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  1. Ronan Kearney1,
  2. Christina Le2,
  3. Eoin Cunniffe3,
  4. Josh Heerey4
  1. 1 Irish College of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
  2. 2 Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  3. 3 Physiotherapist, Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists, Dublin, Ireland
  4. 4 La Trobe University Sports and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ronan Kearney, Irish College of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; ronankearney{at}rcsi.ie

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098250

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.