The Scandinavian winter months are a challenging period. Long, dark nights and days with hardly any sunshine allow melancholy ...

Objectives To examine associations between The Daily Mile, a school-based active mile intervention, and pupils’ physical ...

Objectives To study the prevalence of pain and analgesic use in amateur football players and explore sex-based and age-based differences. Methods A prospective cohort study of 316 amateur football ...

Introduction Sports-related concussions (SRCs) are frequently under-reported in youth sports, especially football, due to limited awareness, inconsistent reporting practices and a lack of medical ...

“If a shoe had been designed from a woman’s foot, would I be running without getting the injuries?”: running footwear needs and preferences of recreational and competitive women runners across the ...

Menstrual cycle tracking is increasingly recognised as an important aspect of supporting female athletes. However, its application in football remains inconsistent and under-researched. This consensus ...

Objective This study aimed to describe and compare the epidemiological injury patterns at the World Taekwondo Championships (WTC) in 2017 Muju, 2019 Manchester and 2022 Guadalajara, with consideration ...

Acute finger and thumb injuries of the ligament and tendons are common. Indeed, a cross-sectional study in 2012 showed that they accounted for 38.4% of all upper extremity injury visits to the ...

Objectives To describe the prevalence, incidence and burden of injuries and illnesses, including their patterns (mechanisms, affected body parts/organ systems) across playing positions (wing, back, ...

In recent years, organised and competitive video gaming, esports, has gained enormous popularity in many parts of the world, contributing to the growing professionalisation of this sports branch. To ...

Background Diagnosis and recovery tracking of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is often challenging due to the lack of clear findings on routine imaging techniques. This also complicates defining ...

Injuries are recognised in sports and exercise medicine as not isolated incidents but complex outcomes. This is because an athlete’s health trajectory is understood to be shaped by dynamic, complex ...