British Journal of Sports Medicine modules

• A qualitative review of sports concussion education: prime time for evidence-based knowledge translation
• A review of the specificity of exercises designed for conditioning the lumbar extensors
• A systematic review of concussion in rugby league
• A systematic review of criteria used to define recovery from sport-related concussion in youth athletes
• A systematic review of prospective epidemiological research into injury and illness in Olympic combat sport
• A systematic review of shockwave therapies in soft tissue conditions: focusing on the evidence
• A systematic review of the effects of upper body warm-up on performance and injury
• A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of the effect of protein supplementation on resistance training-induced gains in muscle mass and strength in healthy adults
• Acute lateral ankle ligament injuries - in association with the BJSM
• Adductor injury in sport - in association with the BJSM
• Aerobic exercise ameliorates cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta analysis of randomised controlled trials
• After revision ACL reconstruction, who returns to sport? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• An updated systematic review of exercise studies in breast cancer survivors: attention to the principles of exercise training
• Anabolic agents: recent strategies for their detection and protection from inadvertent doping
• Architectural adaptations of muscle to training and injury: a narrative review outlining the contributions by fascicle length, pennation angle and muscle thickness
• Are all sport activities equal? A systematic review of how youth psychosocial experiences vary across differing sport activities
• Are brief interventions to increase physical activity cost-effective? A systematic review
• Are group-based physiotherapy exercise programmes as effective as individual physiotherapy exercise programmes for musculoskeletal conditions? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Association of psychological variables and outcome in tendinopathy: a systematic review
• Associations of occupational standing with musculoskeletal symptoms: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Athletic groin pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of surgical versus physical therapy rehabilitation outcomes
• Athletic groin pain: a systematic review of surgical diagnoses, investigations, and treatment
• Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) position statement: urinary tract infection in spinal cord injured athletes
• Barefoot running: an evaluation of current hypothesis, future research and clinical applications
• Biological variation in musculoskeletal injuries: current knowledge, future research and practical implications
• Blood pressure and hypertension in athletes: a systematic review
• Calf muscle strain injuries in sport: a systematic review of risk factors for injury
• Can ultrasound imaging predict the development of Achilles and patellar tendinopathy? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Can vestibular rehabilitation exercises help patients with concussion? A systematic review of efficacy, prescription and progression patterns
• Can we predict the outcome for people with patellofemoral pain? A systematic review on prognostic factors and treatment effect modifiers
• Cardiorespiratory fitness cut points to avoid cardiovascular disease risk in children and adolescents: what level of fitness should raise a red flag? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Cerebrovascular reactivity assessed by transcranial Doppler ultrasound in sport-related concussion: a systematic review
• Change in physical activity from adolescence to early adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies
• Characteristics of people with recurrent ankle sprains: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Chronic pain in the Achilles region - in association with the BJSM
• Citius, Altius, Fortius: beneficial effects of resistance training for young athletes
• Classification and grading of muscle injuries: a narrative review
• Clinical outcomes of a scapular-focused treatment in participants with subacromial pain syndrome: a systematic review
• Clinical use of objective measures of physical activity
• Clinician-friendly lower extremity physical performance measures in athletes: a systematic review of measurement properties and correlation with injury part 1—the tests for knee function including the hop tests
• Clinician-friendly lower extremity physical performance tests in athletes: a systematic review of measurement properties and correlation with injury. Part 2—the tests for the hip, thigh, foot, and ankle including the star excursion balance test
• Clinician-friendly physical performance tests in athletes part 3: a systematic review of measurement properties and correlations to injury for tests in the upper extremity
• Coach development programmes to improve interpersonal coach behaviours: a systematic review using the re-aim framework
• Complete inclusion of adaptive rowing only 1000 m ahead
• Complex systems approach for sports injuries: moving from risk factor identification to injury pattern recognition—narrative review and new concept
• Compression garments and recovery from exercise induced muscle damage: a meta-analysis
• Concurrent aerobic plus resistance exercise versus aerobic exercise alone to improve health outcomes in paediatric obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Concussion in youth rugby union and rugby league: a systematic review
• Conservative treatments for greater trochanteric pain syndrome: a systematic review
• Critical components of neuromuscular training to reduce ACL injury risk in female athletes: meta-regression analysis
• Current state of concussion prevention strategies: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective, controlled studies
• Detecting and developing youth athlete potential: different strokes for different folks are warranted
• Detection of peptidic erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in sport
• Determination and regulation of body composition in elite athletes
• Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests for the diagnosis of hip femoroacetabular impingement/labral tear: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests of the hip: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Diagnostic accuracy of the Ottawa Ankle and Midfoot Rules: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography, MRI and MR arthrography in the characterisation of rotator cuff disorders: a meta-analysis
• Dietary fat guidelines have no evidence base: where next for public health nutritional advice?
