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  1. Content type: Systematic Review

    Swimming-induced pulmonary oedema (SIPE) can affect people with no underlying health problems, but may be life threatening and is poorly understood. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesise the evid...

    Authors: Sarah Spencer, John Dickinson and Lindsay Forbes

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:43

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  2. Content type: Systematic Review

    Worldwide physical activity levels of adults are declining, which is associated with increased chronic disease risk. Wearables and smartphone applications offer new opportunities to change physical activity be...

    Authors: Roxanne Gal, Anne M. May, Elon J. van Overmeeren, Monique Simons and Evelyn M. Monninkhof

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:42

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  3. Content type: Original Research Article

    Injuries in association football (soccer) are debilitating for players and can also be detrimental to the success of a team or club. The type or condition of a playing surface has been empirically linked to in...

    Authors: Aimée C. Mears, Paul Osei-Owusu, Andy R. Harland, Alun Owen and Jonathan R. Roberts

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:40

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  4. Content type: Systematic Review

    There has been a rise in research into obesity prevention and treatment programmes in youth, including the effectiveness of resistance-based exercise. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the effec...

    Authors: Helen Collins, Samantha Fawkner, Josephine N. Booth and Audrey Duncan

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:41

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  6. Content type: Original Research Article

    Little evidence is available about how sports participation influences psychosocial health and quality of life in children and adolescents with a disability or chronic disease. Therefore, the aim of the curren...

    Authors: Saskia J. te Velde, Kristel Lankhorst, Maremka Zwinkels, Olaf Verschuren, Tim Takken and Janke de Groot

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:38

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  7. Content type: Review article

    Recently, four different operative techniques, referring to the primary anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair, were described. These are the dynamic intraligamentary stabilization (DIS) with Ligamys™, the Br...

    Authors: Michael-Alexander Malahias, Dimitrios Chytas, Kaori Nakamura, Vasileios Raoulis, Masashi Yokota and Vasileios S. Nikolaou

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:37

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  8. Content type: Systematic Review

    The current recommendations for resistance training (RT) frequency range from 2 to 5 days per week (days week− 1) depending on the subjects’ training status. However, the relationship between RT frequency and mus...

    Authors: Grant W. Ralston, Lon Kilgore, Frank B. Wyatt, Duncan Buchan and Julien S. Baker

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:36

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  9. Content type: Systematic Review

    Maternal metabolic health during the prenatal period is an established determinant of cardiometabolic disease risk. Many studies have focused on poor offspring outcomes after exposure to poor maternal health, ...

    Authors: Laetitia Guillemette, Jacqueline L. Hay, D. Scott Kehler, Naomi C. Hamm, Christopher Oldfield, Jonathan M. McGavock and Todd A. Duhamel

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:35

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  10. Content type: Review Article

    Practicing sport at the highest level is typically accompanied by several stressors and restrictions on personal life. Elite athletes’ lifestyle delivers a significant challenge to sleep, due to both the physi...

    Authors: Mathieu Nedelec, Anis Aloulou, François Duforez, Tim Meyer and Gregory Dupont

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:34

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  12. Content type: Original Research Article

    Core stability training has grown in popularity over 25 years, initially for back pain prevention or therapy. Subsequently, it developed as a mode of exercise training for health, fitness and sport. The scient...

    Authors: David R. Clark, Michael I. Lambert and Angus M. Hunter

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:32

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  13. Content type: Original Research Article

    While clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits of structured exercise for prostate cancer survivors, few attempts have been made to investigate and implement sustainable community-based exercise programs...

    Authors: Eik Dybboe Bjerre, Mette Leth, Nanna Maria Hammer and Julie Midtgaard

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:31

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  14. Content type: Original Research Article

    “Hitting the wall” (HTW) can be understood as a psychophysiological stress process characterised by (A) discrete and poignant onset, (B) dynamic interplay between physiological, affective, motivational, cognit...

    Authors: Andreas Venhorst, Dominic P. Micklewright and Timothy D. Noakes

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:30

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  15. Content type: Original Research Article

    Locomotor muscle fatigue (LMMF) and exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) are common conditions experienced during long-distance running due to the pooled effect of mechanical and metabolic strain on the locom...

    Authors: Andreas Venhorst, Dominic P. Micklewright and Timothy D. Noakes

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:29

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  16. Content type: Review Article

    It is important that players and coaches have access to objective information on soccer player’s physical status for team selection and training purposes. Physiological tests can provide this information. Phys...

    Authors: Monèm Jemni, Mohammad Shoaib Prince and Julien S. Baker

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:28

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  18. Content type: Original Research Article

    Foam rolling (FR) has been shown to alleviate some symptoms of exercise-induced muscle damage and has been suggested to increase range of motion (ROM) without negatively impacting strength. However, it is uncl...

