1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium 2 Centre of Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium 3 Department of Physical ...

Objectives: Inter-individual variations in sea level performance after altitude training have been attributed, at least in part, to an inter-individual variability in hypoxia induced erythropoiesis.

1 NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia 2 Physical ...

Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr Klentrou Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada ...

Background Occupational and leisure-time physical activity are considered to provide similar health benefits. The authors tested this hypothesis. Methods A representative sample of Danish employees ...

Objective: The biomechanics of the head for punches to the jaw and the risk of head injury from translational and rotational acceleration were studied. Methods: Seven Olympic boxers from five weight ...

2 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic college of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Background The use of diagnostic and interventional ...

Objective: To investigate whether a 6-month neuromuscular warm-up programme could improve muscle power, balance, speed and agility. Design: Cluster randomised controlled study. Setting: 27 top level ...

1 National Center for Fetal Medicine, Trondheim University Hospital (St Olav's Hospital), Trondheim, Norway 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Norwegian University of ...

Objective To study the injury characteristics in professional football and to follow the variation of injury incidence during a match, during a season and over consecutive seasons. Design Prospective ...

1 Department of Taekwondo, Keimyung University, Daegu, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Physical Education, Dong-A University, Busan, Republic of Korea 3 Department of Physical Education, Yonsei ...

Hamstring injuries (HSIs) are the most common athletic injury in running and pivoting sports, but despite large amounts of research, injury rates have not declined in the last 2 decades. HSI often ...