Nine mild to moderate asthmatic adults (three males, six females) and six non-asthmatics (one male, five females) underwent endurance running training three times per week for five weeks, at self ...

Correspondence to Alastair G Dick, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK; alastair.dick{at}nhs.net If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

Objective To promote sports participation in young people, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2007. In 2009, the IOC Consensus Statement was ...

1 Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre and Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Melbourne ...

Objective: To describe the epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League (AFL) over four seasons. Methods: An injury was defined as “any physical or medical condition that caused a player ...

In brief, the model encourages clinicians to regress modifiable variables within an exercise (eg, sets, reps, speed) to facilitate effective introduction of external stimuli or a change of environment ...

2 Physical Education and Sports School, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 3 Physical Education and Sports School, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain Background Although it is well ...

Objectives To investigate associations between daily physical activity, activity intensity and step counts with incident cancer risk. Methods Prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants who wore ...

This review focuses on the characteristics of tennis players during match play and provides a greater insight into the energy demands of tennis. A tennis match often lasts longer than an hour and in ...

Division of Sports Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Lyle J Micheli, Division of Sports Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, 319 Longwood Avenue, ...

Iliotibial band friction syndrome is a common cause of knee pain in long distance runners. The pain is caused by friction of the iliotibial band over the lateral epicondyle of the femur. Two hundred ...

Correspondence to Dr Eric J Hegedus, Department of Physical Therapy, High Point University, One University Parkway, High Point, NC 27268, USA; ehegedus{at}highpoint.edu If you wish to reuse any or all ...