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The athlete’s sleep paradox prompts us to reconsider the dose-response relationship of physical activity and sleep

Everyone needs good quality sleep. Good sleep is essential for health, while poor sleep increases morbidity and mortality risk.1 Contributors All authors contributed to the conception of this ...
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Can oestrogen influence skeletal muscle damage, inflammation, and repair?

Oestrogen may affect muscle damage and inflammation, but the physiological significance of this, particularly potential effects on muscle repair and recovery in humans, and the mechanisms of its ...
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Development and validation of a new method for the registration of overuse injuries in sports injury epidemiology: the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre (OSTRC) Overuse Injury ...

Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to Benjamin Clarsen, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, PO Box ...
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Warm-up is not a workout: a principles-based critique of continued efforts to use warm-up programmes for ACL injury prevention

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Risk factors for head injury events in professional rugby union: a video analysis of 464 head injury events to inform proposed injury prevention strategies

Objectives The tackle is responsible for the majority of head injuries during rugby union. In order to address head injury risk, risk factors during the tackle must first be identified. This study ...
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Great Britain Rowing Team Guideline for Diagnosis and Management of Rib Stress Injury: Part 2 – The Guideline itself

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2016 consensus statement of the International Ankle Consortium: prevalence, impact and long-term consequences of lateral ankle sprains

The Executive Committee of the International Ankle Consortium presents this 2016 position paper with recommendations for information implementation and continued research based on the paradigm that ...
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Intrinsic risk factors of non-contact quadriceps and hamstring strains in soccer: a prospective study of 100 professional players

1 Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Quantitative Analysis & Kinesiology Research, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Physiotherapy, Biomechanics and Sports ...
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Fitness testing of tennis players: How valuable is it?

Correspondence to Dr Jaime Fernandez-Fernandez, Training Analysis and Optimization, Sports Research Centre, Miguel Hernandez University, Avda Universidad s/n, Elche, Alicante 03202, Spain; ...
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Exercise to prevent falls in older adults: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

4 School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Professor Catherine Sherrington, The George Institute for Global Health ...
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Workload, injury prevention and the quest for greater pitching velocity in adolescent baseball players: the sports medicine conundrum

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MRI findings in soccer players with long-standing adductor-related groin pain and asymptomatic controls

Background Soccer players are commonly affected by long-standing adductor-related groin pain (ARGP), but the clinical significance of MRI findings in these athletes is largely unknown. Our aims were ...