Background/ Aim In professional soccer, comprehensive musculoskeletal assessments are performed prior to player transfers to ...

Competitive athletes consistently demonstrate high rates of oral disease. This mixed-methods study investigated and compared ...

Objectives To study the associations between daily self-reported stress, sleep quality, muscle soreness and fatigue in the ...

Adolescent athletes have specific developmental risks for sports injury and the onset of mental health problems. Research has ...

Purpose Exposure to repetitive head impacts sustained during routine sports participation may result in elevated levels of ...

Sedentary behaviour is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in people with ...

Objectives To examine the propensity of tackle height and the number of tacklers that result in head acceleration events (HAEs) in elite-level male and female rugby tackles. Methods Instrumented ...

Objectives This study aims to quantitatively evaluate whether there are muscle mass differences between male and female recreational cyclists and compare muscle quality and body composition in the ...

Objectives Our aim was to describe the absence days caused by the 30 most frequent injury diagnoses in elite European women’s club football. Methods Members of the medical staff in football clubs ...

Objectives Non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy (AT) is a common running injury. Exercise loading programme (EXER) is the primary treatment. Other options include radial pressure wave (RPW, commonly ...

Background Obesity is a known risk factor for hypertension, but the extent to which physical activity mediates this relationship remains unclear. Methods Cross-sectional data from medical exams of ...