Table of contents

Original articles

• Analysis of heart rate variability at rest and during aerobic exercise: a study in healthy people and cardiac patients (16 January, 2008)

  B de la Cruz Torres, C López López, J Naranjo Orellana
• The use of medication and nutritional supplements during FIFA World Cups 2002 and 2006 (28 February, 2008)

  P Tscholl, A Junge, J Dvorak
• Creatine supplementation does not affect clinical health markers in football players (9 September, 2008)

  P Cancela, C Ohanian, E Cuitiño, A C Hackney
• Thermoregulatory responses during competitive singles tennis (29 November, 2007)

  S M Morante, J R Brotherhood
• Circulating substance P levels and shoulder joint contracture after arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff (28 February, 2008)

  F Franceschi, U G Longo, L Ruzzini, S Morini, F Battistoni, G Dicuonzo, N Maffulli, V Denaro
• New regimen for eccentric calf-muscle training in patients with chronic insertional Achilles tendinopathy: results of a pilot study (9 January, 2008)

  P Jonsson, H Alfredson, K Sunding, M Fahlström, J Cook
• Off-the-shelf in-shoe heel inserts: does cost matter? (29 November, 2007)

  A K Ramanathan, M C John, G P Arnold, L A Cochrane, R J Abboud
• Increased mast cell numbers in human patellar tendinosis: correlation with symptom duration and vascular hyperplasia (28 February, 2008) Free

  A Scott, Ø Lian, R Bahr, D A Hart, V Duronio, K M Khan
• Neutralisation of muscle tumour necrosis factor alpha does not attenuate exercise-induced muscle pain but does improve muscle strength in healthy male volunteers (23 August, 2007)

  T L Rice, I Chantler, L C Loram
• Payments to injured professional jockeys in British horse racing (1996–2006) (1 April, 2008)

  M Turner, G Balendra, P McCrory
• Injury rate and socioeconomic costs resulting from sports injuries in Flanders: data derived from sports insurance statistics 2003 (29 November, 2007)

  E Cumps, E Verhagen, L Annemans, R Meeusen
• The epidemiology of rock-climbing injuries (7 December, 2007)

  G Jones, A Asghar, D J Llewellyn