Sport Medicine Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Objective: To determine if there is ...

Background Identification of high-risk sports, including their most common and severe injuries and illnesses, will facilitate the identification of sports and athletes at risk at an early stage. Aim ...

1 Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia 2 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ...

Objectives: There has been growing controversy regarding long term effects of repeated low severity head impacts such as when heading a football. However, there are few scientific data substantiating ...

Correspondence to Dr Robert G McCormack, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of British Columbia, Suite 102-65 Richmond Street, New Westminster, BC, Canada V3L5P5; drbobmccormack{at}me.com ...

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to: Associate Professor Finch, Department of ...

1 Sports Medicine Department, The Hague Medical Centre, Leidschendam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr J L Tol, The ...

Centre for Human Performance, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court, Epsom, Surrey, UK Correspondence to Jakob Kristensen, Centre for Human ...

Background Little information exists on the illness and injury patterns of athletes preparing for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Among the possible explanations for the current lack of knowledge ...

University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Center for Sports Medicine, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Henk van der Worp, Center for Sports Medicine, University ...

2 NHS Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, Birmingham, UK 3 NHS Birmingham East & North Primary Care Trust, Birmingham, UK 4 Department of Statistics, Public Health Building, University of ...

Objective To evaluate the relative risk (RR) of serious and non-serious adverse events in patients treated with exercise therapy compared with those in a non-exercising control group. Design ...