Objective To estimate the dose–response associations between non-occupational physical activity and several chronic disease and mortality outcomes in the general adult population. Design Systematic ...

Objective: To determine if an athlete’s capacity to perform exercise is impaired following concussion and whether this would be reflected by an altered heart rate response. Methods: Of the 14 ...

Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7489 Trondheim, Norway Correspondence to: Dr Hoff, Department of Physiology and Biomedical ...

Background: The protection of athletes’ health by preventing injuries is an important task for international sports federations. Standardised injury surveillance provides not only important ...

Objectives: To examine the influence of different playing surfaces on in-shoe loading patterns during tennis-specific movements. Methods: Ten experienced male players performed two types of ...

Objective To synthesise the evidence on the effects of physical activity on symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adult populations. Design Umbrella review. Data sources Twelve ...

Objective: To determine if the combined isometric contractions of knee extension/hip adduction and knee extension/hip abduction will elicit a different quadriceps and gluteus medius electromyographic ...

Overuse tendinopathy is problematic to manage clinically. People of different ages with tendons under diverse loads present with varying degrees of pain, irritability, and capacity to function.

All sports authorities need to be aware of the problem of child abuse and have guidelines to ensure that such problems are minimised In recent times, we have seen widespread publicity given to ...

3 School of Sport, Health, and Social Sciences, Southampton Solent University, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dale Forsdyke, Applied Human Sciences Department, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, ...

Objective Intention is the proximal antecedent of physical activity in many popular psychological models. Despite the utility of these models, the discrepancy between intention and actual behaviour, ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Objectives: To determine if athletes with a ...