• Dietary supplements for treating osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Do runners who suffer injuries have higher vertical ground reaction forces than those who remain injury-free? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Does physical activity increase or decrease the risk of sickle cell disease complications?
• Does revision ACL reconstruction measure up to primary surgery? A meta-analysis comparing patient-reported and clinician-reported outcomes, and radiographic results
• Does sports participation (including level of performance and previous injury) increase risk of osteoarthritis? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Dose–response association of screen time-based sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents and depression: a meta-analysis of observational studies
• Eccentric training for prevention of hamstring injuries may depend on intervention compliance: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Effect of specific exercise-based football injury prevention programmes on the overall injury rate in football: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the FIFA 11 and 11+ programmes
• Effectiveness of conservative interventions including exercise, manual therapy and medical management in adults with shoulder impingement: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs
• Effectiveness of early compared with conservative rehabilitation for patients having rotator cuff repair surgery: an overview of systematic reviews
• Effectiveness of foot orthoses and shock-absorbing insoles for the prevention of injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Effectiveness of foot orthoses for the prevention of lower limb overuse injuries in naval recruits: a randomised controlled trial
• Effectiveness of physical therapy treatment of clearly defined subacromial pain: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
• Effects and dose–response relationships of resistance training on physical performance in youth athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Effects of exercise and manual therapy on pain associated with hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Efficacy of platelet-rich plasma injections in osteoarthritis of the knee: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Efficacy of rehabilitation (lengthening) exercises, platelet-rich plasma injections, and other conservative interventions in acute hamstring injuries: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
• Ethics of genetic testing and research in sport: a position statement from the Australian Institute of Sport
• Evaluating bone marrow oedema patterns in musculoskeletal injury
• Even low-dose of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity reduces mortality by 22% in adults aged >60 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Evidence from prospective cohort studies did not support the introduction of dietary fat guidelines in 1977 and 1983: a systematic review
• Evidence that supports the prescription of low-carbohydrate high-fat diets: a narrative review
• Evidence-based clinical practice update: practice guidelines for anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation based on a systematic review and multidisciplinary consensus
• Examination of acetabular labral tear: a continued diagnostic challenge
• Exercise as treatment for alcohol use disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis
• Exercise during pregnancy. A narrative review asking: what do we know?
• Exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee: a Cochrane systematic review
• Exercise improves quality of life in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
• Exercise interventions for weight management during pregnancy and up to 1 year postpartum among normal weight, overweight and obese women: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Exercise prescription for overhead athletes with shoulder pathology: a systematic review with best evidence synthesis
• Exercise prescription for patients with type 2 diabetes - a synthesis of international recommendations: narrative review
• Exercise therapy for functional capacity in chronic diseases: an overview of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials
• Exercise to prevent falls in older adults: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
• Exercise-associated DNA methylation change in skeletal muscle and the importance of imprinted genes: a bioinformatics meta-analysis
• Exercise-based management versus surgery for multidirectional instability of the glenohumeral joint: a systematic review
• Exercise-induced biochemical changes and their potential influence on cancer: a scientific review
• Exertional heat stroke - in association with the BJSM
• Facts and values: On the acceptability of risks in children’s sport, using the example of rugby. A narrative review
• Foot orthoses for plantar heel pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Gait modifications to change lower extremity gait biomechanics in runners: a systematic review
• Get a kick out of this: the spectrum of knee extensor mechanism injuries
• Glucocorticoids at the Olympic Games: state-of-the-art review
• Hamstring strength and flexibility after hamstring strain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Health benefits of different sport disciplines for adults: systematic review of observational and intervention studies with meta-analysis
• High intensity interval training in patients with lifestyle induced cardiometabolic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• High-intensity interval training for improving health-related fitness in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with plantar fasciopathy/‘plantar fasciitis’: systematic review and meta-analysis of various clinical and imaging risk factors
• How can we implement exercise therapy for patellofemoral pain if we don’t know what was prescribed? A systematic review
• How does academic achievement relate to cardiorespiratory fitness, self reported physical activity, and objectively reported physical activity: a systematic review in children and adolescents aged six to 18 years
• How reliable are Functional Movement Screening (FMS) scores? A systematic review of rater reliability
• Hypothesised mechanisms of swimming-related death: a systematic review
• Imaging services at the Paralympic Games London 2012: analysis of demand and distribution of workload
• Improving the accuracy of sports medicine surveillance: when is a subsequent event a new injury?
