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With the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup now underway, Andreas Serner et al. give us a look back at some learnings from the previous tournament.
Read the full article: https://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(25)00438-4/fulltext

Football makes the world (and head?!) go round.
JSAMS special issue "Concussion and Head Impacts in Football" is now free to read online. Embrace the buzz of the upcoming men's FIFA World Cup 2026 and dive into these 17 articles from across the globe focusing on brain health in football.
Access the issue here: https://zurl.co/XWug7

JSAMS Volume 29, Issue 5 – May 2026 is live.
🔗 Read it here: https://zurl.co/QDX36

Editor’s Choice articles are free for everyone to access for a limited time. Subscribers can explore the full issue, featuring research across sport and exercise medicine, exercise therapy, sports injury, physical activity and public health, and sport and exercise science.

Doherty et al used post competition athlete surveys and medical notes from ringside physicians to measure differences in combat sports injury reporting.
Read the article: https://zurl.co/a9mrq

"How to make sport less risky, more effective as a treatment and fairer for later-born children" - read the March editorial from Editor-in-Chief Tim Meyer here: https://zurl.co/0bFpr

A possible mechanism for changing injury proneness during the menstrual cycle, a consensus about tailored exercise for hyperlipidemia, and blood pressure in young athletes - Editor-in-Chief Professor Tim Meyer highlights three key topics in this issue.

Read the editorial: https://zurl.co/TZ2gy

JSAMS Volume 29, Issue 4 – April 2026 is live.
🔗 Read it here: https://zurl.co/vqHa2

Editor’s Choice articles are free for everyone to access for a limited time. Subscribers can explore the full issue, featuring research across sport and exercise medicine, exercise therapy, sports injury, physical activity and public health, and sport and exercise science.

Through systematic video analysis of Liga F players, ACL injuries were commonly linked to high-risk actions like pressing, tackling and dribbling, and are often influenced by neurocognitive errors and decision-making under pressure.
Full article: https://zurl.co/IoVDj

"A new way of grading severity of ACL rupture on acute MRI to consider potential for non-surgical healing with the Cross Bracing Protocol: ACL Acute Rupture Characteristics for Healing (ACL-ARCH) MRI criteria"
Read the article: https://zurl.co/BW21f