Translational Sports Medicine is an open access journal that promotes all aspects of sports medicine by exploring the translational pathway between mechanistic research and conceptually novel insight into human exercise activities in relation to diagnosis, treatment, performance or prevention of diseases or sports injuries.

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Geographic Remoteness, Socioeconomic Status, and Healthcare Access: Emergency Preparedness of South Dakota Secondary Schools

Trevor C. Roiger, Mary Beth Zwart, Angela E. Brown, Hailey A. Haber, Nicholas R. Anderson, 
  •  7 June 2025
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Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on the Performance of Marathon Runners

Javier Lluch, Félix Martínez-Giménez, Francisco Abad, Javier Garrido Martínez, 
  •  4 June 2025
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Corrigendum to “The Distal Free Achilles Tendon Is Longer in People with Tendinopathy than in Controls: A Retrospective Case‐Control Study”

  •  28 May 2025
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Running Acceleration Correlates With T2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Values of the Lumber Intervertebral Disc

Takayoshi Hakkaku, Yoshiaki Kubo, Koji Koyama, Koichi Nakazato, Takashi Okada, Kenji Hiranuma, 
  •  24 May 2025
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Countermovement Jump Kinetic Impairments in Elite Athletes Before and After ACL Injury: Force‐Time Waveform Versus Discrete Kinetic Analysis

Cassidy de França, Matthew J. Jordan, Tanita Botha, Helen Bayne, 
  •  7 May 2025
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How elite athletes, coaches, and physiotherapists perceive a sports injury

Caroline Bolling, Saulo Delfino Barboza, Willem van Mechelen, H. Roeline Pasman, 
  •  17-23
  •  30 October 2018
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Exercise and sports after COVID‐19—Guidance from a clinical perspective

Martin Halle, Wilhelm Bloch, Andreas M. Niess, Hans-Georg Predel, Claus Reinsberger, Jürgen Scharhag, Jürgen Steinacker, Bernd Wolfarth, Johannes Scherr, Josef Niebauer, 
  •  310-318
  •  5 April 2021

Persistent functional loss following ruptured Achilles tendon is associated with reduced gastrocnemius muscle fascicle length, elongated gastrocnemius and soleus tendon, and reduced muscle cross‐sectional area

René B. Svensson, Christian Couppé, Anne-Sofie Agergaard, Christian Ohrhammar Josefsen, Mikkel Holm Jensen, Kristoffer Weisskirchner Barfod, Janus D. Nybing, Philip Hansen, Michael Krogsgaard, S. Peter Magnusson, 
  •  316-324
  •  29 July 2019
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Is there a biomechanically efficient vertical ground reaction force profile for countermovement jumps?

Malachy P. McHugh, Marc Hickok, Josef A. Cohen, Adam Virgile, Declan A. J. Connolly, 
  •  138-146
  •  25 September 2020
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Moderate‐intensity aerobic exercise improves skeletal muscle quality in older adults

Camille R. Brightwell, Melissa M. Markofski, Tatiana Moro, Christopher S. Fry, Craig Porter, Elena Volpi, Blake B. Rasmussen, 
  •  109-119
  •  29 January 2019
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