A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Eyewear in Reducing the Incidence and Severity of Eye Injuries in Racket Sports

James F.D. Mazarelo, Samantha L. Winter & Daniel T.P. Fong (2023) The Physician and Sports medicine, ahead of print   To assess what eyewear (if any) reduces eye injury incidence and severity in squash, racketball, tennis and badminton. Systematic review following the ‘Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses’ (PRISMA) and the ‘implementing Prisma in Exercise, Rehabilitation, Sport medicine and …

Menstrual cycle characteristics, perceived impact on performance, and barriers to communication: Perspectives of high‐performance adolescent athletes in Singapore.

Taim, B. C. et al. Scand. J. Med. Sci. Sports (2023) The purpose of this study was to examine the menstrual cycle (MC) characteristics, explore the impact on performance, and identify barriers to and facilitators of MC-related communication among high-performance female adolescent athletes in Singapore. Ninety athletes (15.4 ± 1.8 years) from multiple sports completed an online questionnaire. Eighty-four athletes were postmenarcheal (menarcheal …

The Fine-Tuning Approach for Training Monitoring

Boullosa, D. et al. Int. J. Sports Physiol. Perform. 1–6 (2023) Monitoring is a fundamental part of the training process to guarantee that the programmed training loads are executed by athletes and result in the intended adaptations and enhanced performance. A number of monitoring tools have emerged during the last century in sport. These tools capture different facets (eg, psychophysiological, physical, …

The Psychology of Athletic Tapering in Sport: A Scoping Review

Stone, M. J. et al. Sports Med 53, 777–801 (2023). Abstract Taper is a common training strategy used to reduce fatigue and enhance athletic performance. However, currently, no review has summarised what psychological research has been conducted examining taper, what this research shows and what future research needs to be undertaken to extend the field. Consequently, a scoping review was …

Benefits and barriers to physical activity among African women: A systematic review

Obit et al, Sports Medicine and Health Sciences, 5 (2023), 59-66. Black women have always been likened to being a less physically active group compared to women of other races/ ethnicity, with reports of a high prevalence of obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases among them. The purpose of this study is to examine the health benefits of physical activity on …

Direct and indirect impact of low energy availability on sports performance

Melin, A. K. et al. Scand J Med Sci Spor (2023) Abstract Low energy availability (LEA) occurs inadvertently and purposefully in many athletes across numerous sports; and well planned, supervised periods with moderate LEA can improve body composition and power to weight ratio possibly enhancing performance in some sports. LEA however has the potential to have negative effects on a …

Screening for pelvic floor symptoms in exercising women: a survey of 636 health and exercise professionals

Dakic et al, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 26 (2023) 80–86 ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aimed to establish health and exercise professionals’ (i) current practice of screening for pelvic floor (PF) symptoms in women within sports/exercise settings (ii) between-professional group differences in screening practice (iii) confidence and attitudes towards screening for PF symptoms and (iv) barrier/enablers towards engagement …

One fifth of patients with Achilles tendinopathy have symptoms after 10 years: A prospective cohort study

Lagas, I. F. et al. J Sport Sci 1–9 (2023) Abstract Patients with midportion Achilles tendinopathy (AT) are thought to experience a gradual symptomatic improvement over time. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate if patients with midportion AT have symptoms at 10-year follow-up. Patients with midportion AT were invited to complete an online questionnaire 10 years after …

AI did not write this manuscript, or did it? Can we trick the AI text detector into generated texts? The potential future of ChatGPT and AI in Sports & Exercise Medicine manuscript generation

Anderson N, Belavy DL, Perle SM, et al. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine 2023;9:e001568. Abstract Researching a topic and generating an academic paper is a nuanced skill. It can take months or years to produce and publish one, if it is ever published at all. What if there were a way to make this happen instantly? Artificial intelligence (AI) …

A Qualitative Study of 11 World-Class Team-Sport Athletes’ Experiences Answering Subjective Questionnaires: A Key Ingredient for ‘Visible’ Health and Performance Monitoring?

McCall, A. et al. Sports Med 1–16 (2023) Abstract Background Athlete monitoring trends appear to be favouring objective over subjective measures. One reason of potentially several is that subjective monitoring affords athletes to give dishonest responses. Indeed, athletes have never been systematically researched to understand why they are honest or not. Objective Because we do not know what motivates professional …