Muscle and tendon injuries are prevalent in both tactical (military, law enforcement, fire services) and sporting populations, often leading to significant time-loss, reduced performance, and long-term health consequences. These injuries can result from a variety of mechanisms, including acute trauma, overuse, and inadequate recovery. Understanding the commonalities and differences in injury mechanisms, as well as developing effective prevention and rehabilitation strategies, is crucial for maintaining the health and performance of individuals in these demanding fields.

This Research Topic aims to enhance our understanding of injury mechanisms across different populations and activities and promote the development of effective, evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation strategies which foster interdisciplinary collaboration to improve health and performance outcomes. We seek research that addresses the following criteria:

• Research in physically active populations (including either sporting or tactical populations). This can include research on any level of sporting participation (recreational to elite sport) as well as any tactical population (military, law enforcement, fire services).

• Muscle and/ or tendon injuries to any body region. This can include upper-limb (e.g., rotator cuff), lower-limb (gastrocnemius) or trunk (e.g., abdominal oblique) injury.

• Injury resulting from any mechanism. This can include acute trauma (e.g., tendon rupture, muscle tear), overuse (e.g., tendinopathy), or physiological responses to training (e.g., delayed onset muscle soreness).

• Focussed on the epidemiology, aetiology, diagnosis, prevention or management of injuries in physically active populations.

This call for research includes the following submission types: Original Research, Systematic Review, Scoping Review, Narrative Review, Policy and Practice Review, Study Protocol, Mini Review, Perspective, Case Report, Brief Research Report, General Commentary and Opinion.

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