{"title":"Physical activity interventions for promoting 24-hour movement behaviours, physical fitness, fundamental movement skills and cognitive function in Chinese preschoolers (PhD Academy Award).","authors":"Shan Jiang","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-110929","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-110929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1359-1360"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146118015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New IOC Diploma in Sports Pharmacy: creating specialist career paths for pharmacists in sport.","authors":"Mark Stuart, David Mottram, Trudy Thomas","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111538","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1290-1291"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148599055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Prossor, Phil Hopley, Andrew Murray, William John Wynter Bee, Margo Mountjoy, Wimpie du Plessis, Amit Anand, Cinzia Pezzolesi
{"title":"Integrating psychiatry into performance golf: a new care standard.","authors":"David Prossor, Phil Hopley, Andrew Murray, William John Wynter Bee, Margo Mountjoy, Wimpie du Plessis, Amit Anand, Cinzia Pezzolesi","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-111504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2025-111504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebeca Hernández-Gamboa, Jammy Zou, Jean Oh, Vrinda Dimri, Yeseok Kate Seo, Ryu Lien, Guilherme Moraes Balbim, Narlon C Boa Sorte Silva, Amit Lampit, Ryan Falck, Teresa Liu-Ambrose
{"title":"Exercise-only interventions and exercise-based multidomain lifestyle interventions to promote cognitive function in older adults without dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Rebeca Hernández-Gamboa, Jammy Zou, Jean Oh, Vrinda Dimri, Yeseok Kate Seo, Ryu Lien, Guilherme Moraes Balbim, Narlon C Boa Sorte Silva, Amit Lampit, Ryan Falck, Teresa Liu-Ambrose","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2026-111684","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the effect of exercise training as a single intervention (ie, <i>Exercise-Only</i>) and exercise combined with other lifestyle interventions (ie, <i>Exercise-Plus</i>) on executive functions, memory and processing speed of older adults living without dementia.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We performed a systematic review with pairwise meta-analyses and network meta-analysis to examine the effects of: (1) <i>Exercise-Only</i> versus <i>Control</i>; (2) <i>Exercise-Plus</i> versus <i>Control</i>; and (3) <i>Exercise-Plus</i> versus <i>Exercise-Only</i>.</p><p><strong>Data sources: </strong>We searched four databases (Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and CINAHL) between database inception and March 2026.</p><p><strong>Eligibility criteria: </strong>We included randomised controlled trials that examined the effects of exercise training as a single domain or multidomain intervention on cognitive function of adults aged over 60 living without dementia.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 227 studies in the pairwise meta-analyses (<i>Exercise-Only</i>=178, <i>Exercise-</i>Plus=67) and 105 studies in the subset for the network meta-analysis (<i>Exercise-Only</i>=76, <i>Exercise-Plus=</i>36). Cognitive training and cognitively engaging activities were the most common <i>Plus</i> component in the included studies. <i>Exercise-Only</i> produced statistically significant improvements across all three cognitive domains compared with <i>Control. Exercise-Plus</i> was only significantly better than <i>Control</i> for memory. <i>Exercise-Plus</i> was also significantly better than <i>Exercise-Only</i> for executive functions and processing speed but not for memory.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We recommend the promotion of exercise training to improve cognitive outcomes of older adults. Further research is needed to determine the added benefit of multidomain exercise interventions.</p><p><strong>Prospero registration number: </strong>CRD42022322199.</p>","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149015841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joshua Heerey, Anne Smith, Rintje Agricola, Johanna Luitjens, Felix Gassert, Matthew King, Peter Lawrenson, Mark Scholes, Andrea Mosler, Joanne Kemp, Thomas Link, Richard Souza, Michael Girdwood, Benjamin Mentiplay, Adam Ivan Semciw, Kay Crossley
{"title":"Longitudinal cohort study of the association between labral pathology and cartilage loss in high-impact athletes: the FORCe study.","authors":"Joshua Heerey, Anne Smith, Rintje Agricola, Johanna Luitjens, Felix Gassert, Matthew King, Peter Lawrenson, Mark Scholes, Andrea Mosler, Joanne Kemp, Thomas Link, Richard Souza, Michael Girdwood, Benjamin Mentiplay, Adam Ivan Semciw, Kay Crossley","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-110981","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-110981","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Labral tears are common in young adults participating in high-impact physical activity. No longitudinal studies have investigated whether labral tears expedite cartilage loss. This longitudinal study investigated the association between labral tears and cartilage loss in young adults participating in high-impact physical activity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study participants were high-impact athletes (soccer or Australian football) with and without hip and/or groin pain from the femoroacetabular impingement and hip osteoarthritis cohort study who underwent unenhanced 3T MRI at baseline and after 2-3 years. Labral tears and cartilage defects were scored semi-quantitatively. At baseline, labral tear presence (grade ≥2), subregion, number of subregions affected by labral tear, maximal labral score, labral sum score and presence of paralabral cysts were determined. A cartilage sum change score (difference between baseline and follow-up) was calculated for each hip (0-20). Negative binomial regression models were used to estimate if baseline labral tears were associated with cartilage loss, adjusting for sex, age, body mass index, alpha angle and baseline cartilage sum score.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>173 (343 hips) participants (82% with hip and/or groin pain; 22% women) with a median age of 26 years were included. The median International Hip Outcome Tool-33 total score was 69 at baseline. Follow-up MRIs were collected at a median of 2.1 years after baseline. 150 (87%) participants were still participating in high-impact physical activity at follow-up. Weak-to-moderate strength associations were identified between cartilage sum change score and baseline anterior labral tears (adjusted incidence rate ratio (a)IRR 1.46; 95% CI 1.01 to 2.09), paralabral cysts (aIRR 1.38; 95% CI 1.02 to 1.86) and labral sum score (aIRR 1.05; 95% CI 1.00 to 1.09).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings suggest that acetabular labral tears contribute to cartilage loss in young adult athletes; however, the associations observed were modest, suggesting that additional factors contribute to cartilage loss in this population. Further research is required to inform preventative strategies aimed at reducing cartilage loss in athletes with labral tears.</p>","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1306-1314"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148270443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing a novel running intervention for adults with chronic low back pain (PhD Academy Award).","authors":"Christopher Neason","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111642","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111642","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1361-1362"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148223307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faith, culture and physical activity: addressing participation barriers in UK Muslim communities.","authors":"Salman Waqar, Aminah Amer, Osman Hassan Ahmed","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111579","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111579","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1287-1289"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148148496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alba Esteban-Simón, Pablo Corres, Alberto Soriano-Maldonado, Almudena Carneiro-Barrera, Francisco J Amaro-Gahete
{"title":"Exercise prehabilitation in breast cancer: an emerging target to improve surgical outcomes.","authors":"Alba Esteban-Simón, Pablo Corres, Alberto Soriano-Maldonado, Almudena Carneiro-Barrera, Francisco J Amaro-Gahete","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-111167","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bjsports-2025-111167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1285-1287"},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148270492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lionel Chia, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Kate K Yung, Evangelos Pappas
{"title":"The iron triangle of elite sport: acknowledging the trade-offs between health, performance and availability.","authors":"Lionel Chia, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Kate K Yung, Evangelos Pappas","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-112592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2026-112592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148988162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategy over output: Why how an athlete moves matters as much as what they achieve in return-to-play decision making.","authors":"Nick van der Horst","doi":"10.1136/bjsports-2026-111763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2026-111763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9276,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sports Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148988210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}