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  1. Core exercise is often adopted as an adjunct in maintaining musculoskeletal health in rehabilitation; we previously showed that standing core rotational exercise improves femoral blood flow after training. Thi...

    Authors: Hsin-Fu Lin, Chun-Chung Chou, Hsiao-Han Chao, Soun-Cheng Wang and Chen-Huan Chen
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:194
  2. A flat foot is a common cause of chronic sports injuries and therefore many opportunities for arch support interventions exist. However, young athletes change their foot morphology due to developmental influen...

    Authors: Kohei Hikawa, Toshiharu Tsutsui, Takehiro Ueyama, Jin Yang, Yukina Hara and Suguru Torii
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:193
  3. Improving movement control might be a promising treatment goal during chronic non-specific low back pain (CLBP) rehabilitation. The objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of a single bout of game-bas...

    Authors: Juliane Mueller, Daniel Niederer, Sarah Tenberg, Lukas Oberheim, Alina Moesner and Steffen Mueller
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:192
  4. Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is safe and effective, evidence-based and implemented in national and international cardiac rehabilitation guidelines. Recent data show a decrease in cardiovascular mortal...

    Authors: Nina Tilgner, Dominik Nehls, Celine Lichtmess, Alexandra Kober, Cinja Küsel, Lisa Radloff and Lars Gabrys
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:191
  5. The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder and Elbow score (KJOC) is developed to evaluate the shoulder and elbow function in overhead athletes. To date, the score has not been adapted into Finnish language. ...

    Authors: Maria Sukanen, Jesse Pajari, Sami Äyrämö, Juha Paloneva, Benjamin Waller, Arja Häkkinen and Juhani Multanen
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:190
  6. Pain is part of the everyday life of professional dancers. It can indicate health risks and impair the ability to work. Suitable screening tools can be used to identify pain and its risk potential. A comprehen...

    Authors: Jasmin Haenel, Thomas Schoettker-Koeniger and Eileen M. Wanke
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:189
  7. The aim of this study was to analyze the within-week differences in external training intensity in different microcycles considering different playing positions in women elite volleyball players.

    Authors: Zeki Akyildiz, Henrique de Oliveira Castro, Erhan Çene, Lorenzo Laporta, Coskun Parim, Emre Altundag, Cengiz Akarçeşme, Giovanni Guidetti, Giovanni Miale, Ana Filipa Silva, Hadi Nobari and Filipe Manuel Clemente
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:188
  8. This study aimed to compare the stress tolerance, competitive anxiety, heart rate variability and salivary cortisol before and during successive futsal competitive matches (3 matches in 4 days) in young male f...

    Authors: Bruno Laerte Lopes Ribeiro, Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho, Raíssa Nóbrega Almeida, Gustavo Zampier dos Santos Lima, Leonardo de Sousa Fortes and Arnaldo Luis Mortatti
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:187
  9. Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease caused by acute respiratory syndrome that can negatively impact physical activity as well as mental health of people in the world. Since Iran is one of ...

    Authors: Esmaeel Saemi, Hadi Nobari, Georgian Badicu, Habibollah Ghazizadeh, Ali Pashabadi, Fatemeh Imani, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Ana Filipa Silva and Sana Afrash
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:186
  10. Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) consists of short exposure (up to 2–3 min) to dry air at cryogenic temperatures (up to -190 °C) and has recently been applied for muscle recovery after injury to reduce the inflamm...

    Authors: Valentina Selleri, Marco Mattioli, Domenico Lo Tartaro, Annamaria Paolini, Giada Zanini, Anna De Gaetano, Roberta D’Alisera, Laura Roli, Alessandra Melegari, Pasqualino Maietta, Ferdinando Tripi, Emanuele Guerra, Johanna Chester, Gustavo Savino, Tommaso Trenti, Andrea Cossarizza…
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:185
  11. Understanding common MRI findings may allow clinicians to appreciate the sport-specific effects on the lumbar spine, and to discern clinically significant pathology. Prevalence data regarding radiological abno...

    Authors: Sean Carmody, Gajan Rajeswaran, Adam Mitchell, Katrine Okholm Kryger, Imtiaz Ahmad, Munraj Gill and Alison Rushton
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:184
  12. Aqua Pilates and Aqua Stretch exercises are different and new methods for the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Aqua Stretch and Aqua Pilates interve...