    Authors: Lewis J. Macgregor, Malcolm M. Fairweather, Ryan M. Bennett and Angus M. Hunter

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:26

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  19. Content type: Systematic Review

    This review aims to (1) consolidate evidence regarding the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), (2) conduct a meta-analysis of the association between SES and CRF...

    Authors: Katherine J. Ombrellaro, Nita Perumal, Johannes Zeiher, Jens Hoebel, Till Ittermann, Ralf Ewert, Marcus Dörr, Thomas Keil, Gert B. M. Mensink and Jonas D. Finger

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:25

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  20. Content type: Review Article

    The study of human movement within sports biomechanics and rehabilitation settings has made considerable progress over recent decades. However, developing a motion analysis system that collects accurate kinema...

    Authors: Steffi L. Colyer, Murray Evans, Darren P. Cosker and Aki I. T. Salo

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:24

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  21. Content type: Original Research Article

    Previous research has established that general sleep screening questionnaires are not valid and reliable in an athlete population. The Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) was developed to address this...

    Authors: Amy M. Bender, Doug Lawson, Penny Werthner and Charles H. Samuels

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:23

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  22. Content type: Original Research Article

    Higher cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with lower morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The mechanisms for this are not fully understood. A more favourable cardio...

    Authors: Simon Nichols, Claire Taylor, Richard Page, Anna Kallvikbacka-Bennett, Fiona Nation, Toni Goodman, Andrew L. Clark, Sean Carroll and Lee Ingle

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:22

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  23. Content type: Current Opinion

    Analyses of talent development in sport have identified that skill can be enhanced through early and continued involvement in donor sports which share affordances (opportunities for action) with a performer’s ...

    Authors: Ben William Strafford, Pawel van der Steen, Keith Davids and Joseph Antony Stone

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:21

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  24. Content type: Original Research Article

    Sideline video review has been increasingly used to evaluate risk of concussive injury during match play of a number of collision sports, with the view to reducing the incidence of match play concussion injuri...

    Authors: Andrew J. Gardner, Ryan Kohler, Warren McDonald, Gordon W. Fuller, Ross Tucker and Michael Makdissi

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:20

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  25. Content type: Review Article

    Sickle cell trait has long been considered a benign condition but continues to be the leading cause of death in young African Americans in military basic training and civilian organized sports. There continues...

    Authors: Bruce L. Mitchell

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:19

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  27. Content type: Original Research Article

    In some sports such as rugby, a large body size is an advantage, and the desire to gain weight can bring young players to become overweight or obese. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of ove...

    Authors: Olivier Gavarry, Gregory Lentin, Patrick Pezery, Anne Delextrat, Guillaume Chaumet, Alain Boussuges and Julien Piscione

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:17

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  28. Content type: Original Research Article

    Self-determination theory (SDT) has been used to predict children’s physical activity and well-being. However, few school-based SDT intervention studies have been conducted, and no research exists with childre...

    Authors: Stephen Shannon, Deirdre Brennan, Donncha Hanna, Zoe Younger, Jessica Hassan and Gavin Breslin

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:16

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  29. Content type: Original Research Article

    Walking and running provide cyclical loading to the knee which is thought essential for joint health within a physiological window. However, exercising outside the physiological window, e.g. excessive cyclical...

    Authors: Jaqueline Lourdes Rios, Kevin Rudi Boldt, James William Mather, Ruth Anne Seerattan, David Arthur Hart and Walter Herzog

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:15

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  30. Content type: Original Research Article

    This randomized controlled trial explored the practicality and effectiveness of a novel tool-assisted self-help device, one that combines vibrational oscillation, leverage, and the shearing effect from the edg...

    Authors: Christopher-Marc Gordon, Sophie Manuela Lindner, Niels Birbaumer, Pedro Montoya, Rachel L. Ankney and Frank Andrasik

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:13

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  31. Content type: Original Research Article

    The physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms that govern diving, both self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) and breath-hold diving (BH-diving), are in large part well known, even if ther...

    Authors: Nicola Sponsiello, Danilo Cialoni, Massimo Pieri and Alessandro Marroni

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:14

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  32. Content type: Original Research Article

    In this study, the main hypothesis is that heavier people enjoy strength exercises more than normal-weight people, mediated by fat-free mass and muscle strength. Further, it is hypothesized that heavier people...

    Authors: Gill A. ten Hoor, Guy Plasqui, Annemie M. W. J. Schols and Gerjo Kok

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:12

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  33. Content type: Original Research Article

    The amount, quality, and timing of sleep are considered important for athletes’ ability to train, maximize training responses, and recover. However, some research has shown that elite athletes do not obtain su...

    Authors: Masako Hoshikawa, Sunao Uchida and Yuichi Hirano

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:10

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  34. Content type: Systematic Review

    CrossFit is recognized as one of the fastest growing high-intensity functional training modes in the world. However, scientific data regarding the practice of CrossFit is sparse. Therefore, the objective of th...

