Physical Therapy in Sport

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Limb symmetry index on a functional test battery improves between one and five years after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, primarily due to worsening contralateral limb function	49
Does lower-limb asymmetry increase injury risk in sport? A systematic review	47
Validity and reliability of a smartphone motion analysis app for lower limb kinematics during treadmill running	31
Many physiotherapists lack preparedness to prescribe physical activity and exercise to people with musculoskeletal pain: A multi-national survey	30
An investigation into the role of gluteal muscle strength and EMG activity in controlling HIP and knee motion during landing tasks	28
Strength, rate of force development, power and reactive strength in adult male athletic populations post anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction - A systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Exercise-induced hypoalgesia and pain reduction following blood flow restriction: A brief review	27
An injury audit in high-level male youth soccer players from English, Spanish, Uruguayan and Brazilian academies	27
Y-Balance Test Asymmetry and Frontal Plane Knee Projection Angle During Single-leg squat as Predictors of Patellofemoral Pain in Male Military Recruits	24
Chaos and confusion with confidence: Managing fear of Re-Injury after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	23
The effectiveness of real-time haptic feedback gait retraining for reducing resultant tibial acceleration with runners	23
The effect of ankle Kinesio™ taping on ankle joint biomechanics during unilateral balance status among collegiate athletes with chronic ankle sprain	22
Validity and reliability of 2-dimensional trunk, hip, and knee frontal plane kinematics during single-leg squat, drop jump, and single-leg hop in females with patellofemoral pain	22
Short-term and long-term effects of ankle joint taping and bandaging on balance, proprioception and vertical jump among volleyball players with chronic ankle instability	21
Heat and cold therapy reduce pain in patients with delayed onset muscle soreness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 32 randomized controlled trials	20
Does blood flow restriction training enhance clinical outcomes in knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Self-reported jumpers’ knee is common in elite basketball athletes – But is it all patellar tendinopathy?	18
Effects of successive judo matches on interlimb asymmetry and bilateral deficit	18
Reliability and validity of a return to sports testing battery for the shoulder	18
Can we measure perceptual-cognitive function during athletic movement? A framework for and reliability of a sports-related testing battery	18
Landing instructions focused on pelvic and trunk lateral tilt decrease the knee abduction moment during a single-leg drop vertical jump	17
Adolescent psychological beliefs, but not parent beliefs, associated with pain and function in adolescents with patellofemoral pain	17
Physical therapy for tendinopathy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	17
Evaluation isometric and isokinetic of trunk flexor and extensor muscles with isokinetic dynamometer: A systematic review	16
Inertial flywheel vs heavy slow resistance training among athletes with patellar tendinopathy: A randomised trial	16

The implementation of resistance training principles in exercise interventions for lower limb tendinopathy: A systematic review	16
A systematic review on conservative treatment options for OSGOOD-Schlatter disease	15
Stiffness of the iliotibial band and associated muscles in runner’s knee: Assessing the effects of physiotherapy through ultrasound shear wave elastography	15
Dynamic reach deficits in those with chronic ankle instability: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
The role of core stability in the development of non-contact acute lower extremity injuries in an athletic population: A prospective study	14
Injury surveillance and prevention practices across Rugby schools in Ireland	14
The effectiveness of mobilization with movement on pain, balance and function following acute and sub acute inversion ankle sprain – A randomized, placebo controlled trial	14
Postoperative rehabilitation and outcomes following arthroscopic isolated meniscus repairs: A systematic review	14
Early aerobic exercise among adolescents at moderate/high risk for persistent post-concussion symptoms: A pilot randomized clinical trial	14
Utility of the anterior reach Y-BALANCE test as an injury risk screening tool in elite male youth soccer players	14
Field-based evaluation of hip adductor and abductor strength in professional male ice hockey players: Reference values and influencing factors	13
Is markerless, smart phone recorded two-dimensional video a clinically useful measure of relevant lower limb kinematics in runners with patellofemoral pain? A validity and reliability study	13
Assessing the concurrent validity and reliability of an iPhone application for the measurement of range of motion and joint position sense in knee and ankle joints of young adults	13
Persistent knee flexor strength deficits identified through the NordBord eccentric test not seen with “gold standard” isokinetic concentric testing during the first year after anterior cruciate ligame	13
Patients and clinicians managing patellofemoral pain should not rely on general web-based information	12
Age, rehabilitation and surgery characteristics are re-injury risk factors for adolescents following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	12
Comparison of blood flow restriction devices and their effect on quadriceps muscle activation	12
Does isometric exercise result in exercise induced hypoalgesia in people with local musculoskeletal pain? A systematic review	12
Thirty-seven jump-landing biomechanical variables are associated with asymptomatic patellar tendon abnormality and patellar tendinopathy: A systematic review	12
Muscle recruitment during plyometric exercises in overhead athletes with and without shoulder pain	12
