Background Sedentary time is increasing in all societies and results in limited non-exercise physical activity (NEPA) of daily life. The importance of low NEPA for cardiovascular health and longevity ...

Background/objectives Walking pace is associated with risk of premature mortality. However, whether this relationship is independent of total volume of physical activity and highest physical activity ...

The Strategic Assessment of Risk and Risk Tolerance (StARRT) framework has been instrumental in the way practitioners view return-to-sport (RTS) decision-making.1 2 According to the framework, RTS ...

In 490 BC, the Persian Army landed on the plain of Marathon, 25 miles from Athens. The Athenians sent a messenger named Feidipides to Sparta to ask for help. He ran the 150 miles in two days. The ...

A central debate in the exercise sciences is the cause of the fatigue that develops especially during high intensity exercise of short duration. The most popular theory holds that this form of ...

Female participation and professionalisation within sport is growing, leading to greater investment, competition and publicity. Despite this, there is a lack of female-specific research and frameworks ...

10 Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, New Jersey, USA 11 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA The ...

Background: Groin injury is a common injury in football and a complicated area when it comes to diagnosis and therapy. There is a lack of comprehensive epidemiological data on groin injuries in ...

This systematic review set out to identify randomised controlled trials and controlled intervention studies that evaluated the effectiveness of preventive strategies in adolescent sport and to draw ...

6 Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager-Hvidovre, Denmark Background Adolescent female football and handball players are among the athletes with the highest risk of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jenna M Schulz, Family Medicine, Western University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, Canada; jschulz2{at}uwo.ca Objective Women are often advised to return to ...

1 School of Exercise Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland ...