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semli lifestyle interventions for chronic disease

Lifestyle Interventions for Chronic Disease

Prevention, management and rehabilitation of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) of lifestyle through patient-centred, comprehensive, lifestyle interventions that include the promotion of physical activity & participation in recreational sport.
semli exercise related injuries

Exercise-related Injuries

The prevention, non-surgical management and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal and other injuries in sports, including all physically active individuals participating in recreational sports.
semli medical complications

Medical complications & Illness during Exercise

The prevention and management of medical complications and illness in sports, including all physically active individuals participating in recreational sports.
semli sports performance

Sports Performance

Enhancing excellence in sports performance.
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Sport and physical activity in society

Including economics, governance, management, ethics, and education.
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Title

Factors associated with a history of acute traumatic cycling injuries in 60941 cycling race entrants in South Africa: SAFER study XLII. 

Citation
Bmj Inj Prev. 2024
Authors
Jansen van Rensburg, B., Schwellnus, M., Green, D., Jansen van Rensburg, A., Jordaan, E., Swanevelder, S. & Sewry, N.
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Title

The association between menstrual cycle phase, menstrual irregularities, contraceptive use and musculoskeletal injury among female athletes: a scoping review. 

Citation
Sports Med. 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s40279-024-02074-5
Authors
MacMillan, C., Olivier, B., Viljoen, C., Janse van Rensburg, C. & Sewry, N.
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Title

Sex, training variables, history of chronic disease, and chronic injury are risk factors associated with a history of exercise-associated muscle cramping in 10 973 ultramarathon race entrants: A SAFER XXXVIII study. 

Citation
J Sport Med Phys Fit. 2024. doi: 10.23736/S0022-4707.24.15842-2
Authors
MacMillan, C., Sewry, N., Schwellnus, M., Boulter, J., Dyer, M. & Jordaan, E.
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Title

Incidence and burden of illness at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games held during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study of 66 045 athlete days

Citation
Br J Sports Med Epub ahead of print: doi:10.1136/ bjsports-2022-106312
Authors
Wayne Derman, Phoebe Runciman, Maaike Eken, Pieter-Henk Boer, Cheri Blauwet, Manos Bogdos, Guzel Idrisova, Esme Jordaan, James Kissick, Philipe LeVan, Jan Lexell, Fariba Mohammadi, Marcelo Patricio, Martin Schwellnus, Nick Webborn, Stuart E Willick, Kazuyoshi Yagishita
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Title

International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on acute respiratory illness in athletes part 1: acute respiratory infections

Citation
Schwellnus M, Adami PE, Bougault V, et al. Br J Sports Med Epub ahead of print: [please include Day Month Year]. doi:10.1136/ bjsports-2022-105759
Authors
Martin Schwellnus, Paolo Emilio Adami, Valerie Bougault, Richard Budgett, Hege Havstad Clemm, Wayne Derman, Uğur Erdener, Ken Fitch, James H Hull, Cameron McIntosh, Tim Meyer, Lars Pedersen, David B Pyne, Tonje Reier-Nilsen, Wolfgang Schobersberger, Yorck Olaf Schumacher, Nicola Sewry, Torbjørn Soligard, Maarit Valtonen, Nick Webborn, Lars Engebretsen
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Title

International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on acute respiratory illness in athletes part 2: non-infective acute respiratory illness

Citation
Schwellnus M, Adami PE, Bougault V, et al. Br J Sports Med Epub ahead of print: [please include Day Month Year]. doi:10.1136/ bjsports-2022-105567
Authors
Martin Schwellnus, Paolo Emilio Adam, Valerie Bougault, Richard Budgett, Hege Havstad Clemm, Wayne Derman, Uğur Erdener, Ken Fitch, James H Hull, Cameron McIntosh, Tim Meyer, Lars Pedersen, David B Pyne, Tonje Reier-Nilsen, Wolfgang Schobersberger, Yorck Olaf Schumacher, Nicola Sewry, Torbjørn Soligard, Maarit Valtonen, Nick Webborn, Lars Engebretsen
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Title

International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on acute respiratory illness in athletes part 2: non-infective acute respiratory illness

