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A strategy to reduce illicit drug use is effective in elite Australian football

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, ...
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Interventions to increase adherence to therapeutic exercise in older adults with low back pain and/or hip/knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To evaluate whether interventions aimed at increasing adherence to therapeutic exercise increase adherence greater than a contextually equivalent control among older adults with chronic low ...
British Journal of Sports Medicine

Supporting journal selection: an open-source academic journal verification tool for researchers in sports and exercise medicine

The landscape of academic publishing in sports and exercise medicine has changed substantially over the past two decades. In ...
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Injuries affect team performance negatively in professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study

3 Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Correspondence to Martin Hägglund, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Medical ...
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Eighty-two per cent of male professional football (soccer) players return to play at the previous level two seasons after Achilles tendon rupture treated with surgical repair

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 ...
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Injury surveillance in multi-sport events: the International Olympic Committee approach

Background: The protection of athletes’ health by preventing injuries is an important task for international sports federations. Standardised injury surveillance provides not only important ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests of the hip: a systematic review with meta-analysis

2 Physical Therapy, High Point University, High Point, North Carolina, USA 3 Physical Therapy, Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio, USA Correspondence to Michael P Reiman, Duke University School of ...
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How strong is the evidence that conservative treatment reduces pain and improves function in individuals with patellar tendinopathy? A systematic review of randomised ...

Objective To determine the effectiveness of conservative treatment (CT) on pain and function in patients with patellar tendinopathy (PT) compared with minimal intervention (MI) or other invasive ...
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A prospective longitudinal study to assess psychological changes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery

Musculoskeletal Research Centre and School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Objective: To determine whether the psychological characteristics of athletes who have undergone ...
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Progressing rehabilitation after injury: consider the ‘control-chaos continuum’

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Management of the sprained ankle

Correspondence to: Dr van Dijk, Orthopaedic Research Centre, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands; M.Lammerts{at}amc.uva.nl Inversion injuries of the ...