The number of athletes with disabilities participating in organized sports and the popularity
of the P aralympic G ames is steadily increasing around the world. Despite this growing …

Objective To investigate the effect of a structured warm-up programme designed to reduce
the incidence of knee and ankle injuries in young people participating in sports. Design …

Extreme loss of skeletal muscle mass (atrophy) occurs in human muscles that are not used.
In striking contrast, skeletal muscles do not rapidly waste away in hibernating mammals …

Objective Our aim was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the clinical presentation of
ankle syndesmosis injury and four common clinical diagnostic tests. Design Cross-sectional …

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognises the health and fitness benefits of
physical activity (PA) and sport as stated in recommendation# 51 from the Olympic …

Background: Muscle injuries are among the most common sports-related lesions in athletes;
however, optimal treatment remains obscure. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) …

Background: Rugby union will enter the Olympic arena as Rugby Sevens in 2016. Purpose:
To investigate the injury rate, injury type, and nature of injuries sustained in an amateur …

As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more comprehensive ways there are
increasing questions about how the'rights' and'wrongs' of technological use can be …

Introduction: Speech sound disorder is one of the most prevalent developmental
communication disorders affecting approximately 8.7 percent of school-age children …

The scientific and practical fields—especially high-performance sports—increasingly
request a stronger focus be placed on individual athletes in human movement science …