Objectives: To undertake a detailed, large scale epidemiological study of match injuries sustained by professional rugby union players in order to define their incidence, nature, severity, and causes.

Objective To assess if the British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC) grade and sciatic nerve involvement on MRI at time of hamstring strain injury (HSI) were associated with the time to ...

7 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Correspondence to Dr Cheri A Blauwet, Department of Physical Medicine and ...

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From 4 to 7 April 2016, 24 researchers from 8 countries and from a variety of academic disciplines gathered in Snekkersten, Denmark, to reach evidence-based consensus about physical activity in ...

Musculoskeletal Research Centre and School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Objective: To determine whether the psychological characteristics of athletes who have undergone ...

Correspondence to Professor Roald Bahr, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, 0806 Oslo, Norway; roald{at}nih.no, roald.bahr{at}nih.no ...

Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and SportDiscus. Eligibility criteria Inclusion criteria comprised studies of transgender individuals comparing body composition or physical fitness ...

Objectives To compare hospitalisation rates, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and mortality for patients with COVID-19 who were consistently inactive, doing some activity or consistently meeting ...

Mendes Sieczkowska S, Caruso Mazzolani B, Reis Coimbra D, et al. Body composition and physical fitness in transgender versus cisgender individuals: a systematic review with meta-analysis. British ...

Background Return-to-play (RTP) decision-making is required for every injured athlete. However, these decisions often lead to conflict between sport medicine professionals, athletes, coaches and sport ...

3 Centre for Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium Correspondence to: Renaat M Philippaerts Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Movement and ...