The recent call by Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead for improved access to advanced prosthetics within the National Health Service (NHS) underscores a critical issue in sports and rehabilitation: ...

Objective Elite para athletes report a high incidence of sports injuries. Research suggests that athletes’ strategies to manage adversities may influence the sports injury risk, but knowledge about ...

Methods 10 healthy pregnant (26.4±3.2 weeks gestation) and 10 healthy non-pregnant individuals were recruited (34.8±6 and 33.5±2.9 years, respectively). At least 48 hours after baseline strength ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin F Mentiplay, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; b.mentiplay{at}latrobe.edu.au Objective To ...

Objectives To examine the correction of posture, increase in strength and decrease in shoulder pain and dysfunction in varsity swimmers. Design and Setting Randomised clinical trial. Participants ...

2 Department of Family Practice (Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre) and School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3 Department of Physiotherapy, LaTrobe University ...

Correspondence to: Dr Waldén Department of Health and Society, Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden; markus.waldentelia.com Background: No previous study on adult football involving ...

Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, University of Tehran (Medical Sciences), Tehran, Iran Correspondence to Dr Hossein Bagheri, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of ...

1 Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, Austin, Texas, USA 2 Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kirsten Corder, MRC Epidemiology Unit University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Box 285, Institute of Metabolic Science Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge CB2 0QQ UK; ...

Objective: The injury data from the first two seasons of the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) were analysed to determine the injury incidence, anatomic location of injuries, and relation of ...

Background: The capacity of the plantar sole of the foot to convey information about foot position is reduced by conventional smooth boot insoles, compared with barefoot surface contact. Objective: To ...