Background Little information exists on the illness and injury patterns of athletes preparing for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Among the possible explanations for the current lack of knowledge ...

Background The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3–6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date ...

Competitive tennis play requires a combination of the major physiological variables; however, the specifics of these variables have yet to be determined appropriately. General strength and flexibility ...

3 Centre for Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium Correspondence to: Renaat M Philippaerts Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Movement and ...

1 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 3 Medical Research ...

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Background Identification of high-risk sports, including their most common and severe injuries and illnesses, will facilitate the identification of sports and athletes at risk at an early stage. Aim ...

Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Mile End Hospital, London, UK Injuries can counter the beneficial effects of sports participation at a ...

4 Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Professor Andrew P Hills, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith ...

Objective To describe the incidence of injuries and illnesses sustained during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games from 23 July to 8 August 2021. Methods We recorded the daily number of athlete injuries ...

Correspondence to Dr Sylvia Czuppon, Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Ave, Campus Box 8502, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA; czuppons{at}wustl.edu ...

This editorial is a call for action to make physical activity and sedentary behaviour messages inclusive. It focuses on disability. Numerous definitions of disability and ways of identifying as ...