    Authors: Farzaneh Gandomi, Parviz Soufivand, Mozhgan Ezati, Mehran Salimi, Shirin Assar, Mehran Pournazari and Homayoun Abbasi
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:183
  13. Core muscle endurance is essential for proper movement and lower extremity injury prevention. In addition, the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) score is a tool to assess body movement patterns to predict the r...

    Authors: Eiva Fallahasady, Nafise Rahmanloo, Foad Seidi, Reza Rajabi and Mohammad Bayattork
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:182
  14. Psychological disorders are common among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The effect of exercise training on psychological disorders like anxiety and depression has not been well studied in Ethiopia....

    Authors: Muluken Gebeyehu, Kessatie Legesse, Soumitra Mondal, Mahmud Abdulkadir, Zeru Bekelle and Alemayehu Molla
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:181
  15. To clarify does physical performance affect success in highest-level soccer, the purpose of the present study was to identify differences in technical-tactical performance (TP) between teams covering high and ...

    Authors: Toni Modric, James J. Malone, Sime Versic, Marcin Andrzejewski, Paweł Chmura, Marek Konefał, Patrik Drid and Damir Sekulic
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:179
  16. The decline in adropin over the aging process is associated with cardiometabolic risks, and resistance training may affect this decline. We hypothesized that elastic band resistance training (EBRT) would be an...

    Authors: Akbar Azamian Jazi, Esmaeil Moradi Sarteshnizi, Mahshid Fathi and Zahra Azamian Jazi
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:178
  17. Spinal unloading in microgravity is associated with stature increments, back pain, intervertebral disc (IVD) swelling and impaired spinal kinematics. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of latera...

    Authors: D. Marcos-Lorenzo, T. Frett, A. Gil-Martinez, M. Speer, J. Swanenburg and D. A. Green
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:177
  18. So far there is no study comparing two distinct exercise interventions in people with visual impairment. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of two exercise programs on health-related fitness, quality of ...

    Authors: Rafael B. P. da Silva, Eduardo L Caputo, Natan Feter and Felipe F Reichert
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:176
  19. In recent years, moderate physical activity has attracted the attention of experts and women as a way to cope with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Studies investigated the effects of exercise on PMS, but only a f...

    Authors: Rika Kawabe, Chang Yu Chen, Saori Morino, Kohei Mukaiyama, Yuki Shinohara, Masaya Kato, Hiroki Shimizu, Kanako Shimoura, Momoko Nagai-Tanima and Tomoki Aoyama
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:175
  20. The movement of targeted subjects can be calculated using the frame subtraction method. However, the validity of this evaluation method of dynamic postural stability has not been clarified yet. This study aime...

    Authors: Megumi Ota, Hiroshige Tateuchi, Takaya Hashiguchi, Karen Fujiwara, Ayano Sasaki, Kiseki Okumura and Noriaki Ichihashi
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:174
  21. During incremental exercise (Inc-Ex), the mean response time (MRT) of oxygen uptake (V̇O2) represents the time delay before changes in muscle V̇O2 reflect at the mouth level. MRT calculation by linear regression ...

    Authors: Kazuyuki Kominami and Masatoshi Akino
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:173
  22. Eating disorders (EDs) are an increasingly recognized concern in professional sports. Previous studies suggests that both female gender and endurance sports put athletes at risk. Female elite cyclists are henc...

    Authors: C Koppenburg, F Saxer, W Vach, D Lüchtenberg and A Goesele
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:172
  23. Authors: Callum J. McCaskie, Marc Sim, Robert U. Newton, Jarryd Heasman, Brent Rogalski and Nicolas H. Hart
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:171

    The original article was published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:168

  24. To verify (1) the association between classic and specific bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) with body composition, hydration, and physical performance in older adults with and without sarcopenia; (2...

