Purpose The hippocampus, with its intricate wiring and thin blood-brain barrier, may be particularly vulnerable to sport-related concussion (SRC) and repetitive subconcussive impacts. This study ...

Introduction and Purpose Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) participated in phase 2 of the Active Hospitals Project. A number of work streams were created, summarised in figure 1. A ...

Injury prevention and performance optimisation in sports are evolving from generic strategies to more personalised, timely and data-informed approaches. Traditional systems often rely on infrequent ...

Purpose To examine pluralistic ignorance – the belief that peers’ views differ from one’s own – regarding concussion reporting among male professional rugby players in Major League Rugby (MLR).

Purpose This study evaluated the effects of Brainwave Entrainment (BWE) using the BrainTap headset and compression therapy (CT) with the NormaTec Pulse 2.0 Legs device as adjunct therapies for ...

Purpose Examine the influence of concussion history and current life stress on self-reported anxiety and depression in young adults. Methods This cross-sectional study included 75 young adults (70% ...

In recent years, organised and competitive video gaming, esports, has gained enormous popularity in many parts of the world, contributing to the growing professionalisation of this sports branch. To ...

Introduction and Purpose Several risk factors have been identified that alter risk of developing non-specific low back pain (LBP) in the general population. However, there is a lack of evidence around ...

Running is one of the most accessible and popular physical activities worldwide; however, injuries are the main barrier to ...

Purpose To assess the sleep health of former professional football players (fPFP) and associate sleep and neurodegeneration characteristics, including clinical symptoms and cortical tau deposition.

Introduction and Purpose Clinically anterior cruciate ligament injuries (ACLi) are poorly diagnosed and often missed. Knee laxity is one of the highest indicators for ACLi, yet clinically laxity is ...