Davies, Madeleine A. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-7340
D. Judge, Andrew
Delmestri, Antonella
P.T. Kemp, Simon
Stokes, Keith A.
Arden, Nigel K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3452-3382
Newton, Julia L.
Article History
Received: 13 December 2016
Accepted: 21 August 2017
First Online: 28 September 2017
Competing Interests
: All authors have completed the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: financial support for this study from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis (Grant reference 20194) and the Rugby Football Union. SK is employed by Rugby Football Union as their Chief Medical Officer; KS has received funding from the Rugby Football Union for projects unrelated to this work; AJ has received consultancy, lecture fees and honoraria from Servier, UK Renal Registry, Oxford Craniofacial Unit, IDIAP Jordi Gol, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has held advisory board positions (which involved receipt of fees) from Anthera Pharmaceuticals, INC., and received research sponsorship from ROCHE; NKA has received honorariums, held advisory board positions (which involved receipt of fees), and received consortium research grants from: Merck, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Roche, Novartis, Smith and Nephew, Q-MED, Nicox, Servier, GlaxoSmithKline, Schering-Plough, Pfizer, and Rottapharm