STRIKERS Elite Sports Group

Clinical Research for Health, Performance & Human Potential

Integrated sport science, performance medicine, and clinical research from STRIKERS Elite Sports Group, supported by the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews and collaborators from leading international sporting and healthcare organisations.

What STRIKERS Stands For
SSpecialist
TTreatment
RRehabilitation
IInjuries
KKicking
EExplosive
RRunning
SSports
Collaborative institutions and partners
Collaborative institutions and partners
Our research

Current projects

Performance Medicine Integrative Framework
Scoping Review + Framework Synthesis
Performance Medicine

Defining an emerging field — the PMIF, Operational Specification, and Assessment Tool for integrated health and human performance systems.

SMEC Framework
Epidemiology + Event Medicine
Sports Medicine Event Care

Characterising the landscape of sports medicine event care — injury epidemiology, service design, and evidence-based frameworks for event medical provision.

ACL Reconstruction Outcomes
Retrospective Cohort · Orthopaedics
ACL Reconstruction Outcomes

Clinical, functional, and sport-related outcomes following ACL reconstruction — analysis of 512 consecutive patients at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh.

SCOPING REVIEW · HIFT · PRISMA-ScR Rise and Occasional Demise of the Hybrid Athlete Musculoskeletal and broader health impacts of high-intensity functional training 60 studies 501 screened 12,261 participants 5 databases "Benefits substantially outweigh MSK risks identified"
Performance Science
Hybrid Athlete

Defining and characterising the hybrid athlete — concurrent training, physiological demands, and evidence-based support for this emerging performance archetype.

Retired Athlete Knee Health
Scoping Review · Sports Medicine
Retired Athlete Knee Health

Long-term knee health in former football and rugby players — disease risks, evidence gaps, and research priorities across 37 studies and 17,162 players.

SCOPING REVIEW · GOVERNANCE & EVIDENCE Artificial Intelligence in Sport, Exercise & Musculoskeletal Medicine Applications, evidence, governance & priorities for responsible implementation 139 sources 4 SEM domains 10 of 11 frameworks voluntary 1 binding "Implementation is most defensible where scale is the benefit"
Scoping Review · Governance & Evidence Synthesis
AI in Sport, Exercise & Musculoskeletal Medicine

Mapping the evidence, regulatory landscape, and priorities for responsible AI implementation across 139 sources spanning biomedicine, informatics, and regulation.

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