    Authors: João Gustavo Claudino, Tim J. Gabbett, Frank Bourgeois, Helton de Sá Souza, Rafael Chagas Miranda, Bruno Mezêncio, Rafael Soncin, Carlos Alberto Cardoso Filho, Martim Bottaro, Arnaldo Jose Hernandez, Alberto Carlos Amadio and Julio Cerca Serrão

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:11

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  35. Content type: Systematic Review

    A well-learned motor skill is characterized by the efficient activation of muscles that are involved in movement execution. However, it is unclear if practice-related changes in motor performance correlate wit...

    Authors: Dennis Brueckner, Rainer Kiss and Thomas Muehlbauer

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:9

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  36. Content type: Original Research Article

    Schedule-based and in-season factors (e.g., competition type) have been shown to be associated with symptom reporting patterns and injury severity in sport-related concussion (SRC). To determine if acute neuro...

    Authors: Benjamin L. Brett, Andrew W. Kuhn, Aaron M. Yengo-Kahn, Zachary Y. Kerr, Christopher M. Bonfield, Gary S. Solomon and Scott L. Zuckerman

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:8

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  37. Content type: Correction

    The original article [1] mistakenly omits a grant acknowledgement; thus, the authors would like to acknowledge that the original article was supported by FAPESP 2015/20082-7.

    Authors: P. A. M. Cavalcante, M. F. Gregnani, J. S. Henrique, F. H. Ornellas and R. C. Araújo

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:7

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    The original article was published in Sports Medicine - Open 2017 3:42

  38. Content type: Original Research Article

    Presently, there is no literature that examines the reasons for the cancellation of amateur or professional mixed martial arts (MMA) bouts. The purpose of this study was to review the circumstances that lead t...

    Authors: Gwynn Curran-Sills

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:6

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  40. Content type: Original Research Article

    This paper examines the occupational risk of concussion amongst professional and semi-professional footballers in Ireland during the 2014 League of Ireland season. As part of a broader nationally representativ...

    Authors: Nicola Coffey, Martin Lawless, Seamus Kelly and Conor Buggy

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:4

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  41. Content type: Original Research Article

    The outstanding performance of an elite athlete might be associated with changes in their blood metabolic profile. The aims of this study were to compare the blood metabolic profiles between moderate- and high...

    Authors: Fatima Al-Khelaifi, Ilhame Diboun, Francesco Donati, Francesco Botrè, Mohammed Alsayrafi, Costas Georgakopoulos, Karsten Suhre, Noha A. Yousri and Mohamed A. Elrayess

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:2

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  43. Content type: Original Research Article

    Immersion pulmonary edema is potentially a catastrophic condition; however, the pathophysiological mechanisms are ill-defined. This study assessed the individual and combined effects of exertion and negative p...

    Authors: Olivier Castagna, Jacques Regnard, Emmanuel Gempp, Pierre Louge, François Xavier Brocq, Bruno Schmid, Anne-Virginie Desruelle, Valentin Crunel, Adrien Maurin, Romain Chopard and David Hunter MacIver

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:1

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  44. Content type: Systematic Review

    Australian football (AF) players require endurance, strength, speed, and agility to be successful. Tests assessing physical characteristics are commonly used for talent identification; however, their ability t...

    Authors: Jade A. Z. Haycraft, Stephanie Kovalchik, David B. Pyne and Sam Robertson

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2017 3:46

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  45. Content type: Original Research Article

    Overtraining syndrome (OTS) results from excessive training load without adequate recovery and leads to decreased performance and fatigue. The pathophysiology of OTS in athletes is not fully understood, which ...

    Authors: Flavio A. Cadegiani and Claudio E. Kater

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2017 3:45

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  48. Content type: Systematic Review

    Only a few studies have addressed the relationship between toll-like receptors 2 and 4 (TLR2 and TLR4) and the production of local and systemic cytokines in response to physical exercise, and they have produce...

    Authors: Paula Andréa Malveira Cavalcante, Marcos Fernandes Gregnani, Jessica Salles Henrique, Fábio Henrique Ornellas and Ronaldo Carvalho Araújo

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2017 3:42

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Sports Medicine - Open 2018 4:7

  49. Content type: Original Research Article

    As a way to train at faster running speeds, add training volume, prevent injury, or rehabilitate after an injury, lower-body positive pressure treadmills (LBPPT) have become increasingly commonplace among athl...

    Authors: Kyle R. Barnes and Jessica N. Janecke

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2017 3:41

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  50. Content type: Original Research Article

    Isolation and long duration spaceflight are associated with musculoskeletal deconditioning. Mars500 was a unique, high-fidelity analogue of the psychological challenges of a 520-day manned mission to Mars. We ...

    Authors: Christopher J. Gaffney, Elena Fomina, Dennis Babich, Vladimir Kitov, Konstantin Uskov and David A. Green

    Citation: Sports Medicine - Open 2017 3:40

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