The impact of endurance exercise training on the heart has received significant research and clinical attention for well over a century. Despite this, many issues remain controversial and clinical ...

Background With England netball announcing that for the first time in its history it will be offering full time, professional contracts there is an increased need to be able to understand why players ...

Sport, Exercise and Health Science, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK Correspondence to: Dr Dyson Sport, Exercise and Health Science, University of Chichester, College Lane, Chichester PO19 6PE ...

Correspondence to Professor Peter B O'Sullivan, School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia; p.osullivan{at}curtin.edu ...

Correspondence to Nicholas Grubic, Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; nicholas.grubic{at}queensu.ca Contributors All authors contributed to the ...

2 Department of Family Practice (Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre) and School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3 Department of Physiotherapy, LaTrobe University ...

Objective: To demonstrate the utility of a practical measure of lean mass for monitoring changes in the body composition of athletes. Methods: Between 1999 and 2003 body mass and sum of seven ...

Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Correspondence to Dr John George, Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 ...

Background While injuries in football (soccer) have been the subject of numerous publications, little information is available about the injury risk in futsal. Objective Analysis of the incidence and ...

There are three major questions about return to play (RTP) after hamstring injuries: How should RTP be defined? Which medical criteria should support the RTP decision? And who should make the RTP ...

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

Objective Physical activity confers physical and psychosocial benefits for cancer patients and decreases morbidity and ...