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Systematic Reviews on Sports Injuries
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for preventing and recovering from sports injuries.
Reviewed November 2011
4 Resources Found
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| Title: | Interventions for preventing lower limb soft-tissue injuries in runners |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Lower limb soft-tissue injuries are common in runners. Most running-related injuries are overuse injuries and the causes of these injuries are often multifactorial. Prevention strategies attempt to target modifiable risk factors. We included 25 trials w... |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Stretching to prevent or reduce muscle soreness after exercise |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Many people stretch prior to or after engaging in physical activities such as sport. Usually the purpose is to reduce the risk of injury, reduce soreness after exercise, or enhance athletic performance. This review looked at the effects of stretching on... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Rehabilitation following an injury to the hamstring in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Hamstring injuries are commonly encountered in sports medicine, and clinical management of this problem can differ widely. There is limited evidence to suggest that rate of recovery can be increased with an increased daily frequency of hamstring stretch... |
| Date: | May 2006 |
| Title: | Interventions for preventing and treating stress fractures and stress reactions of bone of the lower limbs in young adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Stress fractures are a type of overuse injury. They can be very painful and debilitating. Lower limb stress fractures are common in people undergoing military training and in athletes, particularly long distance runners. Measures to prevent stress fract... |
| Date: | Jan 2005 |
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