Background: It is well established that prolonged, exhaustive endurance exercise is capable of inducing skeletal muscle damage and temporary impairment of muscle function. Although skeletal muscle has ...

We live in unprecedented times for women in sport. In the USA, the 2024 collegiate basketball finals marked the first time in ...

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 ...

Background In a recent single season audit of men’s English professional football, the incidence of injury was reported as 9.11 injuries/1000 h (Jones et al., 2019). Whilst this provides an up to date ...

1 Musculoskeletal Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University Bundoora, Bundoora, Australia 2 School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University Bundoora, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia ...

Background/aim Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is defined as a separation of the 2 muscle bellies of rectus abdominis. To date there is scant knowledge on prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Objectives: The respiratory compensation point (RCP) marks the onset of hyperventilation (“respiratory compensation”) during incremental exercise. Its physiological meaning has not yet been definitely ...