Dr R Ogai, Laboratory for Exercise Physiology and Biomechanics, Chukyo University Graduate School of Health and Sport Sciences, 101 Tokodachi, Kaizu-cho, Toyota, 470-0393 Aichi, Japan; rogyai{at}yahoo ...

Objective To examine the associations between the number of days per week achieving various daily step thresholds and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence in older women.

Correspondence to Professor Roald Bahr, Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, PB 4014 Ullevål Stadion, Oslo 0806, Norway; roald.bahr{at ...

Background The ‘jumper's knee paradox’, where symptomatic athletes appear to perform better in a counter movement jump (CMJ) compared to asymptomatic controls in previous case–control studies is not ...

Objectives To compare hospitalisation rates, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and mortality for patients with COVID-19 who were consistently inactive, doing some activity or consistently meeting ...

Correspondence to Dr Chris Beedie, Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales SY23 3UX, UK; chb44{at}aber.ac.uk Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) has had a good ...

Correspondence to Florian Giesche, Division of Preventive and Sports Medicine, Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, ...

Background—Several reports indicate that physical activity can reduce the severity of symptoms in depressed patients. Some data suggest that even a single exercise bout may result in a substantial ...

Aim/objective The objective of this study was to provide a meta-analysis examining the effects of football heading. Design Meta-analytical review on football heading effects on neurocognitive ...

Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Allyson M Pollock, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University ...

1 School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 Centre for ...

3 The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, Scotland, UK Objectives—To undertake a prospective epidemiological study of the ...