Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Lowering the tackle height in men’s rugby has successfully reduced the rate of head collisions among players, a study suggests.

A basic pedometer can prove sufficient for measuring health-promoting physical activity, according to a study comparing pedometers with more complex devices. Simply counting steps captured a remarkable amount of information about the participants’ aerobic fitness and cardiovascular health.

Getting a headache during or after exercise can be seriously frustrating—especially if you have kept hydrated to try and stop them from happening.

When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to your muscles and tendons to make this possible? Associate Professor Daisuke Takeshita and doctoral student Kazuki Kuriyama from the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo have revealed the way our legs adapt to fast movements.

Americans have long believed that sports are one area in society that offers kids from all backgrounds the chance to succeed to the best of their abilities.

Due to the physical contact nature of their occupation, the elite athletes of the National Football League (NFL) often experience pain. However, an analysis of 2021 and 2022 data from the National Football League Prescription Drug Monitoring Program shows that team members in those two years were even less likely than both the general U.S. population and males of similar age living in the U.S., to have a prescription for an opioid pain medication.

If building strength and muscle mass is part of your New Year’s Resolution, you may want to add a new routine to your workout.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that in healthy females, a post-meal rise in blood sugar was lower if they waited until after breakfast to exercise.

Movement is medicine, or so they tell people with knee osteoarthritis—but are they right?