Background: It is well established that prolonged, exhaustive endurance exercise is capable of inducing skeletal muscle damage and temporary impairment of muscle function. Although skeletal muscle has ...

Background In a recent single season audit of men’s English professional football, the incidence of injury was reported as 9.11 injuries/1000 h (Jones et al., 2019). Whilst this provides an up to date ...

1 Musculoskeletal Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University Bundoora, Bundoora, Australia 2 School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University Bundoora, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia ...

Background/aim Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is defined as a separation of the 2 muscle bellies of rectus abdominis. To date there is scant knowledge on prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of ...

Background: The capacity of the plantar sole of the foot to convey information about foot position is reduced by conventional smooth boot insoles, compared with barefoot surface contact. Objective: To ...

Background Exercise-based interventions have consistently been associated with a reduction in injury rates in sports such as football. Although the injury burden in rugby union (‘rugby’) is high, such ...

Correspondence to Dr Kirsten Corder, MRC Epidemiology Unit University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Box 285, Institute of Metabolic Science Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge CB2 0QQ UK; ...

Background: Travelling across multiple time zones disrupts normal circadian rhythms and induces “jet lag”. Possible effects of this on training and performance in athletes were concerns before the ...

Objective Elite para athletes report a high incidence of sports injuries. Research suggests that athletes’ strategies to manage adversities may influence the sports injury risk, but knowledge about ...

Objectives: The respiratory compensation point (RCP) marks the onset of hyperventilation (“respiratory compensation”) during incremental exercise. Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely ...