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Spondylolysis: a critical review

1 Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians, Seattle, Washington, USA and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 2 Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians and ...
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related mental disorders in elite athletes: a narrative review

Correspondence to Ms Cindy Miller Aron, Department of Psychiatry, Samaritan Health Services, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA; cind152001{at}gmail.com This narrative review examines post-traumatic stress ...
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Tai chi: physiological characteristics and beneficial effects on health

1 Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr Li, ...
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Applied physiology of tennis performance

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 ...
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Efficacy and safety of comfrey root extract ointment in the treatment of acute upper or lower back pain: results of a double-blind, randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre ...

Objective The objective was to show the superiority of comfrey root extract ointment to placebo ointment in patients with acute upper or lower back pain. Design The study was conducted as a ...
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Does effectiveness of exercise therapy and mobilisation techniques offer guidance for the treatment of lateral and medial epicondylitis? A systematic review

1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Physical Therapy, Erasmus MC—University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC—University Medical ...
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Urine nandrolone metabolites: false positive doping test?

MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Newlands, South Africa Correspondence to ...
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Foot pronation is not associated with increased injury risk in novice runners wearing a neutral shoe: a 1-year prospective cohort study

4 Section of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 5 Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 6 Department of ...
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Death by effectiveness: exercise as medicine caught in the efficacy trap!

Correspondence to Dr Chris Beedie, Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales SY23 3UX, UK; chb44{at}aber.ac.uk Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) has had a good ...
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Knee kinematics and joint moments during gait following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

1 Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 Melbourne School of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3 School ...
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Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle ...

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Injury history as a risk factor for incident injury in youth soccer

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Objectives: To determine if athletes with a ...