Background Little information exists on the illness and injury patterns of athletes preparing for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Among the possible explanations for the current lack of knowledge ...

3 School of Sport, Health, and Social Sciences, Southampton Solent University, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dale Forsdyke, Applied Human Sciences Department, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, ...

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, ...

Competitive tennis play requires a combination of the major physiological variables; however, the specifics of these variables have yet to be determined appropriately. General strength and flexibility ...

3 Institute of Regional Health Services Research and Center for Research in Childhood Health, IOB, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Correspondence to Merete Moller, Aarhus University, ...

Background A number of recent systematic reviews have resulted in changes in international recommendations for children's participation in physical activity (PA) for health. The World Health Authority ...

Objectives To describe age group patterns for injury incidence, severity and burden in elite male youth football. Methods Prospective cohort study capturing data on individual exposure and time-loss ...

Correspondence to Dr Ivan Lin, WA Centre for Rural Health, University of Western Australia, Geraldton, WA 6531, Australia; ivan.lin{at}uwa.edu.au We identified 11 common recommendations to deliver ...

1 Department of Pathology and Surgery, Physiotherapy Area, University Miguel Hernandez, Sant Joan, Alicante, Spain 2 Department of Basic Psychology and Methodology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain ...

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine of the Sports Science Orthopaedic Clinic, Cape Town, South Africa Professor M Collins, UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and ...

Centre for Sports Training and Rehabilitation, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Correspondence to Dr E Yeung, Centre for Sports ...

Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7489 Trondheim, Norway Correspondence to: Dr Hoff, Department of Physiology and Biomedical ...