Competitive athletes consistently demonstrate high rates of oral disease. This mixed-methods study investigated and compared ...

Background/ Aim In professional soccer, comprehensive musculoskeletal assessments are performed prior to player transfers to ...

Purpose Sprint interval training (SIT) provides a strong stimulus for improving cardiovascular fitness, which is among the key markers for premature mortality. Recent literature demonstrated that SIT ...

Background Insertional Achilles tendinopathy is well known to be difficult to treat, especially when there is intra-tendinous bone pathology. This study is a case series on patients with chronic ...

Aim To estimate the incidence of injury in adult elite women’s football and to characterise the nature and anatomical location of injuries. Data sources Combinations of the key terms were entered into ...

Sufficient high-quality studies in sport science using women as participants are lacking, meaning that our knowledge and understanding of female athletes in relation to their ovarian hormone profiles ...

Background Static stretching (SS) is a recovery intervention used for the reduction of muscle soreness postexercise. The effects of SS on elite young footballers have received little attention, and ...

Objectives To investigate spinal kinematics, tibial and sacral impacts during fast bowling, among bowlers with a history of low back pain (LBP) (retrospective) and bowlers who developed LBP in the ...

Following a local print advertisement and using the WHO Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ),25 between September 2016 and May 2017, we recruited 53 (27 males; 26 females) healthy sedentary ...

Objective To investigate the impact of Tai Chi training on muscle strength, physical endurance, postural balance and flexibility, as measured by tests commonly used in health-related fitness or ...

Objective No previous study has compared water and oral rehydration solution (ORS) intake after dehydration induced by exercise in the heat for the effect on muscle cramps. The present study tested ...

Single leg squat (SLS) is a common tool used in clinical examination to set and evaluate rehabilitation goals, but also to assess lower extremity function in active people. Objectives To conduct a ...