Citation
Schwellnus M, Adami PE, Bougault V, et al. Br J Sports Med Epub ahead of print: [please include Day Month Year]. doi:10.1136/ bjsports-2022-105567
Authors
Martin Schwellnus, Paolo Emilio Adam, Valerie Bougault, Richard Budgett, Hege Havstad Clemm, Wayne Derman, Uğur Erdener, Ken Fitch, James H Hull, Cameron McIntosh, Tim Meyer, Lars Pedersen, David B Pyne, Tonje Reier-Nilsen, Wolfgang Schobersberger, Yorck Olaf Schumacher, Nicola Sewry, Torbjørn Soligard, Maarit Valtonen, Nick Webborn, Lars Engebretsen
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Title

International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on acute respiratory illness in athletes part 1: acute respiratory infections

Citation
Schwellnus M, Adami PE, Bougault V, et al. Br J Sports Med Epub ahead of print: [please include Day Month Year]. doi:10.1136/ bjsports-2022-105759
Authors
Martin Schwellnus, Paolo Emilio Adami, Valerie Bougault, Richard Budgett, Hege Havstad Clemm, Wayne Derman, Uğur Erdener, Ken Fitch, James H Hull, Cameron McIntosh, Tim Meyer, Lars Pedersen, David B Pyne, Tonje Reier-Nilsen, Wolfgang Schobersberger, Yorck Olaf Schumacher, Nicola Sewry, Torbjørn Soligard, Maarit Valtonen, Nick Webborn, Lars Engebretsen
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Title

Trail running injury risk factors: a living systematic review

Citation
British Journal of Sports Medicine Published Online First: 12 January 2022. doi:0.1136/bjsports-2021-104858”.
Authors
Carel Viljoen , Dina C (Christa) Janse van Rensburg ,Willem van Mechelen, Evert Verhagen, Bruno Silva, Volker Scheer, Manuela Besomi, Rubén Gajardo-Burgos, Sérgio Matos, Marlene Schoeman, Audrey Jansen van Rensburg , Nicol van Dyk , Susan Scheepers, Tanita Botha
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Title

Incidence of acute respiratory illnesses in athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis by a subgroup of the IOC consensus on ‘acute respiratory illness in the athlete’

Citation
Derman W, Badenhorst M, Eken MM, et al. Br J Sports Med Epub ahead of print: doi:10.1136/bjsports-2021-104737
Authors
Wayne Derman, Marelise Badenhorst, Maaike Maria Eken, Josu Ezeiza-Gomez, Jane Fitzpatrick, Maree Gleeson, Lovemore Kunorozva, Katja Mjosund, Margo Mountjoy, Nicola Sewry, Martin Schwellnus
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Title

Let us introduce ourselves, #WeAreBOSEM

Citation
BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med, 2021
Authors
Verhagen, Evert, Oliveira, Fabio, Ahmed, Osman Hassan, Anderson, Nash, Badenhorst, Marelise, Bekker, Sheree, Belavy, Daniel Ludovic, Blake, Tracy, Cao, Chao, Carrard, Justin, Chen, Lingxiao, Cheng, Sonia Wing Mei, Edouard, Pascal, Harwood, Amy, Hendricks, Sharief, Hespanhol, Luiz, Kearney, Ronan, Keohane, David, Magnani, Rina, Mah, Dominic, Mavros, Yorgi, McLeary, Nikki, Memon, Aamir Raoof, Moholdt, Trine, Morais Azevedo, Ana, Nauta, Joske, Nicol, Greig, Noorbhai, Habib, Ogbonmwan, Ikponmwonsa, Owen, Patrick J, Panagodage Perera, Nirmala, Reiman, Mike, Resende, Renan, Robinson, Diana Gai, Rojas-Valverde, Daniel, Sewry, Nicola, Statuta, Siobhan, Nassau, Femke van, West, Liam, Wheeler, Patrick Crane, Xiao, Tao and Pandya, Tej
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Title

International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension for Sport Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS))

Citation
The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 8(2), Feb 2020
Authors
Roald Bahr ,Ben Clarsen , Wayne Derman, Jiri Dvorak, Carolyn A Emery, Caroline F Finch, Martin Hägglund, Astrid Junge, Simon Kemp, Karim M Khan, Stephen W Marshall, Willem Meeuwisse, Margo Mountjoy, John W Orchard, Babette Pluim, Kenneth L Quarrie, Bruce Reider, Martin Schwellnus, Torbjørn Soligard, Keith A Stokes, Toomas Timpka, Evert Verhagen, Abhinav Bindra, Richard Budgett, Lars Engebretsen,Uğur Erdener, Karim Chamari
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Title

Delphi developed syllabus for the medical specialty of sport and exercise medicine: part 2

