Are sports medicine journals relevant and applicable to practitioners and athletes ?
In a paper by the same title a bold author [16] reviews four major journals. The conclusions he drew were: ‘The most common topic was sports science, and very few studies related to the treatment of injuries and medical conditions. The majority of published articles used healthy subjects sampled from the sedentary population, and few studies have been carried out on injured participants. There is a dearth of studies addressing diagnostic and treatment interventions in the sports medicine literature. The evidence base for sports medicine must continue to increase in terms of volume and quality’ Sounds like someone wants to keep me busy with reviewing!!
