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Research

• Achilles tendinopathy—do plantaris tendon removal and Achilles tendon scraping improve tendon structure? A prospective study using ultrasound tissue characterisation (6 May, 2015)

  Lorenzo Masci, Christoph Spang, Hans T M van Schie, Håkan Alfredson
• Correlates of sport participation in adults with long-standing illness or disability (3 June, 2015)

  Neil Heron, Frank Kee, Margaret E Cupples, Mark A Tully
• Validity of the Fitbit activity tracker for measuring steps in community-dwelling older adults

  (8 July, 2015)

  Serene S Paul, Anne Tiedemann, Leanne M Hassett, Elisabeth Ramsay, Catherine Kirkham, Sakina Chagpar, Catherine Sherrington
• Sedentary behaviour among elite professional footballers: health and performance implications (17 July, 2015)

  Richard Weiler, Daniel Aggio, Mark Hamer, Tom Taylor, Bhavesh Kumar
• Athletes with higher VO₂max present reduced oxLDL after a marathon race

  (27 July, 2015)

  André L L Bachi, Ana Paula R Sierra, Francisco J O Rios, Danieli A Gonçalves, Nabil Ghorayeb, Ronaldo L Abud, Angélica B Victorino, Juliana M B dos Santos, Maria Augusta D P Kiss, Tania C Pithon-Curi, Mauro Vaisberg
• Decrease in eccentric quadriceps and hamstring strength in recreational alpine skiers after prolonged skiing (10 August, 2015)

  Arnold Koller, Birgit Fuchs, Veronika Leichtfried, Wolfgang Schobersberger
• Predicting physical activity energy expenditure in wheelchair users with a multisensor device (13 August, 2015)

  T E Nightingale, J P Walhin, D Thompson, J L J Bilzon
• Force and acceleration characteristics of military foot drill: implications for injury risk in recruits (21 August, 2015)

  Patrick P J Carden, Rachel M Izard, Julie P Greeves, Jason P Lake, Stephen D Myers
• The Child Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (Child SCAT3): normative values and correspondence between child and parent symptom scores in male child athletes (21 August, 2015)

  Shaun Porter, Jenna Smith-Forrester, Najah Alhajri, Cody Kusch, Jonathan Sun, Bill Barrable, William J Panenka, Naznin Virji-Babul
• Rethinking the role of fat oxidation: substrate utilisation during high-intensity interval training in well-trained and recreationally trained runners (21 August, 2015)

  Ken J Hetlelid, Daniel J Plews, Eva Herold, Paul B Laursen, Stephen Seiler
• Previous injury as a risk factor for reinjury in rock climbing: a secondary analysis of data from a retrospective cross-sectional cohort survey of active rock climbers (27 August, 2015)

  Gareth Jones, David Llewellyn, Mark I Johnson
• Effectiveness of a single platelet-rich plasma injection to promote recovery in rugby players with ankle syndesmosis injury (10 September, 2015)

  David J Samra, Amy D Sman, Katherine Rae, James Linklater, Kathryn M Refshauge, Claire E Hiller
• Cardiac systolic regional function and synchrony in endurance trained and untrained females (14 September, 2015)

  Kristofer Hedman, Éva Tamás, Niclas Bjarnegård, Lars Brudin, Eva Nylander
• A ‘novel’ model for integrating Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) and Musculoskeletal (MSK) management into primary care in the UK (15 September, 2015)

  Neil Heron
• Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on selective fitness profile parameters in young untrained Muslim men (30 September, 2015)

  Anindita Singha Roy, Amit Bandyopadhyay
• Reduction in cardiorespiratory fitness after lung resection is not related to the number of lung segments removed (5 October, 2015)

  Elisabeth Edvardsen, Sigmund A Anderssen, Fredrik Borchsenius, Ole Henning Skjønsberg
• Mechanical efficiency improvement in relation to metabolic changes in sedentary obese adults (5 October, 2015)

