Background Chronic musculoskeletal disorders are a prevalent and costly global health issue. A new form of exercise therapy focused on loading and resistance programmes that temporarily aggravates a ...

Objective To synthesise randomised controlled trials (RCTs) regarding the effects of chronic exercise interventions on different domain-specific executive functions (EFs) among children and ...

10 Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, New Jersey, USA 11 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA The ...

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 ...

MRC/UCT Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Research Unit, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Objective: The aim of this study ...

A systematic search of published reports was carried out in three electronic databases from 1966 on to identify relevant articles relating to tennis injuries. There were 39 case reports, 49 laboratory ...

Introduction Cam morphology is a strong risk factor for the development of hip pain and osteoarthritis. It is increasingly thought to develop in association with intense physical activity during youth ...

OBJECTIVES: The main objective was to assess the influence of resistance exercise on pain threshold and pain ratings. Secondary objectives included measuring state anxiety, body awareness, systolic ...

Objective To examine the association of leisure-time physical activity with mortality from influenza and pneumonia. Methods A nationally representative sample of US adults (aged ≥18 years) who ...

Objectives To examine the correction of posture, increase in strength and decrease in shoulder pain and dysfunction in varsity swimmers. Design and Setting Randomised clinical trial. Participants ...

Correspondence to Argyro Kotsifaki, Rehabilitation Department, Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar; argyro.kotsifaki{at}aspetar.com Objectives Vertical jump ...

Correspondence to Pim van Klij, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3015CE, The Netherlands; p.vanklij{at}erasmusmc.nl Objectives Cam morphology is not completely understood.