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Rib stress injuries in the 2012–2016 (Rio) Olympiad: a cohort study of 151 Australian Rowing Team athletes for 88 773 athlete days
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 ...
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Progressing rehabilitation after injury: consider the ‘control-chaos continuum’
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Amount and intensity of daily total physical activity, step count and risk of incident cancer in the UK Biobank
Objectives To investigate associations between daily physical activity, activity intensity and step counts with incident cancer risk. Methods Prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants who wore ...
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A biomechanical basis for tears of the human acetabular labrum
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 ...
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Sickle cell trait associated with a RR of death of 37 times in national collegiate athletic association football athletes: a database with 2 million athlete-years as the ...
3 Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, USA Correspondence to Kimberly G Harmon, Departments of Family Medicine and Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics, 4060 East Stevens ...
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Sexual violence in sport: American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Position Statement
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 ...
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Sports injuries and illnesses at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games: a prospective study of 1783 athletes from 79 countries
Objective To describe the injury and illness characteristics among participating athletes during the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games (YOG 2020), 9–22 January 2020. Methods The daily number of ...
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#REDS (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport): time for a revolution in sports culture and systems to improve athlete health and performance
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Strength training as superior, dose-dependent and safe prevention of acute and overuse sports injuries: a systematic review, qualitative analysis and meta-analysis
Objective This review aims to analyse strength training-based sports injury prevention randomised controlled trials (RCT) and present best evidence recommendations for athletes and future research. A ...
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Return-to-play and performance after operative treatment of Achilles tendon rupture in elite male athletes: a scoping review
Correspondence to Dr Marc R Safran, Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Redwood City, California, USA; msafran{at}stanford.edu Objective To examine the current ...
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Socioeconomic deprivation and racialised disparities in competitive athletes with sudden cardiac arrest from the USA
Correspondence to Professor Jonathan A Drezner, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; jdrezner{at}uw.edu Objective To explore the association of ...
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The never-ending story of physical activity and health
The link between health and physical activity has been enshrined in medical lore since ancient times. Over 2000 years ago, practitioners in India, China, Greece and the Roman Empire espoused the ...