Mental health and well-being among elite athletes are accepted as central to athletic performance. Maximising health, and ...

Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a well-recognised condition in sports and rehabilitation, particularly after ...

In many sports, a player or coach receiving a ‘red card’ is immediately dismissed from the field of play and cannot return to the competition: an event to be avoided! Another red card to be avoided ...

Debunking the myths about training load, injury and performance: empirical evidence, hot topics and recommendations for practitioners ...

Objective To review competition injuries in taekwondo and use this information to develop recommendations to reduce the number and severity of injuries in taekwondo competition. Methods The available ...

Competitive tennis play requires a combination of the major physiological variables; however, the specifics of these variables have yet to be determined appropriately. General strength and flexibility ...

New guidelines for exercise in pregnancy and postpartum have been published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists In January 2002 the American College of Obstetricians and ...

Objective: Petrissage is assumed to influence circulation as well as interstitial drainage of both superficial and deep tissues. To study its effect it was applied between consecutive bouts of ...

Chronic groin pain is a common presentation in sports medicine. It is most often a problem in those sports that involve kicking and twisting movements while running. The morbidity of groin pain should ...

Background In randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions that aim to prevent sports injuries, the intention-to-treat principle is a recommended analysis method and one emphasised in the ...

Objective Interventions to promote walking have focused on individual or group-based approaches, often via the randomised controlled trial design. Walking can also be promoted using population health ...

Background The aim of this study was to update our original systematic review of return to sport rates following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. Method Electronic databases ...