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Exercise is medicine and physicians need to prescribe it!

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International normative 20 m shuttle run values from 1 142 026 children and youth representing 50 countries

2 Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), School of Health Sciences & Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, ...
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Exercise improves quality of life in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Correspondence to Arnaud JPE Vincent, Department of Neurosurgery, Erasmus MC, 's-Gravendijkwal 230, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands a.vincent{at}erasmusmc.nl Purpose Exercise may be associated with ...
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Would they dope? Revisiting the Goldman dilemma

Background/aim Discussions of doping often report Goldman's sensational results that half of the elite athletes asked would take a drug that guaranteed sporting success which would also result in ...
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Combined education and patient-led goal setting intervention reduced chronic low back pain disability and intensity at 12 months: a randomised controlled trial

Background One model of care that has not been tested for chronic low back pain (LBP) is patient-led goal setting. We aimed to compare the clinical effectiveness and healthcare use of a patient-led ...
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Force awakens: a new hope for athletic shoulder strength testing

‘Lucas [real identity hidden] came through the training session yesterday with no issues. It is now ten weeks since his posterior shoulder repair (non-dominant) and he is pushing to play this Saturday ...
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Risk factors for head injury events in professional rugby union: a video analysis of 464 head injury events to inform proposed injury prevention strategies

Objectives The tackle is responsible for the majority of head injuries during rugby union. In order to address head injury risk, risk factors during the tackle must first be identified. This study ...
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Prevention strategies and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussions and head impacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objectives To evaluate prevention strategies, their unintended consequences and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussion (SRC) and/or head impact risk. Design This systematic review and ...
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The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center questionnaire on health problems: a new approach to prospective monitoring of illness and injury in elite athletes

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 ...
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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 ...
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2016 consensus statement of the International Ankle Consortium: prevalence, impact and long-term consequences of lateral ankle sprains

The Executive Committee of the International Ankle Consortium presents this 2016 position paper with recommendations for information implementation and continued research based on the paradigm that ...
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The psychological impact of cardiovascular screening: the athlete's perspective

1 Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA 2 Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 3 Division of Cardiology, ...