Respiratory issues are a prevalent and impactful problem in sports and exercise medicine (SEM).1 Indeed, some form of breathing issue is reported in a fifth of endurance athletes and can impair their ...

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Objective To quantify the extent of musculoskeletal injuries in Olympic Athletics (track and field) disciplines by synthesising the current evidence on the prevalence of injured athletes, injury event ...

Objective The proliferation of youth sport specialisation may be concerning for the overall health of adolescent athletes, but no validated tool to measure specialisation exists. We aimed to assess ...

Dear Editor, We recently reviewed the article " Soft-tissue Injuries Simply Need PEACE and LOVE" in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. (1) This study presented preliminary evidence suggesting ...

Objectives To evaluate prevention strategies, their unintended consequences and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussion (SRC) and/or head impact risk. Design This systematic review and ...

Background Upper and lower limb (peripheral) pain is prevalent in athletes. Contemporary research prioritises multidimensional pain assessment and classification. This study aims to review ...

Correspondence to Pr Pascal Edouard, Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, IRMIS, Campus Santé Innovations, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 42 055, ...

Background The literature supports exercise to avert injuries in the lower extremity and injuries in general. Nevertheless, the utilisation of exercise strategies to prevent sports-related shoulder ...

Correspondence to Dr Amanda Day Braaten, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA; amanda.braaten{at}duke.edu Objective The purpose of this ...

Physical inactivity was characterised as a global pandemic in the 2012 Lancet series on physical activity and health.1 The extent of the pandemic, causes and potential solutions were further explored ...

Aim To investigate the accuracy of the recently published international recommendations for ECG interpretation in young athletes in a large cohort of white and black adolescent soccer players. Methods ...