Background Groin injuries are common in sports, particularly multidirectional team sports, but incidence rates across sports other than football (soccer) have been poorly documented. Methods A ...

Objectives: To undertake a detailed, large scale epidemiological study of match injuries sustained by professional rugby union players in order to define their incidence, nature, severity, and causes.

Objectives To describe the reproductive, pelvic and breast health of retired elite Australian female athletes. Methods Data were collected as part of a larger online cross-sectional survey that was ...

Objectives—Commercially available football head protectors were tested to determine their impact energy attenuation performance and ability to reduce the likelihood of concussion. Methods—Prospective ...

Background: Cross-sectional studies have indicated that neurocognitive performance may be impaired among football players. Heading the ball has been suggested as the cause, but recent reviews state ...

Objective: To identify those risk factors that have the greatest impact on the incidence of head and neck injuries in international football. Method: A case–control study of players sustaining head ...

Objective: to determine the incidence, nature and causes of injuries sustained during the International Rugby Board (IRB) Rugby World Cup 2007. Design: Pospective, whole-population survey. Population: ...

2 School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Objectives—To determine the rate of ankle injury and examine risk factors of ankle injuries in mainly ...

Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Correspondence to: Dr Taunton, Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, University of British Columbia, ...

1 National Center for Fetal Medicine, Trondheim University Hospital (St Olav's Hospital), Trondheim, Norway 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Norwegian University of ...

Correspondence to Dr Joseph Baker, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada; bakerj{at}yorku.ca ...

4 University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport & Exercise, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 5 Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research, Queensland Academy of ...