospective ...

Objectives Lumbar disc disease is a known cause of back pain. Increasingly it is thought that cam morphology of the hip may have a causal role in development of lumbar disc disease. The aim of this ...

Introduction As the number of female athletes competing rises globally, training methodologies should reflect sex differences across critical metrics of adaptation to training. Surrogate markers of ...