Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context.

Objective: Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion. This study applied a gendered environmental approach to identify modifiable features of women's sport environments that may contribute to the gendered patterning of sports injuries. Our objectives were to identify features of gendered environments that mattered in athletes' lived experiences and to trace pathways connecting these features to injury.

Signs of Inequitable Access: Users of Private Physiotherapy Services Do Not Reflect the Urban Population in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Both private and public funding cover outpatient physiotherapy (PT) in Canada. Knowledge is lacking in who does and does not access PT services, which limits the ability to identify health/access inequities created by current financing structures. This study characterizes the individuals accessing private PT in Winnipeg to better understand whether inequities exist, given the very limited publicly financed PT.

Anterior cruciate ligament injury: towards a gendered environmental approach.

Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3-6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date, ACL injury prevention and management has been approached from a sex-based biological point of view which has furthered our understanding of injury risk factors, mechanisms, and prevention and rehabilitation programmes. However, the traditional sex-based approach does not take into account the growing recognition of how sex and gender (a social construct) are 'entangled' and influence each other.

Functional fitness for dental hygiene students: Does it make them fit to sit?

Background: Static positioning and awkward postures put dental hygienists at risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders. These disorders often appear during professional training programs. Ergonomics education has been shown to reduce the incidence of injuries, but fitness training to improve postural awareness and endurance is not typically included in dental hygiene curricula.

ATHLETE PERCEPTIONS AND PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE EFFECTS OF THE FIFA 11 + PROGRAM IN 9-11 YEAR-OLD FEMALE SOCCER PLAYERS: A CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIAL.

Background: Strong evidence supports the use of the FIFA 11 + injury risk reduction warm-up program among soccer players, but few studies have investigated its impact on physical performance and movement control in athletes younger than 12 years of age, or the athletes' opinions of participating in the program.

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to measure the impact of the FIFA 11 + program on movement control [Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) and Y-Balance test (YBT)], agility, vertical jump (VJ) height, and trunk muscle endurance compared to a standard warm-up in pre-teen female athletes over one indoor soccer season. A secondary purpose was to assess the athletes' tolerance and enjoyment of the program.

The Effect of Strength Training on the Jump-Landing Biomechanics of Young Female Athletes: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To investigate the effect of leg-focused strength training on the jump-landing mechanics of young female athletes.

Design: Single-blind, randomized controlled clinical trial.

Setting: University-based training program.

Reliability of measuring hip and knee power and movement velocity in active youth.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of measuring neuromuscular power and movement velocity of the hip and knee in young, active individuals using an isokinetic dynamometer.

Methods: Peak power, average power, and peak velocity (PV) data were recorded for the hip in the standing position and the knee in the sitting position in 52 youth aged 10 to 14 years on 2 occasions approximately 1 week apart.

Results: The PV measures demonstrated the best absolute reliability of all variables tested (coefficients of variation of the typical error [CV(TE)] = 5.

Modifying spike jump landing biomechanics in female adolescent volleyball athletes using video and verbal feedback.

Landing awkwardly from a jump is a common mechanism of injury for the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee. Augmented feedback, such as verbal or visual instruction, has been shown to cause an immediate, positive change in landing biomechanics in a laboratory setting. No data exist on the longer term effects of feedback on jump landing biomechanics in a sports-specific setting.