Injury surveillance of an Australian community netball club	12
Neuromuscular control of the ankle during pre-landing in athletes with chronic ankle instability: Insights from statistical parametric mapping and muscle co-contraction analysis	12
The effects of stroboscopic balance training on cortical activities in athletes with chronic ankle instability	12
Reliability and validity of eccentric strength measurement of the shoulder abductor muscles using a hand-held dynamometer	12
One in four trail running race entrants sustained an injury in the 12 months training preceding the 2019 SkyRun race	11
Epidemiology, clinical characteristics and severity of gradual onset injuries in recreational road cyclists: A cross-sectional study in 21,824 cyclists - SAFER XIII	11
Anatomical risk factors of lateral ankle sprain in adolescent athletes: A prospective cohort study	11
Interaction of foot and hip factors identifies Achilles tendinopathy occurrence in recreational runners	11
Effect of chronic ankle instability on lower extremity kinematics, dynamic postural stability, and muscle activity during unilateral jump-landing tasks: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Conservative treatment of iliotibial band syndrome in runners: Are we targeting the right goals?	11
Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests assessing ligamentous injury of the ankle syndesmosis: A systematic review with meta-analysis	11
Concussion reporting, knowledge and attitudes in Irish amateur gaelic games athletes	11
Sprinting and hamstring strain injury: Beliefs and practices of professional physical performance coaches in Australian football	11
Judokas with low back pain have lower flexibility of the hip-spine complex: A case-control study	11
Effectiveness of cryotherapy on pain intensity, swelling, range of motion, function and recurrence in acute ankle sprain: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	11
Relationship between lower limb EMG activity and knee frontal plane projection angle during a single-legged drop jump	11
Disability, kinesiophobia, perceived stress, and pain are not associated with trunk muscle strength or aerobic capacity in chronic nonspecific low back pain	11
Injuries in Irish male and female collegiate athletes	11
History of chronic disease is a novel intrinsic risk factor associated with gradual onset injuries in recreational road cyclists: A cross-sectional study in 21,824 cyclists - SAFER XIV	11
Association between pre-participation characteristics and risk of injury amongst pre-professional dancers	10
Patient function in serial assessments throughout the post-ACL reconstruction progression	10
Patient expectations and perceived social support related to return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in adolescent athletes	10
Low back pain among Italian runners: A cross-sectional survey	10
Extended reality in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and injury prevention - A systematic review	10
Psychological factors during rehabilitation of patients with Achilles or patellar tendinopathy: a cross-sectional study	10
Integrating neurocognitive challenges into injury prevention training: A clinical commentary	10
The concurrent validity and intrarater reliability of a hand-held dynamometer for the assessment of neck strength in semi-professional rugby union players	10
Rehabilitation strategies of Flemish physical therapists before and after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: An online survey	10
Short-term effects of a trunk modification program on patellofemoral joint stress in asymptomatic runners	10
Anteromedial versus posterolateral hip musculature strengthening with dose-controlled in women with patellofemoral pain: A randomized controlled trial	10

Characterizing body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, and physical activity in women with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	10
Relationships between physical capacities and biomechanical variables during movement tasks in athletic populations following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	10
Eccentric, but not concentric blood flow restriction resistance training increases muscle strength in the untrained limb	9
The relationship between training load and pain, injury and illness in competitive swimming: A systematic review	9
Biomechanical quantification of deadbug bridging performance in competitive alpine skiers: Reliability, reference values, and associations with skiing performance and back overuse complaints	9
Nearly 40% of adolescent athletes report anterior knee pain regardless of maturation status, age, sex or sport played	9
Living well (or not) with patellofemoral pain: A qualitative study	9
Clinical implications of Landing Error Scoring System calculation methods	9
Injuries and associated risk factors of the shoulder and elbow among adolescent baseball pitchers: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
The psychological readiness to return to sports of patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction preoperatively and 6 months postoperatively	9
Low proportion of skeletally immature patients met return-to-sports criteria at 7 Months following ACL reconstruction	9
Current perspectives and clinical practice of physiotherapists on assessment, rehabilitation, and return to sport criteria after anterior cruciate ligament injury and reconstruction. An online survey	9
Low correlation between functional performance and patient reported outcome measures in individuals with non-surgically treated ACL injury	9
Insufficient knowledge and inapproriate physiotherapy management of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) in lightweight rowers	9
Injuries and physical characteristics affecting swimmer participation in the Olympics: A prospective survey	9
Clinical utility of measuring the size of the lumbar multifidus and quadratus lumborum muscles in the Australian football league setting: A prospective cohort study	9
Why are female soccer players experiencing a concussion more often than their male counterparts? A scoping review	9
