Translating evidence to clinical practice: how long is too long?

By Rebecca Blyth A ground-breaking study in 2002 suggested that arthroscopic debridement or lavage of the knee joint was no better than placebo surgery[1], yet this is a still a surgical option today.  It’s confirmed that the benefits from arthroscopic knee surgery in degenerative knee disease are absent at one to two years follow-up and […]

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E-letter: Anticipatory regulation are cognitive and affective processes involved?

I read your fascinating article with much interest. Do you think that in simple terms that anticipatory regulation may be an aspect of the decision-making the athlete makes before execution of an action. In the instance of longer duration exercise eg a marathon a decision is made then physiological systems amongst others come into action as you have described. Prior […]

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