Objective To determine if the comparison of acute and chronic workload is associated with increased injury risk in elite cricket fast bowlers. Methods Data were collected from 28 fast bowlers who ...

Objective To determine the frequency and nature of injuries sustained during the IRB 2011 Rugby World Cup. Design A prospective, whole population survey. Population 615 international rugby players ...

Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO-Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr E A L M Verhagen, Department of Public and Occupational ...

Correspondence to Dr Noel Pollock, British Athletics Medical Team, Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, 60 Grove End Road, London NW8 9NH, UK; npollock{at}britishathletics.org.uk Background The British ...

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Objective To determine if any differences exist between the rolling averages and exponentially weighted moving averages (EWMA) models of acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR) calculation and subsequent ...

Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Allyson M Pollock, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University ...

1 School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 Centre for ...

In soccer one of the most common knee injuries is the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear, which usually occurs through non-contact mechanisms. Female soccer players are at higher risk of sustaining ...

2 School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Objectives—To determine the rate of ankle injury and examine risk factors of ankle injuries in mainly ...

Correspondence to Dr Zachary Orion Binney, Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University Oxford College, Oxford, Georgia, USA; zbinney{at}emory.edu Continuous data appear everywhere in sports ...

1 Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, Department of Family Practice and School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2 Department of Education Counselling ...