1 Raymond Purves Research Laboratories, Kolling Institute (University of Sydney) at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia 2 Camden Veterinary Hospital, University of Sydney, Camden, Australia ...

Objective: To evaluate the reliability and validity of a brief physical activity assessment tool suitable for doctors to use to identify inactive patients in the primary care setting. Methods: ...

1 Academy for Physical Education, Technical University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Evert Verhagen, Department of Public and Occupational Health, ...

Objective: Given the therapeutic and non-therapeutic use of the tadalafil, (phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor, PDE-5i), we examined its effects on anaerobic performance indices. Methods: In total, 12 well ...

2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast BT12 6BJ, N Ireland Correspondence to: Dr Abernethy, A&E Department, The Ulster Hospital Dundonald, Belfast BT16 1 ...

Objective: To generate national representative data on the incidence, diagnosis, severity, and nature of medically treated sports injuries and to identify high risk groups. Methods: The first national ...

Background Paralympic sports are required to develop evidence-based systems that allocate athletes into ‘classes’ on the basis of the impact of their impairment on sport performance. However, sports ...

Correspondence to Dr Roger Hawkes, European Tour Performance Institute, European Tour, Wentworth Drive Virginia Water, Surrey GU25 4LX, UK; RAH{at}wkes.eu The extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) muscle plays ...

Objective Self-reports of physical activity (PA) have been the mainstay of measurement in most non-communicable disease (NCD) surveillance systems. To these, other measures are added to summate to a ...

Correspondence to Professor Jeremy Lewis, School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK; jeremy.lewis{at}LondonShoulderClinic.com What can we learn from the ...

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Background/aims There is a paucity of prospective cohort studies investigating the incidence of low back pain (LBP) in rowing. We investigated (1) the prevalence and incidence of LBP among ...