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Background Change of direction (CoD) is associated with performance and injury in multidirectional sports. CoD consists of different phases (initial acceleration, deceleration, and re-acceleration) ...

Introduction The main purpose of sports medicine rehabilitation is to implement processes and procedures that should return the athletes to their previous level of functioning in the shortest possible ...

Most American football fans have seen something like this before and grimaced: A running back, sprinting at breakneck speed down the field, makes a swift cut to evade a defender. But when all his ...