    Authors: Ana Claudia Rossini-Venturini, Pedro Pugliesi Abdalla, Priscila Giacomo Fassini, André Pereira dos Santos, Márcio Fernando Tasinafo Junior, Thiago Cândido Alves, Euripedes Barsanulfo Gonçalves Gomide, Tatiane Lopes de Pontes, Karina Pfrimer, Eduardo Ferriolli, Jorge Mota, Maria Reyes Beltran-Valls and Dalmo Roberto Lopes Machado
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:170
  25. Few studies have considered the relationship between risk factors, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in people with heart disease. Here we examine the independent relationship of device-measured physic...

    Authors: Nicole Freene, Margaret McManus, Tarryn Mair, Ren Tan and Rachel Davey
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:169
  26. Physical demands and injury rates differ between elite female and male Australian Football (AF) players. To improve understanding of contributing physical factors to these differences, the purpose of this stud...

    Authors: Callum J. McCaskie, Marc Sim, Robert U. Newton, Jarryd Heasman, Brent Rogalski and Nicolas H. Hart
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:168

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:171

  27. Impaired quality of life (QOL) including reduced physical fitness is a recognized late effect of hemopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Guided exercise and mindfulness-based stress management (MBSM) programs ...

    Authors: David D. F. Ma, Kate Fennessy and David Kliman
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:167
  28. Temporal biomechanical and physiological responses to physical activity vary between individual hamstrings components as well as between exercises, suggesting that hamstring muscles operate differently, and ov...

    Authors: Eleftherios Kellis and Anthony J. Blazevich
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:166
  29. Water polo is unique among aquatic—and generally other—sports as it includes cyclic elements typical in swimming and acyclic elements occurring mainly in ball games. Moreover, water polo demands high level of ...

    Authors: Péter Fritz, Réka Fritz, Lívia Mayer, Boglárka Németh, Judit Ressinka, Pongrác Ács and Csilla Oláh
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:165
  30. Sports science research in elite female Gaelic team sports has increased in recent years, but still a large disparity exists between the volume of studies involving male and female players. As a consequence of...

    Authors: John David Duggan, Kieran Collins and Karen Keane
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:164
  31. Recently, a novel method for improving movement quality called open-ended augmented feedback has been introduced. However, the effects of using such feedback in a training intervention have not yet been examin...

    Authors: N. Stien, V. Andersen, G. H. Engelsrud, T. E. J. Solstad and A. H. Saeterbakken
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:163
  32. To investigate the functional status and recording the most common injuries of the upper limb in male Greek boxing squad in comparison to the general population.

    Authors: Vasileios Giannatos, Andreas Panagopoulos, Panagiotis Antzoulas, Savvas I. Giakoumakis, John Lakoumentas and Antonis Kouzelis
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:162
  33. Ballistic and heavy-resistance exercises may potentially enhance lower body power, which is paramount for the punching performance of amateur boxers. This study aimed to determine the acute effects of ballist...

    Authors: Wenjuan Yi, Chao Chen, Zixiang Zhou, Weijia Cui and Dexin Wang
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:161
  34. Jumping and specific multidirectional repeated sprint ability are important in basketball. The objective of this study was to assess the contributions of 8-week combined versus single-mode training programs ba...

    Authors: Seifeddine Brini, Daniel Boullosa, Julio Calleja-González, Daniel J. van den Hoek, Hadi Nobari and Filipe Manuel Clemente
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:160
  35. Due to the absence of evidence in the literature on Paralympic Powerlifting the present study investigated various methods to assess bench press maximum repetition and the way each method influences the measur...

    Authors: Felipe J. Aidar, Ciro José Brito, Dihogo Gama de Matos, Levy Anthony S. de Oliveira, Rapahel Fabrício de Souza, Paulo Francisco de Almeida-Neto, Breno Guilherme de Araújo Tinoco Cabral, Henrique P. Neiva, Frederico Ribeiro Neto, Victor Machado Reis, Daniel A. Marinho, Mário C. Marques, Filipe Manuel Clemente and Hadi Nobari
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:159
  36. This study aimed to examine the effects of two high-intensity interval training programs (HIIT) on maximal aerobic velocity (MAV), hematological variations and muscle damage markers in young healthy adults. Tw...

    Authors: Fatma Rhibi, Abderraouf Ben Abderrahman, Jacques Prioux, Cain C. T. Clark, Benoît Bideau, Sophia Besbes, Anthony C. Hackney, Urs Granacher and Hassane Zouhal
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:158
  37. Frequent dieting is common in athletes attempting to achieve a body composition perceived to improve performance. Excessive dieting may indicate disordered eating (DE) behaviors and can result in clinical eati...

