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Original articles

• Tackler’s head position relative to the ball carrier is highly correlated with head and neck injuries in rugby (21 November, 2017)

  Shogo Sobue, Takayuki Kawasaki, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Yuki Shiota, Chihiro Ota, Takeshi Yoneda, Shigeyuki Tahara, Nobukazu Maki, Takahiro Matsuura, Masahiro Sekiguchi, Yoshiaki Itoigawa, Tomohiko Tateishi, Kazuo Kaneko
• Chronic inflammation is a feature of Achilles tendinopathy and rupture (8 November, 2017)

  Stephanie Georgina Dakin, Julia Newton, Fernando O Martinez, Robert Hedley, Stephen Gwilym, Natasha Jones, Hamish A B Reid, Simon Wood, Graham Wells, Louise Appleton, Kim Wheway, Bridget Watkins, Andrew Jonathan Carr
• Efficacy of a movement control injury prevention programme in adult men’s community rugby union: a cluster randomised controlled trial (21 October, 2017)

  Matthew J Attwood, Simon P Roberts, Grant Trewartha, Mike E England, Keith A Stokes
• Functional performance 6 months after ACL reconstruction can predict return to participation in the same preinjury activity level 12 and 24 months after surgery (27 September, 2017)

  Zakariya Nawasreh, David Logerstedt, Kathleen Cummer, Michael Axe, May Arna Risberg, Lynn Snyder-Mackler