1 Director of Student Health and Sports Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA 2 Professor and Pomerene chair, Department of Family Medicine ...

Although the overall injury rate in volleyball and beach volleyball is relatively low compared with other team sports, injuries do occur in a discipline specific pattern. Epidemiological research has ...

Background—Palpation is an important clinical test for jumper's knee. Methods—In 326 junior symptomatic and asymptomatic athletes' tendons, palpation was performed by a single examiner before ...

Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, University of Tehran (Medical Sciences), Tehran, Iran Correspondence to Dr Hossein Bagheri, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of ...

Objective: To identify preoperative predictive factors for knee function two years after reconstructive surgery of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The main hypothesis was that preoperative ...

I want to monitor my athlete but where do I start? Given the relationships among athlete workloads, injury1 and performance,2 athlete monitoring has become critical in the high-performance sporting ...

Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, 10098 Berlin, Germany Dr Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, MSc, Institute for Social Medicine, ...

Objectives—To assess the available evidence for preventive strategies for lower limb soft tissue injuries caused by running. Methods—An electronic database search was conducted using The Cochrane ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Pieter K. Bos, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box ...

Correspondence to Dr Paddy C Dempsey, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK; Paddy.Dempsey{at}baker.edu.au ...

By 2050, there will be two billion people in the world aged over 60. Such population ageing will inevitably lead to increases in the prevalence of chronic diseases and healthcare burdens. In the UK ...

1 University Center for Sport, Exercise and Health, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Center for Sports Medicine, University Medical Center ...