Female participation and professionalisation within sport is growing, leading to greater investment, competition and publicity. Despite this, there is a lack of female-specific research and frameworks ...

Objective Low physical activity (PA) levels are associated with increased mortality. Improved measurement has resulted in stronger proven associations between PA and mortality, but this has not yet ...

1 Université de Lille–Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société–Equipe Activité Physique, Muscle, Santé–9 rue de l'Université–59790, Ronchin, France Purpose Little is known about ...

Although the overall injury rate in volleyball and beach volleyball is relatively low compared with other team sports, injuries do occur in a discipline specific pattern. Epidemiological research has ...

Correspondence to Professor Margo Mountjoy, Family Medicine, McMaster University Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo, ON N2G 1C5, Canada; mountjm{at}mcmaster.ca If you wish to reuse any or ...

Objective: Patellar tendon injury, defined by tendon abnormality (TA) on imaging and by pain, is common among volleyball players, but little is known about change in this injury over a volleyball ...

1 Department of Family Practice and Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2 School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Education, University of British ...

Correspondence to Dr Karin Grävare Silbernagel, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, 540 South College Ave, Newark, DE 19713, USA; kgs{at}udel.edu Aim This systematic review and ...

2 Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to: Dr J Cook Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe ...

2 Department of Surgery, Chief Neurosurgery Service and Director, Sports Medicine Service, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, USA; Medical Director, National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research ...

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Center for Sports Medicine, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Henk van der Worp, Center for Sports Medicine, University ...