A common trend among hosts of women's international sporting events is to tout the opportunity to positively impact women's and girls' sporting and physical activity practices. Yet, many scholars have shown that such 'trickle down' effects from the event to society are seldom realised....

Despite growing interest in the origins of sports medicine, there has been little academic attention paid to the development of healthcare in New Zealand sport. Using primary archival sources as well as contemporaneous literature from the post-world war period to the founding of the New Zealand...

Objectives: To provide epidemiological data and related costs for sport-related injuries of five sporting codes (cricket, netball, rugby league, rugby union and football) in New Zealand for moderate-to-serious and serious injury claims. Methods: A retrospective analytical review using detailed...

Recently, there has been a global increase in female-based sports medicine research related to physiological aspects of the menstrual cycle. However, it is unclear whether health professionals and athletes routinely and openly discuss this sometimes-sensitive topic. This study explored different...

This paper examines the politics of sports stadium developments using a case study of the Save Meadowbank stadium campaign. This group originated from local anger over Edinburgh Council's decision to close, with limited consultations, Meadowbank stadium, to fund new facilities deemed in the...

In this article, I examine the relatively youthful sporting retirement of four athletes from popular Western team sports, namely soccer, ice hockey and rugby union. Drawing on studies of sporting transitions and retirement (e.g., Denison, 1997; Douglas & Carless, 2009; Sparkes, 1998; Sparkes &...

Background: There is limited research on the nutrition knowledge and food skills of elite adolescent athletes. As adolescent athletes are moving through an important physiological stage of life, as well as training and competing in their chosen sports, optimal nutrition is vital for not just health ...

Objectives: This study aimed to establish the prevalence, pattern and nature of coaches' verbal behaviour at children's (ages 6-12 years) team sports events. The study draws upon the motivational model presented by Mageau and Vallerand (2003) to examine the influence of global (gender), contextual ...

This paper explores the ways in which the environment of elite-level and, in particular, commercial sport produces expectations and pressures on sports doctors that may compromise their professional standards. Specifically, this paper addresses the pressures and demands that emerge from varying...

This article provides evidence and consensus-based guidelines relevant to the medical support of New Zealand elite athletes during the transition to a "new normal" in the New Zealand environment. The following recommendations have resulted from consultation between the medical officers of New...