Objective To develop and evaluate a new patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) to assess people’s knowledge and beliefs about low back pain. Methods This study followed the COnsensus-based Standards ...

I want to monitor my athlete but where do I start? Given the relationships among athlete workloads, injury1 and performance,2 athlete monitoring has become critical in the high-performance sporting ...

Background Standing pelvic posture remains a common assessment in sports therapy. The palpation technique assessing the relative position of the anterior and posterior superior iliac spines is widely ...

Orthopaedic Department, University Hospital, Sart-Tilman, B-4000 Liége, Belgium Correspondence to: N Popovic, Orthopaedic Department, University Hospital, Sart ...

Despite extensive use over 40 years, physical activity questionnaires still show limited reliability and validity. Measurements have value in indicating conditions where an increase in physical ...

Correspondence to Alessio Bricca, Research Unit for Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, ...

Objectives To examine the correction of posture, increase in strength and decrease in shoulder pain and dysfunction in varsity swimmers. Design and Setting Randomised clinical trial. Participants ...

Correspondence to Dr Karsten Hollander, Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, University of Hamburg, Institute of Human Movement Science, Hamburg 20148, Germany; karsten.hollander{at}uni-hamburg ...

Iliotibial band friction syndrome is a common cause of knee pain in long distance runners. The pain is caused by friction of the iliotibial band over the lateral epicondyle of the femur. Two hundred ...

Correspondence to Dr Steven L Dischiavi, Department of Physical Therapy, High Point University, 1 University Parkway, High Point, NC 27268, USA; sdischia{at}highpoint.edu We present a new concept that ...

1 Human Performance Laboratory, University of California, Davis, California, USA Correspondence to: Dr Hawkins, One Shields Avenue, Room 275 Hickey Gym, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA ...

School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Griffith University Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to: T J Gabbett, School of Physiotherapy and Exercise ...