Objectives: To compare transmitted forces through ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) mouthguard material and the same EVA material with gas inclusions in the form of a closed cell foam. Method: EVA ...

Correspondence to: Mr T Leary, Division of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom. Background—There is a dearth of evidenced based research ...

Objective: To ascertain the epidemiology of ankle injuries in elite youth football. Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected injury data from English Football Association (FA) ...

Objective To describe the incidence of injuries and illnesses sustained during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games from 23 July to 8 August 2021. Methods We recorded the daily number of athlete injuries ...

Introduction The aetiology, pathogenesis, and pain generators in chronic tendinopathy remain to be elucidated. Biologic therapies, such autologous blood (AB) and platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections, ...

Correspondence to Anthony Schache, Senior Research Fellow, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3010; anthonys{at}unimelb.edu.au Objective: Groin pain ...

This systematic review set out to identify randomised controlled trials and controlled intervention studies that evaluated the effectiveness of preventive strategies in adolescent sport and to draw ...

Objectives: To determine if boxing exposure has changed over time and hence if current professional boxers are at the same risk of developing chronic traumatic brain injury (CTBI) as historical ...

Centre for Human Performance, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court, Epsom, Surrey, UK Correspondence to Jakob Kristensen, Centre for Human ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead, Australia 3 Department of Medical Imaging, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead 4 Department of Endocrinology, The Children’s Hospital ...

Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Ullevål Stadion, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Dr Thor Einar Andersen Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, ...