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Epidemiology of sport-related concussions among middle- and high-school students in Japan: a nationwide analysis using insurance registry data

Objectives To explore the epidemiology, incidence and distribution of sports-related concussion (SRC) among middle- and high-school students from Japan sustained during extracurricular sports.Methods ...
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Musculoskeletal injuries in rock climbing: a scoping review

This scoping review examined the prevalence and characteristics of musculoskeletal injuries in rock climbing and identified ...
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Systematic review of acute physically active learning and classroom movement breaks on children’s physical activity, cognition, academic performance and classroom behaviour ...

Objective To examine the impact of acute classroom movement break (CMB) and physically active learning (PAL) interventions on physical activity (PA), cognition, academic performance and classroom ...
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Still poorly adopted in male professional football: but teams that used the Nordic Hamstring Exercise in team training had fewer hamstring injuries – a retrospective survey ...

Objectives The primary objective was to study the adoption of the NHE programme in European football teams in the 2020/21 season and to compare it to the previous study. A second objective was to ...
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Psychosocial stress factors, including the relationship with the coach, and their influence on acute and overuse injury risk in elite female football players

Background The relationship between specific types of stressors (eg, teammates, coach) and acute versus overuse injuries is not well understood. Objective To examine the roles of different types of ...
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Predicting lying, sitting, walking and running using Apple Watch and Fitbit data

Objectives This study’s objective was to examine whether commercial wearable devices could accurately predict lying, sitting and varying intensities of walking and running. Methods We recruited a ...
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Sex and gender considerations in low back pain clinical practice guidelines: a scoping review

Objective The purpose of this scoping review is to determine if and how sex and gender have been incorporated into low back pain (LBP) clinical practice guidelines (CPG), and if sex and gender terms ...
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38 (21B) Introducing novel, field-driven interdisciplinary program standards to accredit concussion rehabilitation programs

Purpose The use of interdisciplinary teams to address the needs of individuals with concussion has continued to increase with time and to date, no standards exist that are used to guide and accredit ...
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Leisure time physical activity and quality of life in medical students: results from a multicentre study

Background/aim We evaluated the association between leisure time physical activity (PA) and quality of life (QoL) in medical students. Our hypothesis was that there was a positive association between ...
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Concussion in European professional football: a view of team physicians

Objectives The objective was to explore the view and thoughts of physicians working in professional football about several aspects (eg, education and use of video footages) likely to enhance ...
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Sex-based comparison of the blood pressure, haemodynamic and cardiac autonomic adaptations following isometric exercise training in sedentary adults: a randomised controlled trial

Objectives We aimed to explore sex-specific differences in resting blood pressure (BP) reduction and associated cardiovascular adaptations following isometric exercise training (IET). Methods 100 ...
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Farewell to the old ways and an invitation to do better

As I step down as Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine (BOSEM), I find myself reflecting not only on the journal itself but also on the broader publishing environment in which we all ...