Background The prime focus of research on sports injury has been on physical factors. This
is despite our understanding that when an athlete sustains an injury it has psychosocial as …

Female-specific research on sports science and sports medicine (SSSM) fails to mirror the
increase in participation and popularity of women's sport. Females have historically been …

New Findings What is the topic of this review? We review methodological considerations for
the inclusion of women in sex and menstrual cycle phase comparison studies. What …

Sex differences in exercise physiology, such as substrate metabolism and skeletal muscle
fatigability, stem from inherent biological factors, including endogenous hormones and …

Context: Overtraining syndrome (OTS) is a condition characterized by a long-term
performance decrement, which occurs after a persisting imbalance between training-related …

Objective: Arterial stiffness, namely pulse wave velocity (PWV), is an emerging biomarker in
the assessment of vascular health. This meta-analysis aims to determine the effects of …

Background The negative effect of mental fatigue (MF) on physical performance has recently
been questioned. One reason behind this could lie in the interindividual differences in MF …

Female athletes train and compete under the potential influence of hormonal fluctuations
during the menstrual cycle or during use of various hormonal contraceptives. Dysmenorrhea …

Background: In elite athletes, training individualization is widely recommended to optimize
competitive performance. Previous studies have evidenced the impact of hormonal …

Despite a decreasing gender gap in exercise participation, there still remains a significant
under-representation of women included in sport and exercise medicine research studies. 1 …