• Injection therapies for lateral epicondylalgia: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis
• Injection therapies for plantar fasciopathy ('plantar fasciitis'): a systematic review and network meta-analysis of 22 randomised controlled trials
• Injuries among weightlifters and powerlifters: a systematic review
• Injuries impair the chance of successful performance by sportspeople: a systematic review
• Injury and biomechanical perspectives on the rugby scrum: a review of the literature
• Injury risk and a tackle ban in youth Rugby Union: evaluating the evidence and searching for targeted, effective interventions
• Injury risk factors, screening tests and preventative strategies: a systematic review of the evidence that underpins the perceptions and practices of 44 football (soccer) teams from various premier leagues
• Interventions designed to reduce sedentary behaviours in young people: a review of reviews
• Interventions to increase adherence to therapeutic exercise in older adults with low back pain and/or hip/knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour in 0–5 year olds: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
• Interventions with potential to reduce sedentary time in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
• Intrinsic functional deficits associated with increased risk of ankle injuries: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Is body mass index associated with patellofemoral pain and patellofemoral osteoarthritis? A systematic review and meta-regression and analysis
• Is higher serum cholesterol associated with altered tendon structure or tendon pain? A systematic review
• Is iron treatment beneficial in, iron-deficient but non-anaemic (IDNA) endurance athletes? A meta-analysis
• Is subsequent lower limb injury associated with previous injury? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Is surgery effective for deep posterior compartment syndrome of the leg? A systematic review
• Is there an association between tendinopathy and diabetes mellitus? A systematic review with meta-analysis
• Is there evidence that walking groups have health benefits? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Isokinetic muscle strength and readiness to return to sport following ACL reconstruction: is there an association? A systematic review and a protocol recommendation
• Kinesio taping in musculoskeletal pain and disability that lasts for more than four weeks: is it time to peel off the tape and throw it out with the sweat? A systematic review with meta-analysis focused on pain and also methods of tape application
• Knee kinematics and joint moments during gait following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Lipids, adiposity and tendinopathy: is there a mechanistic link? Critical review
• Managing player load in professional rugby union: a review of current knowledge and practices
• Measurement of physical activity in older adult interventions: a systematic review
• Meta-analytical review of the effects of football heading
• Monitoring of biological markers indicative of doping: the athlete biological passport
• Monitoring the athlete training response: subjective self-reported measures Trump commonly used objective measures: a systematic review
• Neural representations and the cortical body matrix: implications for sports medicine and future directions
• New meniscal tears after anterior cruciate ligament injury: what is the risk? A systematic review protocol
• No evidence for the use of stem cell therapy for tendon disorders: a systematic review
• Older people’s perspectives on participation in physical activity: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative literature
• Olympic weightlifting training improves vertical jump height in sportspeople: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Pain in elite athletes - neurophysiological, biomechanical, and psychosocial considerations: a narrative review
• Pain, activities of daily living and sport function at different time points after hip arthroscopy in patients with femoroacetabular impingement: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Patellar instability: management and treatment - in association with the BJSM
• Patellar taping for patellofemoral pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate clinical outcomes and biomechanical mechanisms
• Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) questionnaires for young-aged to middle-aged adults with hip and groin disability: a systematic review of the clinimetric evidence
• Persistent effects of playing football and associated (subconcussive) head trauma on brain structure and function: a systematic review of the literature
• Personalising exercise recommendations for brain health: considerations and future directions
• Physical activity and exercise for erectile dysfunction: systematic review and meta-analysis
• Physical activity and exercise lower blood pressure in individuals with hypertension: narrative review of 27 RCTs
• Physical activity during pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
• Physical activity promotion in physiotherapy practice: a systematic scoping review of a decade of literature
• Physical examination tests for hip dysfunction and injury
• Physical impairments in symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: a systematic review of the evidence
• Physiotherapy for pain: a meta-epidemiological study of randomised trials
• Precooling and percooling (cooling during exercise) improve performance in the heat: a meta-analytical review
• Predicting sport and occupational lower extremity injury risk through movement quality screening: a systematic review
• Proximal muscle rehabilitation is effective for patellofemoral pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Psychosocial factors associated with outcomes of sports injury rehabilitation in competitive athletes: a mixed studies systematic review
• Qualitative review of hazing in collegiate and school sports: consequences from a lack of culture, knowledge and responsiveness
• Quality of life in anterior cruciate ligament-deficient individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Radiological findings in symphyseal and adductor-related groin pain in athletes: a critical review of the literature
• Recurrence and return to play after shoulder instability events in youth athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Red flag screening for low back pain - nothing to see here, move along: a narrative review
• Reporting accelerometer methods in physical activity intervention studies: a systematic review and recommendations for authors
• Resistance training interventions across the cancer control continuum: a systematic review of the implementation of resistance training principles
• Resistance training reduces systolic blood pressure in metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
• Return to play post-Achilles tendon rupture: a systematic review and meta-analysis of rate and measures of return to play
• Return to sport after hip surgery for femoroacetabular impingement: a systematic review
