Objective To determine if the comparison of acute and chronic workload is associated with increased injury risk in elite cricket fast bowlers. Methods Data were collected from 28 fast bowlers who ...

Objective To investigate the heading demands of elite footballers during training sessions using instrumented mouthguards (iMGs). Methods Methods followed the Consensus Head Acceleration Measure ...

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of cryotherapy on pain intensity, range of motion (ROM), swelling and function in the postoperative care of musculoskeletal disorders. Design Systematic ...

Muscle injuries are among the most prevalent musculoskeletal conditions in athletes, contributing significantly to morbidity and time lost from competition. The use of ultrasound (US) is advantageous ...

Correspondence to Dr Juliana S Oliveira, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, PO Box M201 Missenden Rd, New South Wales 2050, Australia; ...

1 Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Health Sciences, The University of York, York, UK 3 ...

Correspondence to Dr Gustaaf Reurink, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Room Hs-104, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; g.reurink{at}erasmusmc.nl Background Previous ...

The Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA Correspondence to Dr Haemi Choi, The Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center, 2050 Kenny Road, Suite 3100, Columbus, OH 43221 ...

Correspondence to Dr Nora Shields, School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; n.shields{at}latrobe.edu.au Aim The aim of this systematic review was to investigate ...

1 The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden 2 The Section of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, ...

Objective: To compare injury risk in elite football played on artificial turf compared with natural grass. Design: Prospective two-cohort study. Setting: Male European elite football leagues.

3 The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, Scotland, UK Objectives—To undertake a prospective epidemiological study of the ...