Muscle Strength Testing in Sports and Rehabilitation
A special issue of Sports (ISSN 2075-4663).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 790
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sports medicine; strength training; hamstring injury; ACL injury
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Muscle strength is a cornerstone of athletic performance, injury prevention, and successful rehabilitation. The accurate assessment of muscle strength—whether isometric, isotonic, or isokinetic—plays a crucial role in clinical decision making, return-to-sport criteria, and performance monitoring across diverse populations. Over the recent decades, the field has evolved from labor-intensive laboratory testing to more accessible and field-based assessments, expanding both its clinical applicability and research utility.
This Special Issue aims to highlight current advancements, challenges, and innovations in muscle strength testing across sports and rehabilitation contexts. Topics of interest include the reliability and validity of different strength assessment methods, early-phase force production, bilateral asymmetries, normative profiling, sport-specific applications, and strength test battery design. Contributions that explore the relationship between strength measures and functional performance, injury risk, or return-to-play outcomes are particularly welcome.
We encourage original research, methodological papers, and high-quality reviews that critically examine how muscle strength is measured, interpreted, and applied to both elite and general populations. Our goal is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and provide a platform for evidence-based practices that can guide clinicians, coaches, and researchers alike.
Dr. Jesper Augustsson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- muscle strength
- isometric testing
- isotonic testing
- force–time characteristics
- rehabilitation
- injury prevention
- performance diagnostics
- isokinetic dynamometry
- return to sport
- testing protocols
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