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Overuse injuries and burnout in youth sports: a position statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine

1 Division of Sports Medicine and Non-Operative Orthopaedics, Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and ...
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Injury history as a risk factor for incident injury in youth soccer

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Objectives: To determine if athletes with a ...
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Great Britain Rowing Team Guideline for diagnosis and management of rib stress injury: Part 1

Correspondence to Dr Guy Evans, Great Britain Rowing Team, 6 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, London NG7 2UH, UK; guy.evans{at}gbrowingteam.org.uk Background Rib stress injury (RSI) is the development of pain ...
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Research approaches to describe the mechanisms of injuries in sport: limitations and possibilities

Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Professor Bahr Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian University of ...
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Upper respiratory tract infection is reduced in physically fit and active adults

1 Human Performance Laboratory, Appalachian State University, North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North ...
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Adverse events of exercise therapy in randomised controlled trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To evaluate the relative risk (RR) of serious and non-serious adverse events in patients treated with exercise therapy compared with those in a non-exercising control group. Design ...
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Is it the shoes? A simple proposal for regulating footwear in road running

Correspondence to Geoffrey T Burns, University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; gtburns{at}umich.edu The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) rule ...
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Does telephone-delivered exercise advice and support by physiotherapists improve pain and/or function in people with knee osteoarthritis? Telecare randomised controlled trial

Objective Evaluate a physiotherapist-led telephone-delivered exercise advice and support intervention for people with knee osteoarthritis. Methods Participant-blinded, assessor-blinded randomised ...
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Estimating unbiased sports injury rates: a compendium of injury rates calculated by athlete exposure and athlete at risk methods

Correspondence to Dr Ian Shrier, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, H3T 1E2, Canada; ian.shrier{at}mcgill.ca ...
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Knee kinematics and joint moments during gait following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

1 Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 Melbourne School of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3 School ...
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A pilot study of the eccentric decline squat in the management of painful chronic patellar tendinopathy

Objectives: This non-randomised pilot study investigated the effect of eccentric quadriceps training on 17 patients (22 tendons) with painful chronic patellar tendinopathy. Results: Good clinical ...
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Avoiding the ‘REDs Card’. We all have a role in the mitigation of REDs in athletes

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 ...