Citation
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 24 Sep, 2020
Authors
David Humphries, Rod Jaques, H Paul Dijkstra, Irfan Asif, Mark E Batt, Mats Borjesson, Emin Ergen, Celeste Geertsema ,Boris Gojanovic, Anca Ionescu, Dina Christina (Christa) Janse van Rensburg, Constance Lebrun, Nahar Azmi Mohamed, Margo Mountjoy, Tvisha Parikh, Diana Robinson, Robert Sallis, Martin Schwellnus, Padraig Sheeran
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Title

Improved reporting of overuse injuries and health problems in sport: An update of the Oslo Sport Trauma Research Center questionnaires

Citation
Br J Sports Med 2020;54:390–396
Authors
Benjamin Clarsen, Roald Bahr, Grethe Myklebust, Stig Haugsboe Andersson, Sean Iain Docking, Michael Drew, Caroline F Finch, Lauren Victoria Fortington, Joar Harøy, Karim M Khan, Bill Moreau, Isabel S Moore, Merete Møller, Dustin Nabhan, Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen, Kati Pasanen, Martin Schwellnus, Torbjørn Soligard, Evert Verhagen
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Title

Consensus statement on concussion in sport—the 5thinternational conference on concussion in sport held in Berlin, October 2016.

Citation
Br J Sports Med 2017;0:1–10.
Authors
P McCrory, W Meeuwisse, J Dvorak, M Aubry, J Bailes, S Broglio, RC Cantu, D Cassidy, RJ Echemendia, RJ Castellani, GA Davis, R Ellenbogen, C Emery, L Engebretsen, N Feddermann-Demont, CC Giza, KM Guskiewicz, S Herring, GL Iverson, KM Johnston, J Kissick,J Kutcher, JJ Leddy, D Maddock, M Makdissi, G Manley, M McCrea, WP Meehan, S Nagahiro, J Patricios, M Putukian, KJ Schneider, A Sills, CH Tator, M Turner, PE Vos
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Title

International consensus statement on injury surveillance in cricket: a 2016 update.

Citation
Br J Sports Med. 2016;50:1245–1251
Authors
John W Orchard, Craig Ranson, Benita Olivier, Mandeep Dhillon, Janine Gray, Ben Langley, Akshai Mansingh, Isabel S Moore, Ian Murphy, Jon Patricios, Thiagarajan Alwar, Christopher J Clark, Brett Harrop, Hussain I Khan, Alex Kountouris, Mairi Macphail, Stephen Mount, Anesu Mupotaringa, David Newman, Kieran O'Reilly, Nicholas Peirce, Sohail Saleem, Dayle Shackel, Richard Stretch, Caroline F Finch
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Title

Consensus statement: How much is too much? (Part 1) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of injury.

Citation
Br J Sports Med 2016;50:1030–1041
Authors
Torbjørn Soligard, Martin Schwellnus, Juan-Manuel Alonso, Roald Bahr, Ben Clarsen, H. Paul Dijkstra, Tim Gabbett, Michael Gleeson, Martin Hägglund, Mark R. Hutchinson, Christa Janse van Rensburg, Karim M. Khan, Romain Meeusen, John W. Orchard, Babette M. Pluim, Martin Raftery, Richard Budgett, Lars Engebretsen
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Title

“Consensus statement: How much is too much? (Part 2) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of illness.”

Citation
Br J Sports Med 2016;50:1043–1052
Authors
Martin Schwellnus, Torbjørn Soligard, Juan-Manuel Alonso, Roald Bahr, Ben Clarsen, H Paul Dijkstra, Tim J. Gabbett, Michael Gleeson, Martin Hägglund, Mark R. Hutchinson, Christa Janse Van Rensburg, Karim Khan, Romain Meeusen, John W. Orchard, Babette M. Pluim, Martin Raftery, Richard Budgett, Lars Engebretsen
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Lifestyle Interventions for Chronic Disease

Prevention, management and rehabilitation of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) of lifestyle through patient-centred, comprehensive, lifestyle interventions that include the promotion of physical activity & participation in recreational sport.
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semli injury prevention

Exercise-related Injuries

The prevention, non-surgical management and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal and other injuries in sports, including all physically active individuals participating in recreational sports.
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semli medical complications

Medical complications & Illness during Exercise

The prevention and management of medical complications and illness in sports, including all physically active individuals participating in recreational sports.
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semli sports performance

Sports Performance

Enhancing excellence in sports performance.
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semli society

Sport and physical activity in society

Including economics, governance, management, ethics, and education.
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