The use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) by young athletes has been a primary concern of sports governing bodies because of the implications for unfair advantage in performance and the potential ...

Using real-time data capture strategies to study OPA and cardiometabolic risk To address the empirical gaps described above and better establish a causal linkage, evidence is needed to understand ...

The global prevalence of pelvic organ prolapse (PoP) varies widely, but it is estimated that up to 40% of women will experience some degree of PoP in their lifetime. The likelihood of developing PoP ...

The Executive Committee of the International Ankle Consortium presents this 2016 position paper with recommendations for information implementation and continued research based on the paradigm that ...

Objective To evaluate whether interventions aimed at increasing adherence to therapeutic exercise increase adherence greater than a contextually equivalent control among older adults with chronic low ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts around 9.5 million people (1.9 million people under 20) across the world and is a leading chronic health condition impacting those under the age of 18.1 As the condition ...

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.—Hippocrates circa 400 BC As eloquently ...

Methods 58 participants comprising 27 elite athletes, 20 support staff (eg, coaches, physicians, physiotherapists) and 11 sport organisational staff (eg, general managers, athlete well-being officers) ...

Objective To investigate the occurrence and inciting events of hamstring injuries (HSIs) in elite women’s football through video analysis, describing the mechanism, situational patterns and ...

The day everything changed At age 20, my whole life changed. Without warning, I collapsed on 3 June 2017, later diagnosed with a complete spinal cord injury at my 10th thoracic vertebrae. After months ...

The Get Set app provides the amateur and elite athlete with injury preventive exercises for a range of sports. The app has been created by the International Olympic Committee with input from athletes ...

Follow-up investigations of large cohorts of men and women in USA demonstrate that a low cardiorespiratory fitness constitutes the largest attributable fraction for all cause death.1 These findings ...