BMJ11d
The digital mirror: how generative artificial intelligence reflects and amplifies gender bias
We live in unprecedented times for women in sport. In the USA, the 2024 collegiate basketball finals marked the first time in ...
BMJ4d
Elite para athletes with active coping behaviour are less likely to report a sports injury
Objective Elite para athletes report a high incidence of sports injuries. Research suggests that athletes’ strategies to manage adversities may influence the sports injury risk, but knowledge about ...
BMJ1d
Football boot insoles and sensitivity to extent of ankle inversion movement
Background: The capacity of the plantar sole of the foot to convey information about foot position is reduced by conventional smooth boot insoles, compared with barefoot surface contact. Objective: To ...
BMJ14d
Effects of three different training modalities on the cross sectional area of the lumbar multifidus muscle in patients with chronic low back pain
1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium 2 Centre of Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium 3 Department of Physical ...
BMJ2d
Change in physical activity from adolescence to early adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies
Correspondence to Dr Kirsten Corder, MRC Epidemiology Unit University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Box 285, Institute of Metabolic Science Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge CB2 0QQ UK; ...
BMJ3d
Identifying some determinants of “jet lag” and its symptoms: a study of athletes and other travellers
Background: Travelling across multiple time zones disrupts normal circadian rhythms and induces “jet lag”. Possible effects of this on training and performance in athletes were concerns before the ...
BMJ13d
Sport science and medicine in tennis
Babette M Pluim, Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association, PO Box 1617, 3800 BP Amersfoort, The Netherlands; b.pluim{at}knltb.nl Tennis is one of the major global sports, with over 75 million ...
BMJ4d
Risk factors of recurrent hamstring injuries: a systematic review
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Pieter K. Bos, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box ...
BMJ4d
Is lactic acidosis a cause of exercise induced hyperventilation at the respiratory compensation point?
Objectives: The respiratory compensation point (RCP) marks the onset of hyperventilation (“respiratory compensation”) during incremental exercise. Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely ...
BMJ4d
Feasibility of a portable pedal exercise machine for reducing sedentary time in the workplace
Background Sedentary time is independently associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease. Worksite interventions designed to decrease sedentary time may serve to improve employee health.
BMJ12d
Effect of media on the mental health of elite athletes
Correspondence to Dr Cindy Chang, Orthopaedics; Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; cjchangsportsmd{at}gmail.com After Naomi Osaka declined press conferences at the ...
BMJ9d
Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness in youth and the incidence of site-specific cancer in men: a cohort study with register linkage
Correspondence to Dr Aron Onerup, Department of Pediatrics, University of Gothenburg Institute of Clinical Sciences, Goteborg, 413 90, Sweden; aron.onerup{at}gu.se Objectives To assess the ...