Sport-specific guides, sourced from the research.

Trail running, water polo, judo and team sports each have a distinct injury profile. Ankle inversions dominate trail; the shoulder dominates water polo; knee and shoulder dominate judo; hamstring recurrence and ACL risk dominate team sports. The best prevention work for each is sport-specific, not generic — and the literature has matured to the point where the sport-by-sport recommendations are actually concrete.

Our sport-specific guides walk through the load patterns each sport produces, the injury distribution that follows from those patterns, the prevention work with the strongest evidence, and the things athletes commonly get wrong. Each guide links the source literature for anyone who wants to read past the summary.

We cover four sports in depth right now. The selection follows reader requests and the topics we have the strongest evidence base for — adding more sports requires us to be confident we can cover them at the same depth, which usually means a research review and consultation with sport-specific clinicians.