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The soundtrack to success: can music enhance elite athlete’s health and performance?

Elite athletes operate in a world of ever-growing physical and psychological demands. With escalating training intensity, relentless match schedules, constant travel, rigorous rehabilitation and ...
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Clarifying the real challenge: adherence, not efficacy, is the barrier to exercise as medicine

In our recent review,1 we applied an evolutionary perspective to explore why exercise may never be effective medicine in practice, and we appreciate the questions raised by Zagury and Braga in support ...
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Epidemiology and prevention of football-related injuries in youth male football players: development of the ‘FUNBALL’ programme (PhD Academy Award)

The aims of my thesis were (1) to investigate the efficacy of existing multi-component exercise-based injury prevention programmes (IPPs); (2) to describe the development process for the first IPP ...
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Effectiveness of cryotherapy on pain intensity, range of motion, swelling and function in the postoperative care of musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review and meta ...

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of cryotherapy on pain intensity, range of motion (ROM), swelling and function in the postoperative care of musculoskeletal disorders. Design Systematic ...
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Infographic. Keep an eye on vision after concussion—screening tool and procedure for the two most common concussion-related vision disorders: convergence insufficiency and ...

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Impaired neuromusculoskeletal response to training stimuli associated with low energy availability: a systematic review

Objective Low energy availability (LEA) impairs musculoskeletal health, with emerging evidence of impaired neuromusculoskeletal adaptations to training. We aimed to synthesise the existing evidence ...
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Injuries affect team performance negatively in professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study

3 Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Correspondence to Martin Hägglund, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Medical ...
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“The pain isn’t the hardest challenge… it’s the frustration at how much it affects my day-to-day life, my mental health and my ability to train”: a qualitative thematic analysis of elite athletes’ ...
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Risk factors for sports injuries — a methodological approach

Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, University of Sport & Physical Education, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Professor Bahr, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, University of Sport & Physical ...
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PRICE needs updating, should we call the POLICE?

1 Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, UK 2 Sports Institute of Northern Ireland, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, UK ...
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Debunking the myths about training load, injury and performance: empirical evidence, hot topics and recommendations for practitioners

Correspondence to Professor Tim J Gabbett, Gabbett Performance Solutions, Brisbane, QLD, Australia and University of Southern Queensland, Institute for Resilient Regions, Ipswich, QLD, Australia; ...
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Guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period

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