THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT ILITATION? Stares and colleagues report that achieving high running workloads following lower limb injury delays return to play but protects from subsequent injury. positioning protocols. Boddy’s groupreactivation and sympathetic withdrawal report a comparison of wrist worn following upper and lower-body exercise.ABOUT THE AUTHOR and hip worn accelerometers in Harris’ group report the comparison of children’s sedentary time estimatesa group fitness class and steady stateGordon S. Waddingtonis the and Rhodes and co-workers describecycling. Pollard and co-workers describeEditor-in-Chief of The Journal of the use of in-home cycling equipmentthe ball in play demands of internationalScience and Medicine in Sport. by parents and their inactive children.rugby. Williams, Russell, Cook and Kilduff Hardy, Merom, Thomas and Peralta report no effects of vascular occlusion suggest that from 1985 to 2015 thereon physiologic or vascular markers has been a significant reduction in response to sprinting or physicalThe Journal of Science and Medicine in standing broad jump distance. stress tests. In the final article in thisin Sport, published by Sports section, Haycraft, Kovalchik, Pyne, LarkinMedicine Australia (SMA), is the In the sport and exercise science and Robertson suggest that age selectionmajor refereed research publication section Lee’s team report the impactbias continues with a relative age effecton sports science and medicine of compression tights in reducing theexisting across AFL U16, state andin Australia. The Journal provides impact of an orthostatic challenge innational levels. high quality, original research papers normal individuals. Chen and colleagues to keep members and subscribers provide evidence of a protective effectThe October 2018 issue of the informed of developments in sports on muscle damage of moderate pre- Journal of Science and Medicine science and medicine. Produced for exercise of the contralateral limb priorin Sport continues to provide a broadSMA 12 times a year by Elsevier to the main exercise bout. Dodd andinterdisciplinary range of high qualityAustralia, it reflects SMA’s Newans describe a physiologic testingevidence for those practicing in thecommitment to encouraging world- battery for talent identification in football.fields of science and medicine in sport.class research within the industry, Michael, Jay, Graham and Davis report and its commitment to the continuing a study examining indirect measures education of its members. Journal of post-exercise parasympathetic articles can be found at jsams.org VOLUME 36 • ISSUE 2 2018 29