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 ...

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 ...

3 Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Center Haaglanden, Leidschendam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr M H Moen, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Department, University Medical Center ...

1 Division of Sports Medicine and Non-Operative Orthopaedics, Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and ...

Sport Medicine Centre, Roger Jackson Centre for Health and Wellness Research, Faculty of Kinesiology and Community Health Sciences and Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, ...

Background At present, there is no validated patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for patients with medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS). Aim Our aim was to select and validate previously generated ...

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 ...

Several studies have suggested that a ‘physical activity (PA) paradox’ may exist—that is, the well documented beneficial health effects of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) are not found for ...

Objective To investigate the cost-effectiveness of exercise therapy in the treatment of patients with non-specific neck pain and low back pain. Design Systematic review of economic evaluations. Data ...

Background Ultrasound (US) imaging is commonly used to visualise tendon structure. It is not clear whether the presence of structural abnormalities in asymptomatic tendons predicts the development of ...

3 Centre for Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium Correspondence to: Renaat M Philippaerts Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Movement and ...