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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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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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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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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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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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Ice-water immersion and delayed-onset muscle soreness: a randomised controlled trial

Objective: To determine if ice-water immersion after eccentric quadriceps exercise minimises the symptoms of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Design: A prospective randomised double-blind ...
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Time-trends and circumstances surrounding ankle injuries in men's professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study

3 Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Correspondence to Dr Markus Waldén, Division of Community Medicine, Department of ...
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The reliability and validity of the physical activity questions in the WHO health behaviour in schoolchildren (HBSC) survey: a population study

1 NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia 2 Physical ...
British Journal of Sports Medicine

Non-operative treatment of anterior cruciate ligament injuries: two-thirds avoid surgery at 2-year follow-up in a nationwide cohort

Objective To describe the nationwide population of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injured patients initially managed ...
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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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Psychosocial factors associated with outcomes of sports injury rehabilitation in competitive athletes: a mixed studies systematic review

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, ...
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Anterior cruciate ligament injury: towards a gendered environmental approach

Background The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3–6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date ...