BMJ2d
Boston Marathon athlete performance outcomes and intra-event medical encounter risk associated with low energy availability indicators
Objective To determine the association between survey-based self-reported problematic low energy availability indicators (LEA-I) and race performance and intra-event medical encounters during the ...
BMJ5d
Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context
Objective Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion.
BMJ2d
Mass casualties and triage at a sporting event
Correspondence to: Dr Delaney, McGill Sport Medicine Clinic, 475 Pine Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1S4; jdelan2{at}po-box.mcgill.ca When a sports medicine doctor provides coverage for a ...
BMJ1d
Sensitivity and specificity of clinical signs for assessment of dehydration in endurance athletes
1 Department of General Practice & Primary Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 3 UCT/MRC Research Unit for ...
BMJ2d
Artificial playing surface increases the injury risk in pivoting indoor sports: a prospective one-season follow-up study in Finnish female floorball
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 ...
BMJ2d
Evaluating the level of injury in English professional football using a risk based assessment process
2 Scarman Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7QA, UK Correspondence to: Dr Fuller, Scarman Centre, University of Leicester, 154 Upper New Walk, Leicester LE1 7QA, UK;cwf2{at}le.ac.uk ...
BMJ2d
High-intensity intermittent training versus moderate-intensity intermittent training: is it a matter of intensity or intermittent efforts?
Correspondence to Dr David Jiménez-Pavón, GALENO Research Group and Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Cádiz, Cádiz 11519, Spain; david.jimenez{at}uca.es If ...
BMJ1d
MRI investigation for groin pain in athletes: is radiological terminology clarifying or confusing?
Advances in the field of groin pain in athletes have long been hampered by the use of inconsistent and confusing nomenclature. This reflects a lack of clarity on whether pathology is clinically ...
BMJ2d
Cooling strategies improve intermittent sprint performance in the heat of athletes with tetraplegia
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 ...
BMJ3d
Consensus statement on epidemiological studies of medical conditions in tennis, April 2009
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 ...
BMJ2d
Exact moment of a gastrocnemius muscle strain captured on video
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 ...
BMJ4d
Managing player load in professional rugby union: a review of current knowledge and practices
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 ...