Background A few small studies have reported on the mechanisms of ACL injury in professional male football. Aim To describe the mechanisms, situational patterns and biomechanics (kinematics) of ACL ...

Aim To report the epidemiology of injury and illness in elite rowers over eight seasons (two Olympiads). Methods All athletes selected to the Australian Rowing Team between 2009 and 2016 were ...

Aim To describe the demographics, frequency, location, imaging modality and clinician-identified factors of rib stress injury in a cohort of elite rowers over the Rio Olympiad (2012–2016). Methods ...

Objective We determined if postoperative physical activity prevents or delays cancer recurrence in patients with stage III colon cancer. Methods This cohort study nested within a randomised trial ...

Centre for Human Performance, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court, Epsom, Surrey, UK Correspondence to Jakob Kristensen, Centre for Human ...

2 Department of Epidemiology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Mulhouse Building, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Correspondence to: Professor MacAuley, Department of Epidemiology, The Queen's ...

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) convened a group of experts to develop a Position Statement addressing the problem of sexual violence in sport. The AMSSM Sexual Violence in ...

Coding in sports medicine generally uses sports-specific coding systems rather than the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), because of superior applicability to the profile of injury and ...

Objective: Acetabular labral tears predominantly affect young patients and are a source of hip pain in the athlete. Four causes of the initiation of labral tears have been proposed; trauma, hypolaxity ...

1 School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 2 Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, School of Chiropractic and Sports Science, ...

Objectives Headgear use is a controversial issue in girls’ lacrosse. We compared concussion rates among high school lacrosse players in an American state with a headgear mandate (HM) to states without ...

5 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Providencia, Chile 6 Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Escuela de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, ...