Decision-making for the optimal management of traumatic knee injuries can be challenging. Clinical trials reveal only small ...

Time-to-event is a powerful statistical approach increasingly used in sports science and medicine to examine time-to-event ...

Women with clinically severe obesity are at risk of poor physical and mental health. Lifestyle interventions must be developed to support exercise participation for this group. The factors influencing ...

Approximately 1.7 billion people worldwide live with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, 1 contributing to a high socioeconomic burden exceeding €250 billion in Europe2 and US$180 billion in the USA.3 Beyond ...

Objectives Early protective motion (EPM) treatment, using a rigid functional knee brace for acute anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, has been reported to restore ACL function. This study aimed ...

Objective Handgrip strength (HGS) is a simple, non-invasive measure associated with disability, frailty and disease activity ...

Exertional rhabdomyolysis is characterised by muscle breakdown associated with strenuous exercise or normal exercise under extreme circumstances. Key features are severe muscle pain and sudden ...

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of a sport-specific energy availability (EA) questionnaire, combined with clinical interview, for identifying male athletes at risk of developing bone health, ...

Injuries are recognised in sports and exercise medicine as not isolated incidents but complex outcomes. This is because an athlete’s health trajectory is understood to be shaped by dynamic, complex ...

Objective A growing number of ultra-endurance athletes have switched to a very low-carbohydrate/high-fat eating pattern. We compared markers of cholesterol and the lipoprotein profile in a group of ...

Background The prevalence of obesity has tripled over the past 35 years. Although caloric restriction reduces body fat, lean tissue is also lost. Resistance exercise may mitigate these effects. This ...

Objectives Postural stability (PS) refers to the ability to maintain balance during various movements. Proprioception deficits in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) often lead to significant ...