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Retinal Screening in High-Performance Athletes: A Retrospective Analysis of Asymptomatic Peripheral Lesions in Collision and Non-Collision Sports

Authors: Nicolas Arej, Hervé Treguer, Chloé Le Cossec, Benjamin Kakona, Nicolas Mandrillon, Vivien Vasseur, Sébastien Le Garrec, Sylvain Blanchard, Sébastien Bruneau and Sophie Bonnin

Content type: Original Research Article 11 June 2025
Overlaps of Skeletal Muscle Fatigue and Skeletal Muscle Damage: The Muscle Injury Continuum

Authors: Carsten Schwiete, Christian Roth, Joachim Mester, Holger Broich and Michael Behringer

Content type: Review Article 10 June 2025
Effects of Acute Coordinative vs. Endurance Exercise on Cortisol Concentration in Healthy Women and Men

Authors: Henning Budde, Mirko Wegner, Christiane Ahrens, Bruna Velasques, Pedro Ribeiro, Sergio Machado, Thomas Gronwald, Sandra Amatriain-Fernández, Marcelle Schaffarczyk and Anett Mueller-Alcazar

Content type: Original Research Article 10 June 2025
Evaluation of Physical Activity, Sedentary Patterns, and Lifestyle Behavior in Spanish Preschool Children from the CORALS Cohort

Authors: Jose Manuel Jurado-Castro, Belén Pastor-Villaescusa, Cristina Castro-Collado, Mercedes Gil-Campos, Rosaura Leis, Nancy Babio, Luis A. Moreno, Santiago Navas-Carretero, Olga Portolés, Ana Moreira Echeverría, Maria Jose De La Torre-Aguilar, Rosaura Picáns-Leis, Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Pilar de Miguel-Etayo, Katherine Flores-Rojas, Rocío Vázquez-Cobela…

Content type: Original Research Article 9 June 2025
Comparative Efficacy of Different Exercise Therapies for Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-analysis

Authors: Xue Zhou, Yao Yang, Liwen Zhai, Jianing Gan, Conghui Li and Yi Zhu

Content type: Systematic Review 8 June 2025

The Training and Development of Elite Sprint Performance: an Integration of Scientific and Best Practice Literature

Authors: Thomas Haugen, Stephen Seiler, Øyvind Sandbakk and Espen Tønnessen

Content type: Review Article 21 November 2019
Mental Health In Elite Athletes: Increased Awareness Requires An Early Intervention Framework to Respond to Athlete Needs

Authors: Rosemary Purcell, Kate Gwyther and Simon M. Rice

Content type: Current Opinion 28 November 2019
The Training Characteristics of World-Class Distance Runners: An Integration of Scientific Literature and Results-Proven Practice

Authors: Thomas Haugen, Øyvind Sandbakk, Stephen Seiler and Espen Tønnessen

Content type: Review Article 1 April 2022
Running economy: measurement, norms, and determining factors

Authors: Kyle R Barnes and Andrew E Kilding

Content type: Review 27 March 2015
Falls and injuries to Polo players: risk perception, mitigation and risk factors

Authors: C M Inness and K L Morgan

Content type: Original Research Article 20 January 2015

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Sports Medicine - Open focuses on original research and definitive reviews in the field of sport and exercise medicine. The Journal includes medical and scientific research relating to:

Sporting performance enhancement including nutrition, equipment and training
Medical syndromes associated with sport and exercise
Injury prevention and treatment
Exercise for rehabilitation and health
The application of physiological and biomechanical principles to specific
sporting codes

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