    Authors: Austin J. Graybeal, Andreas Kreutzer, Jada L. Willis, Robyn Braun-Trocchio, Kamiah Moss and Meena Shah
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:157
  38. This study examined the contextual factors associated with psychological need satisfaction (PNS) and the predictability of the PNS components, together with the contextual factors, on the developmental outcome...

    Authors: Tefera Tadesse, Aemero Asmamaw, Sirak H/Mariam and Beshir Edo
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:156
  39. Knowledge regarding adherence is necessary to improve the specificity of exercise interventions during cancer treatment. We aimed to determine adherence to resistance and endurance training interventions in pa...

    Authors: Hannah L. Brooke, Anne-Sophie Mazzoni, Laurien M. Buffart, Sveinung Berntsen, Karin Nordin and Ingrid Demmelmaier
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:155
  40. Prior to exercise, a warm-up routine has been suggested to be an imperative factor in task readiness with the anticipation that it will enhance performance. One of the key benefits of a warm-up is the increase...

    Authors: Gavin Cowper, Stuart Goodall, Kirsty Hicks, Louise Burnie and Marc Briggs
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:154
  41. The aim of the study was to check the changes in the level of physical fitness and body composition after a directed training process in cadets—pilots, in relation to control group.

    Authors: Adam Prokopczyk and Zbigniew Wochyński
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:153
  42. 3 × 3 basketball games are characterized by high-intensity accelerations and decelerations, and a high number of changes of direction and jumps. It is played in tournament form with multiple games per day. The...

    Authors: C. Willberg, B. Wieland, L. Rettenmaier, M. Behringer and K. Zentgraf
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:152
  43. Research focuses heavily upon the effect of strength and power training on change of direction performance. The objective of this scoping review is to highlight alternative approaches to training change of dir...

    Authors: Robert Buhmann, Max Stuelcken and Mark Sayers
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:151
  44. The association of the reactive strength index (RSI) during single-limb vertical continuous jumps (SVCJs) with single-limb hop tests in athletes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) is unclea...

    Authors: Kenji Hirohata, Junya Aizawa, Takehiro Ohmi, Shunsuke Ohji, Sho Mitomo, Toshiyuki Ohara, Hideyuki Koga, Kazuyoshi Yagishita, Tetsuya Jinno and Atsushi Okawa
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:150
  45. A significant challenge that non-elite collegiate triathletes encounter during competition is the decline in running performance immediately after cycling. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine...

    Authors: J. A. Stewart, E. K. Merritt, D. E. Lidstone, J. M. McBride and K. A. Zwetsloot
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:149
  46. Popularity of rock climbing is steadily increasing. With its inclusion in the Olympic Games this will likely continue. Injuries from rock climbing are also increasing. The most common injury is to the flexor p...

    Authors: Robin Larsson, Lena Nordeman and Christina Blomdahl
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:148
  47. Both aerobic exercise and whey protein can improve glucose regulation. The purpose of this study was to investigate how a single bout of vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise and whey protein, independently, as ...

    Authors: Ryan A. Gordon, Emily L. Zumbro, Todd J. Castleberry, Matthew L. Sokoloski, Matthew F. Brisebois, Christopher J. Irvine, Anthony A. Duplanty and Vic Ben-Ezra
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:147
  48. The aim of this study was (i) provide reference data of metabolic power-based measures during professional football matches; and to (ii) analyze the between-position and between-halves differences of power-bas...

    Authors: Zeki Akyildiz, Erhan Çene, Coşkun Parim, Onat Çetin, Çağatay Turan, Yılmaz Yüksel, Rui Silva, Ana Filipa Silva and Hadi Nobari
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:146
  49. The aim of this study was to analyze incidences and sport-specific injury patterns among users of a bodyweight-based training method instructed by a smartphone app (Freeletics Bodyweight App).

    Authors: G. Hertel, A. Hochrein, C. Suren, P. Minzlaff, I. J. Banke, J. Willers, R. von Eisenhart-Rothe and P. M. Prodinger
    Citation: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022 14:145

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