Despite extensive use over 40 years, physical activity questionnaires still show limited reliability and validity. Measurements have value in indicating conditions where an increase in physical ...

Menopause is defined as the cessation of menses marked by 12 consecutive months without a period and it usually occurs between 45 and 56 years. The transition into menopause may occur over a long ...

1 Western Australia Centre for Health & Ageing (Centre for Medical Research) and, School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 2 Centre for Medical ...

Correspondence to Dr Avery D Faigenbaum, Dept of Health and Exercise Science, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 8628, USA; faigenba{at}tcnj.edu Despite the established benefits and WHO ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Pieter K. Bos, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box ...

3 Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Correspondence to Martin Hägglund, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Medical ...

Psychologically informed practice (PiP) is a whole-person approach to rehabilitation, integrating cognitive, behavioural and emotion-focused care into sports rehabilitation.1 At its core, PiP is about ...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of contact events in professional rugby union matches and to assess their propensity to cause injury. Design: The study was a ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, ...

Overuse injuries may represent as much of a problem as do acute injuries in many sports. This paper reviews key concepts related to the methodology for recording overuse symptoms. Results from the ...

Objectives: To examine the effects of a simple and inexpensive physical activity intervention on change in bone mass and structure in school aged children. Methods: Fifty one children (n = 23 boys and ...

Correspondence to Dr Cindy Chang, Orthopaedics; Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; cjchangsportsmd{at}gmail.com Several recent efforts have aimed to better identify ...