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Injury incidence and injury patterns in professional football: the UEFA injury study

Objective To study the injury characteristics in professional football and to follow the variation of injury incidence during a match, during a season and over consecutive seasons. Design Prospective ...
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Is body mass index associated with patellofemoral pain and patellofemoral osteoarthritis? A systematic review and meta-regression and analysis

1 Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, La Trobe ...
British Journal of Sports Medicine

Implementing recommendations from the FAIR consensus: where do we start?

Consensus scoping review identified 220 papers that included outcomes relating to dissemination and implementation (D&I) of ...
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Anterior cruciate ligament injury: towards a gendered environmental approach

Background The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3–6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date ...
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Incidence of midportion Achilles tendinopathy in the general population

1 Sports Medicine Department, The Hague Medical Centre, Leidschendam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Orthopaedics, ...
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Correction: Does surgery reduce knee osteoarthritis, meniscal injury and subsequent complications compared with non-surgery after ACL rupture with at least 10 years follow-up ...

Lien-Iversen T, Morgan DB, Jensen C, et al. Does surgery reduce knee osteoarthritis, meniscal injury and subsequent complications compared with non-surgery after ACL rupture with ...
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A pilot study of the eccentric decline squat in the management of painful chronic patellar tendinopathy

Objectives: This non-randomised pilot study investigated the effect of eccentric quadriceps training on 17 patients (22 tendons) with painful chronic patellar tendinopathy. Results: Good clinical ...
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Erythropoietin and blood doping

Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses, Institute of Legal Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland Correspondence to: M Saugy Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses, Institute of Legal Medicine, Lausanne, ...
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Infographic. ISPAH’s Eight Investments That Work for Physical Activity: infographic, animation and call to action

Correspondence to The International Society for Physical Activity and Health, Prevention Research Collaboration, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ...
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Architectural adaptations of muscle to training and injury: a narrative review outlining the contributions by fascicle length, pennation angle and muscle thickness

1 School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland ...
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The incidence of concussion in professional and collegiate ice hockey: are we making progress? A systematic review of the literature

Background The fast, random nature and characteristics of ice hockey make injury prevention a challenge as high-velocity impacts with players, sticks and boards occur and may result in a variety of ...
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Effect of high-speed running on hamstring strain injury risk

1 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Background Hamstring strain injuries ...