Method A quasi-experimental design was used to recruit healthy subjects of age 21.43 (±1.960) years, height 165.8 (±2.1069) cm and weight 63.90 (±13.187) kg. Inclusion criteria were grade 1 and grade ...

Objectives As a high-intensity intermittent sport with short and repeated rapid accelerations, decelerations and changes of direction, badminton involves high joint and muscle loads. This review aims ...

Clinical medicine defines dehydration using blood markers that confirm hypertonicity (serum sodium concentration ([Na +])>145 mmol/L) and intracellular dehydration. Sports medicine equates dehydration ...

Background Research focused on mental health in sport has revealed a need to develop evidence-supported mental health practices that are sensitive to sport culture, particularly for non-elite athletes ...

Hamstring strains are the most common injury in elite football and typically occur during high-speed running. Despite its important contribution to power production in the late swing phase, injury to ...

Objective To determine the effects of following return to activity (RTA) and return to school (RTS) protocols on clinical outcomes for children with concussion. The 12 subquestions of this review ...

Objectives To explore the acute effects of high-intensity interval training on fetal heart rate (FHR) and uteroplacental blood flow. Method Elite (n=10) and recreational athletes (n=50) participated ...

Contrary to expectation following ACL injury, many athletes fail to reach their previous level of performance. 6 Potentially, this is due to the over-reliance on traditional time-based criteria for ...

Sufficient high-quality studies in sport science using women as participants are lacking, meaning that our knowledge and understanding of female athletes in relation to their ovarian hormone profiles ...

Objective Our objective was to evaluate the effects of long-term reduced training on the left atrium (LA) in elite endurance athletes and to elucidate sex-specific differences in LA detraining ...

Data sources Systematic searches of MEDLINE and EMBASE, supplemented by manual searches. Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Randomised controlled trials with 3 months minimum follow-up that ...

Objectives COVID-19 restrictions reduced adolescents’ opportunities for physical activity (PA). The purpose of this study was to examine how adolescent PA changed during school closures, to identify ...