The measurement of neck strength: A guide for sports medicine clinicians	9
Is there association between cutting and jump-landing movement quality in semi-professional football players? Implications for ACL injury risk screening	9
Injuries during transition periods across the year in pre-professional and professional ballet and contemporary dancers: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Decreased ankle and hip isometric peak torque in young and middle-aged adults with chronic ankle instability	9
Does ankle tape improve proprioception acuity immediately after application and following a netball session? A randomised controlled trial	9
Implementation of In vivo exposure therapy to decrease injury-related fear in females with a history of ACL-Reconstruction: A pilot study	9
The prevalence of chronic ankle instability and its relationship to foot arch characteristics in female collegiate athletes	9
Patterns of video-based motion analysis use among sports physical therapists	9
Patellofemoral joint loading during the forward and backward lunge	9
The epidemiology of injuries in English professional squash; A retrospective analysis between 2004 and 2015	8
Current perspectives of New Zealand physiotherapists on rehabilitation and return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A survey	8
Ultrasound imaging features of the Achilles tendon in dancers. Is there a correlation between the imaging and clinical findings? A cross-sectional study	8
Knee biomechanics while navigating steps in participants with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, between 2 and 10 years following surgery	8
Feasibility, correlates, and validity of the one-leg sit-to-stand test in individuals following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	8
The effectiveness of preoperative exercise programmes on quadriceps strength prior to and following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction: A systematic review	8
Intra- and interrater reliability of subjective assessment of the drop vertical jump and tuck jump in youth athletes	8
Individuals with chronic ankle instability exhibit altered ankle kinematics and neuromuscular control compared to copers during inversion single-leg landing	8
Rehabilitation outcomes and parameters of blood flow restriction training in ACL injury: A scoping review	8
Post-match recovery of eccentric knee flexor strength in male professional football players	8
Lower-limb injury in elite Australian football: A narrative review of kinanthropometric and physical risk factors	8
No relationship between the nordic hamstring and two different isometric strength tests to assess hamstring muscle strength in professional soccer players	8
Proximal hamstring tendinopathy; expert physiotherapists’ perspectives on diagnosis, management and prevention	8
Sports injury prevention programmes from the sports physical therapist's perspective: An international expert Delphi approach	8
Subclassification of recreational runners with a running-related injury based on running kinematics evaluated with marker-based two-dimensional video analysis	8
Injury-related psychological distress and the association with perceived running ability in injured runners	8
Physical therapy interventions for the treatment of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS): Systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Limb occlusion pressure for blood flow restricted exercise: Variability and relations with participant characteristics	8
Association of lower extremity injuries and injury mechanism with previous concussion history in adolescent athletes	8
Limb differences in hamstring muscle function and morphology after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	8
Short and long lever adductor squeeze strength values in 100 elite youth soccer players: Does age and previous groin pain matter?	8
Rehabilitation characteristics and patient barriers to and facilitators of ACL reconstruction rehabilitation: A cross-sectional survey	8
Prevalence and characteristics of chronic ankle instability and copers identified by the criteria for research and clinical practice in collegiate athletes	8
Participant characteristics are poorly reported in exercise trials in tendinopathy: A systematic review	8
The effect of running on knee joint cartilage: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Football players with long standing hip and groin pain display deficits in functional task performance	8
Reproducibility and discriminant validity of the Posterior Shoulder Endurance Test in healthy and painful populations	7
Low knee-related quality of life and persistent physical asymmetries in participants up to 10 years post-ACL reconstruction – A cross-sectional study	7
Relationship between lumbopelvic-hip complex stability, muscle activity, and 2-dimensional kinematics of the trunk and lower extremity	7
The incidence of injury in male field hockey players: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Pericapsular hip muscle activity in people with and without femoroacetabular impingement. A comparison in dynamic tasks	7
Comparison of some intrinsic risk factors of shoulder injury in three phases of menstrual cycle in collegiate female athletes	7
The British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification grading system as a predictor of return to play following hamstrings injury in professional football players	7
Does a history of youth sport-related knee injury still impact accelerometer-measured levels of physical activity after 3–12 years?	7
Effectiveness of conservative therapy in tendinopathy-related shoulder pain: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	7
The use of wearable technology as an assessment tool to identify between-limb differences during functional tasks following ACL reconstruction. A scoping review	7
Intrinsic foot muscle size and quality in a single leg weight bearing position across foot posture types in individuals with Patellofemoral Pain compared to healthy	7
Injury epidemiology in pre-professional ballet dancers: A 5-year prospective cohort study	7
