Dear Editor, We recently reviewed the article " Soft-tissue Injuries Simply Need PEACE and LOVE" in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. (1) This study presented preliminary evidence suggesting ...

Objective: To describe the physiological responses to tournament tennis in relation to prevailing environmental conditions, match notation, and skills that underpin performance. Design: 14 male ...

Objectives To (1) estimate the proportion of patients seeking care for low back pain (LBP) who are imaged and (2) explore trends in the proportion of patients who received diagnostic imaging over time ...

Tendons are designed to take tensile load, but excessive load can cause overuse tendinopathy. Overuse tendinopathy results in extensive changes to the cells and extracellular matrix, resulting in ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr David McDuff, Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore MD 21201, USA; dmcduff52{at}gmail.com Background Substances from various classes may be used for ...

1 Division of Sports Medicine and Non-Operative Orthopaedics, Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and ...

The case reported is of a 46 year old male who presented with a history of acute on chronic knee pain. The clinical features and investigations suggested a tear of the quadriceps tendon, with ...

Objective: To investigate whether underlying medical conditions contribute to the fatigue and high incidence of infections that can occur during repeated intense training. Method: Forty one ...

School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Neville Owen, Cancer Prevention Research Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston ...

Objective In this study, the injury incidence and association with type and volume of training in international rowers were described. Design A prospective cohort design was used over a 12-month ...

Background: Exercise is an important component of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic lung disease. Objective: To explore the role of physical activity in maintaining cardiac and ...