Objectives Physical inactivity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Cycling as a physical activity holds great potential to prevent CVD. We aimed to determine whether cycling reduces the ...

Correspondence to Dr Jackie L Whittaker, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; ...

Correspondence to Professor Malcolm Collins, Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, University of Cape Town, P.O. Box 115, Newlands 7725, South Africa; malcolm.collins{at}uct.ac.za Evidence ...

In the late 1980s, one of us (SNB) published a study that demonstrated that individuals with a low (below first quintile=20th percentile) cardiorespiratory fitness level had a higher risk of mortality ...

Correspondence to Dr Chad E Cook, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27516, USA; chad.cook{at}duke.edu Our first explanation is the most obvious one. Outcome measures that ...

Objective To compare physical activity (PA) over midlife between (1) former collegiate athletes and non-athletes and (2) among athletes in different sports. Methods The Harvard Alumni Health Study ...

Objective To establish the meaning of the term ‘adherence’ (including conceptual and measurement definitions) in the context of therapeutic exercise (TE) for musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. Design ...

Correspondence to Harvey M Galvin, Department of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, UK; harvey.galvin{at}gmail.com Well-trained academy rugby league and rugby union ...

1 Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington ...

Objective To investigate the association between sprint running biomechanics and sprint-related hamstring strain injury (HSI) in elite male football players. Methods This prospective cohort study ...

In 2013, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center Overuse Injury Questionnaire (OSTRC-O) was developed to record the magnitude, symptoms and consequences of overuse injuries in sport. Shortly afterwards ...

Correspondence to Professor Thomas Gronwald, Institute of Interdisciplinary Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg 20457, Germany; ...