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Changes in performance, skinfold thicknesses, and fat patterning after three years of intense athletic conditioning in high level runners

Objectives: To determine if the changes in specific skinfold sites induced by intense athletic conditioning over a three year period were associated with changes in running performance in high level ...
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The association football medical research programme: an audit of injuries in professional football

3 The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, Scotland, UK Objectives—To undertake a prospective epidemiological study of the ...
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Infographic. Pain or injury? Why differentiation matters in exercise and sports medicine

Correspondence to Dr Morten Hoegh, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark; msh{at}hst.aau.dk If you wish to reuse any ...
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Injury history as a risk factor for incident injury in youth soccer

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Objectives: To determine if athletes with a ...
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Exercise therapy for the conservative management of full thickness tears of the rotator cuff: a systematic review

1 Consultant Physiotherapist, South Devon NHS Healthcare Trust, Torbay Hospital, Torquay, UK 2 Consultant Physiotherapist, St George’s NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK; Visiting Reader, St George’s ...
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Return to play criteria after hamstring muscle injury in professional football: a Delphi consensus study

Background Hamstring muscle injury (HMI) is the most common injury in professional football and has a high re-injury rate. Despite this, there are no validated criteria to support return to play (RTP) ...
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“The pain isn’t the hardest challenge… it’s the frustration at how much it affects my day-to-day life, my mental health and my ability to train”: a qualitative ...

Objective Low back pain (LBP) impacts the performance and quality of life of elite athletes during and beyond their career. Our aim was to explore the lived experiences of elite athletes with ...
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The genetic basis for elite running performance

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence to Dr Ross ...
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Injury risks associated with tackling in rugby union

Objective To examine factors associated with tackles in rugby union and to assess their impact on the risk of injury. Design Two-season (2003/2004 and 2005/2006) prospective cohort design with video ...
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Acute hamstring injuries in Swedish elite sprinters and jumpers: a prospective randomised controlled clinical trial comparing two rehabilitation protocols

1 The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden 2 The Section of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, ...
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Long term outcomes of inversion ankle injuries

Correspondence to: Associate Professor Barnsley Department of Rheumatology, Concord Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia; les.barnsleyemail.cs.nsw.gov.au Background: Ankle sprains are ...