In soccer, critical match events like goal attempts can be preceded by periods of instability in the balance between the two teams' behaviours. Therefore, we determined periods of high variability in the distance between the teams' centroid positions longitudinally and laterally in an international-standard …

The aim of this study was to prospectively monitor sport-specific performance and assess the stress-recovery balance in overreached (OR) soccer players and controls. During two competitive seasons, 94 players participated in the study. The stress-recovery balance (RESTQ-Sport) and sport-specific performance …

Inleiding. Een syndesmosis blessure wordt vaak niet herkend in de medische setting en wordt vaak verkeerd gediagnosticeerd, zoals lateraal bandletsel. Herkenning van de aandoening en directe aandacht voor de unieke complexiteit van het gewricht verkleint de kans op comorbiditeit en voorkomt een vertraagde …

Achtergrond: Chronische liesblessures hebben een aandeel van 15% in alle sportblessures. De ernst kan soms zodanig zijn dat ze kunnen leiden tot beëindiging van sportcarrières. De biomechanica van het bekken speelt een belangrijke rol bij chronische liesblessures. Welke rol dit speelt binnen de conservatief …

To optimize performance, coaches and athletes are always looking for the right balance between training load and recovery. Therefore, closely monitoring of athletes is important. Heart rate recovery (HRR) after standardized sub maximal exercise has been proposed as a useful variable to monitor (Lamberts …

This research is part of a comprehensive PhD research project that focuses on the existence and development of leadership in sport management practices. The underpinning factors that are associated with successfully leading top teams in sport are often used as an example in regard to being successful …

Achtergrond: Op jaarbasis bestaat 5% tot 18% uit alle sportverwondingen binnen Nederlland uit lies gerelateerde klachten. Het beeld laat zien dat er een verhoogde kans op liesklachten is bij sporten waar wenden, keren, deceleraties en heup abductie met hoge intensiteit in terug komt. Binnen de lies gerelateerde …

Across all health care settings, certain patients are perceived as ‘difficult’ by clinicians. This paper’s aim is to understand how certain patients come to be perceived and labelled as ‘difficult’ patients in community mental health care, through mixed-methods research in The Netherlands between June …

We thank the authors Hayden and Glenn for commenting on our paper ‘The introduction of a nursing guideline on depression at psychogeriatric nursing home wards: Effects on Certified Nurse Assistants’, which was published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies (Verkaik et al., 2011). In our paper …