Background Recent investigation of human tissue and cells from positional tendons such as the rotator cuff has clarified the importance of inflammation in the development and progression of tendon ...

Objective: To determine whether quantified, auditable records of functional rehabilitation can be generated using subjective assessments of players’ performance in fitness tests routinely used in ...

2 The Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention, Ballarat Federation University, Victoria, Australia Tendinopathy can be resistant to treatment and often recurs, implying ...

Data sources Medline (Ovid), PubMed (complementary search), Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane (Wiley), SPORTDiscus (Ebsco) and Web of Science Core Collection (Thomson Reuters), from 1 January 1990 to 15 May ...

Correspondence to Dr Duncan E Meuffels, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GD, The Netherlands; d.meuffels{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective To assess whether initial ...

Objective The distribution of injuries affecting professional golfers is yet to be fully understood. We performed a systematic review of the clinical literature to establish the epidemiology of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jackie L Whittaker, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; ...

Background Knee reinjury after ACL reconstruction is common and increases the risk of osteoarthritis. There is sparse evidence to guide return to sport (RTS) decisions in this population. Objectives ...

MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Newlands, South Africa Correspondence to ...

3 Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Jill L Cook, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, ...

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1 Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 2 School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Bedfordshire, Bedford, UK 3 ...