The journal Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy, Technology (SMARTT), has transferred to the BMC series of journals and has been re-launched as BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation. All previous content published in SMARTT is available from the BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation website.
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Editor's choice collection: The Tokyo Summer Games
This retrospective collection showcases the full spectrum of research into sports represented at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Ranging from injury epidemiology, nutrition, psychology to infectious disease risk, explore selected articles, related to this Summer's Games, published in BMC Series journals.
NEW Call for papers: Evidencing the Impact of Diet on Sports Performance
We are pleased to announce that BMC Nutrition and BMC Sports Science, Medicine, and Rehabilitation are now accepting submissions to a new cross-journal article collection covering basic and clinical research into how diet influences sport performance and exercise.
Supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
BMC is committed to supporting efforts to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by helping researchers to disseminate and showcase their work. We aim to support policy-makers, governments, and humanitarian organizations in making evidence-based decisions to advance good health and wellbeing (SDG 3) and reduce inequalities (SDG 10).
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July: Open data and data sharing
Data are the cornerstones to transparency and reproducibility of research. At the BMC Series, we offer different article types to help you share your data. Explore some of our open access data publications in this focus issue and browse through the additional reading and resources to learn more about this topic.
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June: Water and Sanitation.
In celebration of World Environment Day on the 5th June, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Water and Sanitation. We have collated open-access content from across our journals to highlight research into clean water, investigating links between water and health and our overall relationship with water.
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Fitness for all: how do non-disabled people respond to inclusive fitness centres?
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Preoperative walking recommendation for non-cardiac surgery patients to reduce the length of hospital stay: a randomized control trial
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Effectiveness and safety of a simple home-based rehabilitation program in pulmonary arterial hypertension: an interventional pilot study
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Effects of acute exercise on spontaneous physical activity in mice at different ages
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Understanding acute ankle ligamentous sprain injury in sports
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Clinical examination of the knee: know your tools for diagnosis of knee injuries
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Role of biomechanics in the understanding of normal, injured, and healing ligaments and tendons
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How to squat? Effects of various stance widths, foot placement angles and level of experience on knee, hip and trunk motion and loading
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation 2020 12:7
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The treatment of medial tibial stress syndrome in athletes; a randomized clinical trial
Aims and scope
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation is an open access, peer reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of sports medicine and the exercise sciences, including rehabilitation, traumatology, cardiology, physiology, and nutrition.
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Supporting equity in academic publishing
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You can publish your data in BMC Genomic Data (genomic, transcriptomic and high-throughput genotype data) or in BMC Research Notes (data from across all natural and clinical sciences).
More information about our unique article type can be found on the BMC Genomic Data and BMC Research Notes journal websites.
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