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 …

Efficacy of topical versus oral analgesic medication compared to a placebo in injured athletes: A systematic review with meta-analysis

Nudo, S., Jimenez‐Garcia, J. A. & Dover, G. Scand. J. Med. Sci. Sports 33, 1884–1900 (2023). Athletes are injured frequently and often take analgesic medication. Moreover, athletes commonly use non-prescription topical and oral medications with little guidance. Despite wide use, relatively few studies exist on the efficacy of pain medication in injured athletes compared to a placebo. Objective To determine …

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, …

Self-reported walking pace: A simple screening tool with lowest risk of all-cause mortality in those that ‘walk the talk’

Rowlands, A. V. et al. J. Sports Sci. 41, 333–341 (2023). To determine whether the association between self-reported walking pace and all-cause mortality (ACM) persists across categories of accelerometer-assessed physical activity status. Data from 93,709 UK Biobank participants were included. Physical activity was assessed using wrist-worn accelerometers for 7-days. Participants accumulating <150 min/week moderate-to-vigorous- activity were classed as “inactive”, ≥150 …

Can we evidence-base injury prevention and management in women’s football? A scoping review, Research in Sports Medicine

K Okholm Kryger, A Wang, R Mehta, Fm Impellizzeri, A Massey, M Harrison, R Glendinning & A McCall (2023) This review aimed, as part of a larger FIFA project aiming to steer women’s football research, to scope literature on any level of competitive football for women, to understand the current quantity of research on women’s football injuries. The study reviewed …

Do physical tests have a prognostic value in chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy?

C.F.L. Mulder, A.C. van der Vlist, M. van Middelkoop, et al., Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (in press) Objectives: To determine whether baseline physical tests have a prognostic value on patient-reported outcomes in Achilles tendinopathy. Design: Prospective cohort study, secondary analysis of data from a randomized trial. Methods: Patients with chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy performed a progressive calf …

Shoulder pain and injury risk factors in competitive swimmers: A systematic review

McKenzie A, Larequi S-A, Hams A, Headrick J, Whiteley R, Duhig S. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2023;00:1-17.   Aim To synthesize and assess the literature for shoulder pain and injury risk factors in competitive swimmers. Design Systematic review with best-evidence synthesis. Data Sources CINHAL, SportDiscus, Scorpus, PubMed, and Embase databases from 1966 to April 30 2022. Search and Inclusion …

Health Systems in High-Performance Sport: Key Functions to Protect Health and Optimize Performance in Elite Athletes

Drew, M. K. et al. Sports Med. 53, 1479–1489 (2023). Enabling athletes to achieve peak performances while also maintaining high levels of health is contextually complex. We aim to describe what a ‘health system’ is and apply the essential functions of stewardship, financing, provision of services and resource generation to an Australian high-performance sport context. We introduce a fifth function …