  Georges Jabbour, Horia-Daniel Iancu
• The impact of 12 weeks walking football on health and fitness in males over 50 years of age (8 October, 2015)

  Josh Timothy Arnold, Stewart Bruce-Low, Luke Sammut
• Motocross biking for competition and for recreation: a prospective analysis of 423 injured riders (14 October, 2015)

  Rohit Singh, Peter Theobald, AK Hamad, Stuart Hay
• Susceptibility to exertional heat illness and hospitalisation risk in UK military personnel (14 October, 2015)

  Michael J Stacey, Iain T Parsons, David R Woods, Peter N Taylor, David Ross, Stephen J Brett
• The challenge of preserving cardiorespiratory fitness in physically inactive patients with colon or breast cancer during adjuvant chemotherapy: a randomised feasibility study (23 October, 2015)

  Tom Møller, Christian Lillelund, Christina Andersen, Kira Bloomquist, Karl Bang Christensen, Bent Ejlertsen, Lone Nørgaard, Liza Wiedenbein, Peter Oturai, Ulla Breitenstein, Lis Adamsen
• Exercise as medicine—the use of group medical visits to promote physical activity and treat chronic moderate depression: a preliminary 14-week pre–post study (2 November, 2015)

  David J Adams, Ronald A Remick, Jennifer C Davis, Sara Vazirian, Karim M Khan
• Validation of a free fall acrobatics intervention protocol to reduce neck loads during parachute opening shock (2 November, 2015)

  Anton Westman, Björn O Äng
• The effects of a free-weight-based resistance training intervention on pain, squat biomechanics and MRI-defined lumbar fat infiltration and functional cross-sectional area in those with chronic low back (9 November, 2015)

  Neil Welch, Kieran Moran, Joseph Antony, Chris Richter, Brendan Marshall, Joe Coyle, Eanna Falvey, Andrew Franklyn-Miller
• Patterns of platelet-rich plasma use among Australasian sports physicians (9 November, 2015)

  David J Samra, John W Orchard
• Influence of muscle fibre composition on muscle oxygenation during maximal running (25 November, 2015)

  Tomoharu Kitada, Shuichi Machida, Hisashi Naito
• Can clinicians and scientists explain and prevent unexplained underperformance syndrome in elite athletes: an interdisciplinary perspective and 2016 update (25 November, 2015)

  Nathan A Lewis, Dave Collins, Charles R Pedlar, John P Rogers
• Ankle to brachial systolic pressure index at rest increases with age in asymptomatic physically active participants (25 November, 2015)

  Florian Congnard, Pierre Abraham, François Vincent, Thierry Le tourneau, François Carre, David Hupin, Jean François Hamel, Bruno Vielle, Antoine Bruneau
• Sympathetic enhancement in futsal players but not in football players after repeated sprint ability test (27 November, 2015)

  Yung-Sheng Chen, Chih-Jung Liao, Wan-An Lu, Cheng-Deng Kuo
• Acute effects of cold therapy on knee skin surface temperature: gel pack versus ice bag (7 December, 2015)

  Matthew Breslin, Patrick Lam, George A C Murrell
• The relationships between rugby players’ tackle training attitudes and behaviour and their match tackle attitudes and behaviour (7 December, 2015)

  Sharief Hendricks, Steve den Hollander, Nicholas Tam, James Brown, Michael Lambert
• The practical use of surface electromyography during running: does the evidence support the hype? A narrative review (17 December, 2015)

  R Subbu, R Weiler, G Whyte
• Effect of pseudoephedrine in sport: a systematic review (21 December, 2015)

  Kien V Trinh, Jiin Kim, Amanda Ritsma
• Eucapnic voluntary hyperpnoea and exercise-induced vocal cord dysfunction (23 December, 2015)

  Julie Turmel, Simon Gagnon, Mélanie Bernier, Louis-Philippe Boulet