Imagine being able to predict the weather next winter with 100% accuracy. Impossible,
right? Yet the belief that we can predict which athletes will get injured based on some form of …

What does sport injury risk have to do with weather forecasting and predicting who will be
the next President of the USA? Everything! The commonalities are that each occurs within a …

Many athletes, amateur and professional alike, compete in and train for outdoor running
events every year, and even more participate in outdoor sports in general. Many major sport …

Sports medicine clinicians are expected to make accurate diagnoses, estimate prognoses
and identify athletes at risk of sustaining an injury. 1 These complex decisions are …

Olympic athletes compete and train in diverse cold-weather environments, generally without
adverse effects. However, the nature of some sports may increase the risk of cold injuries …

Norway's Professor Roald Bahr recently highlighted that screening does not predict which
athlete will sustain an injury. 1 Some interpreted this to mean screening is useless for injury …

When dealing with small cohorts, as is typical in elite sport, the well-known fourstep
'sequence of prevention'described by van Mechelen et al 1 (figure 1) potentially represents a …

I wholeheartedly agree with Drs McCunn and Meyer1 that we should not demonise athlete
screening, nor should we abandon prospective cohort studies to improve our understanding …

Maintaining a healthy physically active lifestyle is a major contemporary public health issue.
1 However, regular participation in physical activity and sports increases the individual's …

Injuries sustained by participants in team sports place a considerable burden on medical
services, 1 2 and they often disrupt the lives of those injured. Evidence based strategies to …