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The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Background Physical activity is important in both prevention and treatment of many common diseases, but sports injuries can pose serious problems. Objective To determine whether physical activity ...
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“The pain isn’t the hardest challenge… it’s the frustration at how much it affects my day-to-day life, my mental health and my ability to train”: a qualitative ...

Objective Low back pain (LBP) impacts the performance and quality of life of elite athletes during and beyond their career. Our aim was to explore the lived experiences of elite athletes with ...
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Exercise collapse associated with sickle cell trait: from consensus to confusion

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Eccentric decline squat protocol offers superior results at 12 months compared with traditional eccentric protocol for patellar tendinopathy in volleyball players

1 Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, and Australian Institute of Sport, Bruce, ACT, Australia 2 Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University ...
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There is more to pain than tissue damage: eight principles to guide care of acute non-traumatic pain in sport

Musculoskeletal pain in athletes is common, but not always associated with injury (ie, tissue damage).1 Damage occurs when load exceeds tissue tolerance, such as ligament tear or a fracture. However, ...
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Anterior cruciate ligament injury: towards a gendered environmental approach

Background The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3–6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date ...
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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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High training workloads alone do not cause sports injuries: how you get there is the real issue

1 School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 Centre for ...
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The genetic basis for elite running performance

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence to Dr Ross ...
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The association of environmental heat stress with performance: analysis of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil

4 Aspetar—Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar 5 Athlete Health and Performance Research Centre, Aspetar—Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar ...
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Comparison of the incidence, nature and cause of injuries sustained on grass and new generation artificial turf by male and female football players. Part 1: match injuries

Objective: To compare the incidence, nature, severity and cause of match injuries sustained on grass and new generation artificial turf by male and female footballers. Methods: The National Collegiate ...
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The Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire: a new tool for assessing and managing sleep in elite athletes

Background/aim The purpose of this study was to develop a subjective, self-report, sleep-screening questionnaire for elite athletes. This paper describes the development of the Athlete Sleep Screening ...