I want to monitor my athlete but where do I start? Given the relationships among athlete workloads, injury1 and performance,2 athlete monitoring has become critical in the high-performance sporting ...

Objective Health effects of different physical activity domains (ie, during leisure time, work and transport) are generally considered positive. Using Active Worker consortium data, we assessed ...

Background: Groin pain is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to sports medicine. The literature provides no consensus on definitions of or diagnostic criteria for groin pain in athletes. To ...

Orthopaedic Department, University Hospital, Sart-Tilman, B-4000 Liége, Belgium Correspondence to: N Popovic, Orthopaedic Department, University Hospital, Sart ...

Correspondence to Dr Karsten Hollander, Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, University of Hamburg, Institute of Human Movement Science, Hamburg 20148, Germany; karsten.hollander{at}uni-hamburg ...

Background: Footballers constitute a unique group of patients with tibial shaft fractures. They tend to have excellent general health and well developed musculature in the leg, and their fractures are ...

Correspondence to Alessio Bricca, Research Unit for Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, ...

1 Department of Surgical and Perioperative Science, Sports Medicine, University of Umeå, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden 2 Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine, ...

Despite extensive use over 40 years, physical activity questionnaires still show limited reliability and validity. Measurements have value in indicating conditions where an increase in physical ...

1 Human Performance Laboratory, University of California, Davis, California, USA Correspondence to: Dr Hawkins, One Shields Avenue, Room 275 Hickey Gym, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA ...

Correspondence to Dr Steven L Dischiavi, Department of Physical Therapy, High Point University, 1 University Parkway, High Point, NC 27268, USA; sdischia{at}highpoint.edu We present a new concept that ...

Iliotibial band friction syndrome is a common cause of knee pain in long distance runners. The pain is caused by friction of the iliotibial band over the lateral epicondyle of the femur. Two hundred ...