Objectives: To undertake a detailed, large scale epidemiological study of match injuries sustained by professional rugby union players in order to define their incidence, nature, severity, and causes.

Objectives—Commercially available football head protectors were tested to determine their impact energy attenuation performance and ability to reduce the likelihood of concussion. Methods—Prospective ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Joseph Baker, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada; bakerj{at}yorku.ca ...

1 Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia Background Psychological factors ...

Elite athletes are particularly susceptible to sleep inadequacies, characterised by habitual short sleep (<7 hours/night) and poor sleep quality (eg, sleep fragmentation). Athletic performance is ...

Objective: To conduct a detailed analysis of hamstring injuries sustained in English professional football over two competitive seasons. Methods: Club medical staff at 91 professional football clubs ...

Data sources Medline (Ovid), PubMed (complementary search), Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane (Wiley), SPORTDiscus (Ebsco) and Web of Science Core Collection (Thomson Reuters), from 1 January 1990 to 15 May ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Paddy C Dempsey, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK; Paddy.Dempsey{at}baker.edu.au ...

2 Research Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK 3 Research Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia ...