As I step down as Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine (BOSEM), I find myself reflecting not only on the ...

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic and progressive cardiovascular condition associated with significant morbidity, mortality and ...

Objectives This review aimed to provide a pooled estimate of injury incidence and epidemiology in women’s ice hockey.Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted by searching PubMed ...

Insufficient physical activity (PA) among children has become a major global public health concern. The family environment ...

Exertional rhabdomyolysis is characterised by muscle breakdown associated with strenuous exercise or normal exercise under extreme circumstances. Key features are severe muscle pain and sudden ...

Background Achilles tendon rupture (ATR), while rare in football, is a severe career-threatening injury associated with long-layoff times. To date, no study has documented ATR’s mechanism in ...

Even though injuries are common in elite youth sports, rehabilitation experiences are limited explored in young athletes. This study explored rehabilitation experiences in athletes with a previous ...

Objectives The tackle carries the highest risk of concussion in women’s rugby union. To reduce concussion risk, a lowered maximum tackle height (LTH) law, lowering the maximum legal tackle height from ...

Introduction There is strong evidence that exercise prevents falls in community-dwelling older people. This review summarises trial and participant characteristics, intervention contents and study ...

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine accepts submissions of a range of article types, including original research, reviews and consensus statements. The Author Information section provides specific ...

Objective The positive effect of an audience on performance is anecdotally well known, but the impact of such social facilitation to both performance and the motivation to exercise have not been ...

Background Anxiety disorders are persistent, functionally impairing conditions with high societal burden. In contrast, anxiety symptoms are elevated anxiety meeting scale thresholds (not formal ...