Background Ultrasound (US) imaging is commonly used to visualise tendon structure. It is not clear whether the presence of structural abnormalities in asymptomatic tendons predicts the development of ...

Ms K Pasanen, Tampere Research Center of Sports Medicine, UKK Institute, PO Box 30, FIN-33501 Tampere, Finland; kati.pasanen{at}uta.fi Objectives: To compare the injury risk in pivoting indoor sports ...

A left gastrocnemius strain was sustained by an elite cricket batsman while he was taking off to run. The exact moment of injury, captured by a camera in the middle stump, appears to correspond to the ...

3 School of Science and the Environment, Coventry University, Coventry, UK 4 School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK Correspondence to Dr Nick Webborn, British ...

Background: The reported incidence, severity and nature of injuries sustained in tennis vary considerably between studies. While some of these variations can be explained by differences in sample ...

Hamstring injuries (HSIs) are the most common athletic injury in running and pivoting sports, but despite large amounts of research, injury rates have not declined in the last 2 decades. HSI often ...

Background The loads to which professional rugby players are subjected has been identified as a concern by coaches, players and administrators. In November 2014, World Rugby commissioned an expert ...

Objective Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion.

2 Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA Correspondence to Ms Holly Jacinda Silvers, Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research ...

Administration of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHumanEPO) improves sporting performance and hence is frequently subject to abuse by athletes, although rHumanEPO is prohibited by the WADA.

Correspondence to Dr Claude Bouchard, Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA; claude.bouchard{at}pbrc.edu There is evidence from human twin ...

Objective Our aim was to define the priorities for future research in safeguarding athletes from interpersonal violence (IV) ...