Early knee status affects self-reported knee function 1 year after non-surgically treated anterior cruciate ligament injury	7
Eccentric hamstring strength in elite track and field athletes on the British Athletics world class performance program	7
Development of supine and standing knee joint position sense tests	7
Assessment of pelvic floor muscles in sportswomen: Quality of life and related factors	7
Objectively quantified lower limb strength recovery in people treated surgically or non-surgically after patellar dislocation: A systematic review	7
Development of a short and effective shoulder external rotation strength program in handball: A delphi study	7
A new method for assessing landing kinematics in non-laboratory settings	7
Lower-limb motor-performance asymmetries in English community-level female field hockey players: Implications for knee and ankle injury prevention	7
Drill design using the ’control-chaos continuum’: Blending science and art during return to sport following knee injury in elite football	7
Acute effects of myofascial induction technique in plantar fascia complex in patients with myofascial pain syndrome on postural sway and plantar pressures: A quasi-experimental study	7
Correlation between upper limb function and clinical measures of shoulder and trunk mobility and strength in overhead athletes with shoulder pain	7
Normative data for hip strength, flexibility and stiffness in male soccer athletes and effect of age and limb dominance	7
International survey of training load monitoring practices in competitive swimming: How, what and why not?	7
The shoulder endurance test (SET): A reliability and validity and comparison study on healthy overhead athletes and sedentary adults	7
Normal values for hip muscle strength and range of motion in elite, sub-elite and amateur male field hockey players	6
The effects of gluteus medius and tibialis anterior kinesio taping on postural control, knee kinematics, and knee proprioception in female athletes with dynamic knee valgus	6

Running coaches and running group leaders’ engagement with, and beliefs and perceived barriers to prehabilitation and injury prevention strategies for runners	6
Joint hypermobility and musculoskeletal injuries in a university-aged population	6
Ultrasound imaging evaluation of structural and textural features in asymptomatic achilles tendons in pre-professional dancers: A cross-sectional study	6
A prospective study of sport injuries in youth females	6
Applicability of cutoff scores of Chinese Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool and Foot and Ankle Ability Measure as inclusion criteria for study of chronic ankle instability in Chinese individuals	6
The effect of swimming volume and intensity on changes in supraspinatus tendon thickness	6
Sleep in Paralympic athletes and its relationship with injuries and illnesses	6
Depression levels and symptoms in athletes with chronic gastrocnemius myofascial pain: A case-control study	6
Composite psychosocial risk based on the fear avoidance model in patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Cluster-based analysis	6
Landing biomechanics are not immediately altered by a single-dose patellar tendon isometric exercise protocol in male athletes with patellar tendinopathy: A single-blinded randomized cross-over trial	6
Impact of prior anterior cruciate ligament, hamstring or groin injury on lower limb strength and jump kinetics in elite female footballers	6
The association of concussion history and symptom presentation in combat sport athletes	6
Situations and mechanisms of non-contact knee injury in adult netball: A systematic review	6
Knee strength outcomes in adolescents by age and sex during late-stage rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction	6
Knee flexor strength, rate of torque development and flexibility in women and men with patellofemoral pain: Relationship with pain and the performance in the single leg bridge test	6
Running-related injury: How long does it take? Feasibility, preliminary evaluation, and German translation of the University of Wisconsin running and recovery index	6
The deficits of isometric knee flexor strength in lengthened hamstring position after hamstring strain injury	6
Interventions for prevention and in-season management of patellar tendinopathy in athletes: A scoping review	6
“Does isometric exercise improve leg stiffness and hop pain in subjects with Achilles tendinopathy? A feasibility study”	6
Physical impairments in longstanding hip and groin pain: Cross-sectional comparison of patients with hip-related pain or non-hip-related groin pain and healthy controls	6
Biomechanical analysis of the closed kinetic chain upper extremity stability test in healthy young adults	6
Preventive effect of tailored exercises on patellar tendinopathy in elite youth athletes: A cohort study	6
Sport specialization and sport participation opportunities and their association with injury history in female high school volleyball athletes	6
Effectiveness of shoulder injury prevention programs in an overhead athletic population: A systematic review	6
The influence of hip rotations on muscle activity during unilateral weight-bearing exercises in individuals with and without genu varum: A cross-sectional study	6
How accurate are visual assessments by physical therapists of lumbo-pelvic movements during the squat and deadlift?	6
Association between lower back pain and lower extremity pain among young volleyball players: A cross-sectional study	6
The implementation of a neck strengthening exercise program in elite rugby union: A team case study over one season	6
Knee performance and self-efficacy trajectory curves after ACL reconstruction: A longitudinal study	6
Differences in lower-extremity kinematics between the male military personnel with and without plantar fasciitis	6
Effects of kinesiophobia and pain on performance and willingness to perform jumping tests in Achilles tendinopathy: A cross-sectional study	6
Injury risk is greater in physically mature versus biologically younger male soccer players from academies in different countries	6