The current pre-eminent focus in osteoarthritis research and clinical practice is on persons with established radiographic disease. This is the very end-stage of disease genesis and modern therapies ...

Background Recent investigation of human tissue and cells from positional tendons such as the rotator cuff has clarified the importance of inflammation in the development and progression of tendon ...

Objective: To determine whether quantified, auditable records of functional rehabilitation can be generated using subjective assessments of players’ performance in fitness tests routinely used in ...

2 The Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention, Ballarat Federation University, Victoria, Australia Tendinopathy can be resistant to treatment and often recurs, implying ...

1 Health and Exercise Science, School of Medical Science, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia 2 NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales, New ...

Correspondence to Dr Duncan E Meuffels, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3015 GD, The Netherlands; d.meuffels{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective To assess whether initial ...

Objective The distribution of injuries affecting professional golfers is yet to be fully understood. We performed a systematic review of the clinical literature to establish the epidemiology of ...

Background Knee reinjury after ACL reconstruction is common and increases the risk of osteoarthritis. There is sparse evidence to guide return to sport (RTS) decisions in this population. Objectives ...

MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Newlands, South Africa Correspondence to ...

3 Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Jill L Cook, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, ...

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1 Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 2 School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Bedfordshire, Bedford, UK 3 ...