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UEFA injury study: a prospective study of hip and groin injuries in professional football over seven consecutive seasons

Background: Groin injury is a common injury in football and a complicated area when it comes to diagnosis and therapy. There is a lack of comprehensive epidemiological data on groin injuries in ...
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The effectiveness of a neuromuscular prevention strategy to reduce injuries in youth soccer: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Sport Medicine Centre, Roger Jackson Centre for Health and Wellness Research, Faculty of Kinesiology and Community Health Sciences and Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, ...
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Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for meniscal tears of the knee: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To assess the benefit of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) in adults with a meniscal tear and knee pain in three defined populations (taking account of the comparison intervention): (A ...
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One-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial on added splinting to eccentric exercises in chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy

1 Sports Medicine Department, The Hague Medical Centre, Leidschendam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr J L Tol, The ...
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Is compressive load a factor in the development of tendinopathy?

Tendons are designed to take tensile load, but excessive load can cause overuse tendinopathy. Overuse tendinopathy results in extensive changes to the cells and extracellular matrix, resulting in ...
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Prevalence of clinically elevated depressive symptoms in college athletes and differences by gender and sport

Background There are approximately 400 000 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student athletes and 5–7 million high school student athletes competing each year. According to the US ...
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The reliability measurements of lateral scapular slide test at three different degrees of shoulder joint abduction

Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, University of Tehran (Medical Sciences), Tehran, Iran Correspondence to Dr Hossein Bagheri, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of ...
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Physical inactivity: the biggest public health problem of the 21st century

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The quality of research in sports journals

2 Department of Epidemiology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Mulhouse Building, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Correspondence to: Professor MacAuley, Department of Epidemiology, The Queen's ...
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Injuries among weightlifters and powerlifters: a systematic review

Background Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting are two sports that expose the body to great forces. Injury characteristics have not been systematically reviewed for these two growing sports.
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Are all sport activities equal? A systematic review of how youth psychosocial experiences vary across differing sport activities

Correspondence to Dr M Blair Evans, Department of Kinesiology, 268C Recreation Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 16803, USA; mbe13{at}psu.edu Objective Models of sport development ...
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The effect of three different levels of footwear stability on pain outcomes in women runners: a randomised control trial

Background The present study examines the injury status in women runners who are randomised to receive a neutral, stability or motion control running shoe. Methods 81 female runners were categorised ...