2 The Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention, Ballarat Federation University, Victoria, Australia Tendinopathy can be resistant to treatment and often recurs, implying ...

2 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic college of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Background The use of diagnostic and interventional ...

Correspondence to Dr Duncan E Meuffels, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GD, The Netherlands; d.meuffels{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective To assess whether initial ...

Objective: To determine whether quantified, auditable records of functional rehabilitation can be generated using subjective assessments of players’ performance in fitness tests routinely used in ...

Objective: To describe the epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League (AFL) over four seasons. Methods: An injury was defined as “any physical or medical condition that caused a player ...

Correspondence to Dr Mary Jane De Souza, Women's Health and Exercise Laboratory, 104 Noll Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; mjd34{at ...

Background Recent investigation of human tissue and cells from positional tendons such as the rotator cuff has clarified the importance of inflammation in the development and progression of tendon ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, ...

Objective The distribution of injuries affecting professional golfers is yet to be fully understood. We performed a systematic review of the clinical literature to establish the epidemiology of ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard Weiler, Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University ...

Purpose This systematic review was conducted to identify the impact of upper body warm-up on performance and injury prevention outcomes. Methods Web of Science, MEDLINE, SPORTDiscus, PsycINFO and ...