Background: Chronic hip and groin pain offers a diagnostic challenge for the sports
medicine practitioner. Recent consensus suggests diagnostic categorization based on 5 …

Background Estrogen plays a major role in the delayed expression of coronary heart
disease (CHD) in women, and recent data indicate that postmenopausal estrogen therapy …

Background. Sustained low-efficiency daily dialysis (SLEDD) is an increasingly popular
renal replacement therapy for intensive care unit (ICU) patients. SLEDD has been previously …

Objectives The gut microbiome has begun to be characterised in athlete groups, albeit, to
date, only across a subset of sports. This study aimed to determine if the gut microbiome and …

Aims. To assess two years experience of necrotizing fasciitis in the Department of Intensive
Care Medicine (DICM), Middlemore Hospital, and to investigate a possible link with non …

Background. Prolonged intermittent renal replacement therapy (PIRRT) is a dialysis modality
for critically ill patients that in theory combines the superior detoxification and …

Contributors The idea for the editorial was developed by LSS, NNR, MSR, JC and SA. LSS
and NNR composed the initial draft and contributed equally to this paper and want to …

Background: In high-level adult athletes, injury incidences and characteristics have been
reported during international championships and during one season. Youth track and field …

Background: Postpartum women frequently engage in running. In the absence of official
guidance on returning-to-running postpartum, physical therapists rely on clinical experience …

The human intestinal tract is home to approximately 100 trillion microbes with the majority of
these residing in the colon. Most microbes in the human intestinal tract are bacteria but …