• Return to sport after open and microdiscectomy surgery versus conservative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the state of play
• Risk factors and successful interventions for cricket-related low back pain: a systematic review
• Risk factors associated with lower extremity stress fractures in runners: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Risk factors for groin injury in sport: an updated systematic review
• Risk factors for injury in sport climbing and bouldering: a systematic review of the literature
• Risk factors for medial tibial stress syndrome in physically active individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Risk factors for musculoskeletal injury in preprofessional dancers: a systematic review
• Risk factors for patellar tendinopathy: a systematic review of the literature
• Risk factors for sports concussion: an evidence-based systematic review
• Risk factors which predispose first-time traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations to recurrent instability in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Running retraining to treat lower limb injuries: a mixed-methods study of current evidence synthesised with expert opinion
• Running shoes and running injuries: mythbusting and a proposal for two new paradigms: ‘preferred movement path’ and ‘comfort filter’
• Scapular dyskinesis increases the risk of future shoulder pain by 43% in asymptomatic athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Sedentary behaviour and diet across the lifespan: an updated systematic review
• Sensory and motor deficits exist on the non-injured side of patients with unilateral tendon pain and disability, implications for central nervous system involvement: a systematic review with meta-analysis
• Should exercises be painful in the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Sports injury prevention in your pocket?! Prevention apps assessed against the available scientific evidence: a review
• Sports participation in non-compaction cardiomyopathy: a systematic review
• Sports related extensor carpi ulnaris pathology: a review of functional anatomy, sports injury, and management
• Strategic Assessment of Risk and Risk Tolerance (StARRT) framework for return-to-play decision-making
• Strong evidence against platelet rich plasma injections for chronic lateral epicondylar tendinopathy: a qualitative systematic review
• Structured exercise improves mobility after hip fracture: a meta-analysis with meta-regression
• Study quality on groin injury management remains low: a systematic review on treatment of groin pain in athletes
• Sugar addiction: is it real? A narrative review
• Surgical versus conservative treatment of high risk stress fractures of the lower leg (anterior tibial cortex, Navicular and 5th metatarsal base): a systematic review
• Systematic review of rugby injuries in children and adolescents under 21 years
• Tendon neuroplastic training: changing the way we think about tendon rehabilitation
• The dose–response effect of physical activity on cancer mortality: findings from 71 prospective cohort studies
• The effect of cooling prior to and during exercise on exercise performance and capacity in the heat: a meta-analysis
• The effect of Tai Chi on four chronic conditions—cancer, osteoarthritis, heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analyses
• The effectiveness of after-school interventions at increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels in 5–18 year olds: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
• The effectiveness of extracorporeal shockwave therapy in common lower limb conditions – a systematic review including quantification of patient-rated pain reduction
• The effects of shoe-worn insoles on gait biomechanics in people with knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• The efficacy of manual joint mobilisation/ manipulation in treatment of lateral ankle sprains: a systematic review
• The epidemiology of groin injury in senior football: a systematic review of prospective studies
• The foot core system: a new paradigm for understanding intrinsic foot muscle function
• The impact of physical activity on health related fitness and quality of life for patients with head and neck cancer: a systematic review
• The incidence of concussion in youth sports: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• The non-physical features of patellofemoral pain: a systematic review
• The prevalence of radiographic and magnetic resonance imaging-defined patellofemoral osteoarthritis and structural pathology: a systematic review and meta- analysis
• The relationships between golf and health: a scoping review
• The reliability of specific physical examination tests for the diagnosis of shoulder pathologies: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• The story behind meldonium–from pharmacology to performance enhancement: a narrative review
• The training injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder?
• Therapeutic interventions for acute hamstring injuries: a systematic review
• Therapeutic interventions for improving self-reported function in patients with chronic ankle instability: a systematic review
• Thoracic injuries in professional rugby players: mechanisms of injury and imaging characteristics
• Towards a three-dimensional framework of centrally-regulated and goal-directed exercise behaviour: a narrative review
• Training volume and soft tissue injury in professional and non-professional rugby union players: a systematic review
• Treatment and prevention of acute and recurrent ankle sprain: an overview of systematic reviews with meta-analysis
• Ultrasound-guided hip joint injections are more accurate than landmark-guided injections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Ultrasound-guided shoulder girdle injections are more accurate and more effective than landmark-guided injections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Urinary incontinence in physically active women and female athletes: a review
• Users guide for concussion road warriors: a systematic review of smartphone and tablet applications for the assessment of a sports concussion
• Variables associated with return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review
• What is the association between sedentary behaviour and cognitive function? A systematic review
• What is the difference in concussion management in children as compared to adults? A systematic review
• What is the effect of health coaching on physical activity participation in people aged 60 years and over? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
• Which determinants predict tibiofemoral and patellofemoral osteoarthritis after anterior cruciate ligament injury? A systematic review
• Which exercise prescriptions improve quality of life and physical function in patients with cancer during and following treatment? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
• β-alanine supplementation to improve exercise capacity and performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis