Introduction The incidence of tendinopathy increases with aging. Alterations to the balance between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) may play a ...

4 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Professor Stephen R Lord, Falls and Balance Research Group, Neuroscience Research ...

Background Sideline detection is the first and most significant step in recognising a potential concussion and removing an athlete from harm. This systematic review aims to evaluate the critical ...

Objective Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion.

In 2014, as part of the outcomes from the inaugural World Heart Federations Emerging Leaders’ work,1 a network of ...

‘Women in Sport’ has been a topic virtually ignored by most scholars and thus female sport participation has been a relatively undeveloped area of research. Sex role, stereotyping, male research bias ...

Correspondence to Dr Nikola Drca, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 141 86, Sweden; nikola.drca{at}ki.se Objective Previous studies have found that endurance sport ...

In the UK, when a young person dies suddenly, the coroner is responsible for establishing the cause of death. They will ask a consultant pathologist to carry out an autopsy in order to ascertain when, ...

Objectives To evaluate changes in patellofemoral cartilage thickness over 5 years after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and to determine the impact of treatment strategy. Methods 121 adults ...

Correspondence to Chantel L Rabusin, Discipline of Podiatry, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; c.rabusin{at}latrobe.edu.au ...

Objective Our aim was to define the priorities for future research in safeguarding athletes from interpersonal violence (IV) ...

Objectives Physical activity guidelines are evidence-based statements on recommended physical activity levels for good health. Guidelines, in isolation, are unlikely to increase population levels of ...