Running is very popular worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of people enjoying this activity every day.1 Significant ...

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 examine the propensity of tackle height and the number of tacklers that result in head acceleration events (HAEs) in elite-level male and female rugby tackles. Methods Instrumented ...

Background Obesity is a known risk factor for hypertension, but the extent to which physical activity mediates this relationship remains unclear. Methods Cross-sectional data from medical exams of ...

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 To identify characteristics of tackling, of being tackled and interactions between tackle characteristics that are associated with concussion. Methods A case-control study in male ...

Objectives Consequential interactions at the cleat-surface interface are associated with non-contact torsional injury mechanics, such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, in football. This ...

53 ‘Have we thrown the baby out with the bath water?’ A scoping review of the 32 summer olympic sports international federations’ pregnancy and postpartum policies and guidance ...

Physical activity is essential to a healthy lifestyle for adults with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Although exercise is recognised as an important tool for improving the well-being and independence of ...

Objectives Muscle function and size decline with age, but long-term effects of resistance training in older adults are largely unknown. Here, we explored the long-lasting (3 years) effects of 1 year ...

Elite student-athletes (SAs) in higher education (HE) have distinct mental health (MH) risks. The COVID-19 pandemic put pressure on systems and increased elite SA vulnerability to adverse MH outcomes.