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Health wearable devices for weight and BMI reduction in individuals with overweight/obesity and chronic comorbidities: systematic review and network meta-analysis

Objective To analyse the comparative effectiveness of different health wearable-based physical activity (PA) promotion intervention strategies against each other and control for reducing body weight ...
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Ice-water immersion and delayed-onset muscle soreness: a randomised controlled trial

Objective: To determine if ice-water immersion after eccentric quadriceps exercise minimises the symptoms of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Design: A prospective randomised double-blind ...
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Injury history as a risk factor for incident injury in youth soccer

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Objectives: To determine if athletes with a ...
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Risk factors for sports injuries — a methodological approach

Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, University of Sport & Physical Education, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Professor Bahr, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, University of Sport & Physical ...
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Overuse injuries and burnout in youth sports: a position statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine

1 Division of Sports Medicine and Non-Operative Orthopaedics, Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and ...
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Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs): how should I interpret reports of measurement properties? A practical guide for clinicians and researchers who are not biostatisticians

1 Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Physiotherapy, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Frankston, ...
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Psychosocial factors associated with outcomes of sports injury rehabilitation in competitive athletes: a mixed studies systematic review

3 School of Sport, Health, and Social Sciences, Southampton Solent University, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dale Forsdyke, Applied Human Sciences Department, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, ...
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Guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period

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Incidence and clinical presentation of groin injuries in sub-elite male soccer

4 Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence to Dr Per Hölmich, Arthroscopic Center Amager, ...
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Back to basics: 10 facts every person should know about back pain

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Reframing return-to-sport postpartum: the 6 Rs framework

Female participation and professionalisation within sport is growing, leading to greater investment, competition and publicity. Despite this, there is a lack of female-specific research and frameworks ...
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McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy was slightly more effective than placebo for pain, but not for disability, in patients with chronic non-specific low back ...

Background The McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) is one of the exercise approaches recommended by low back pain (LBP) guidelines. We investigated the efficacy of MDT compared ...