Objective Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), gestational hypertension (GH) and pre-eclampsia (PE) are associated with short and long-term health issues for mother and child; prevention of these ...

1 MSK CATS, Salford Royal Foundation Trust, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK Correspondence to Paul A Barratt, Physiotherapy Department, Salford Royal Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford, Greater Manchester ...

Background Information on the prevalence of mental health problems of elite athletes is inconclusive, most probably due to methodological limitations, such as low response rates, heterogeneous samples ...

1 Centre for Academic Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 2 Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, School for Policy Studies, ...

The landscape of academic publishing in sports and exercise medicine has changed substantially over the past two decades. In ...

Objectives To identify the relationship between field performance in a hot environment and individual heat acclimatisation responses in football players. Methods Nineteen semiprofessional football ...

The WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease ...

3 Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Jill L Cook, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, ...

Objective To evaluate the time to return to playing following acute Achilles tendon rupture (ATR) and surgical repair in professional male football (soccer) players. Methods Professional male football ...

Background: The protection of athletes’ health by preventing injuries is an important task for international sports federations. Standardised injury surveillance provides not only important ...

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) recent announcement of the Olympic Esports Games signals a new era of ...