Affiliations

• ¹ Sports Medicine, SportNI Sports Institute, Newtownabbey, UK.
• ² Sports Medicine NI, Belfast, UK.
• ³ Medical and Anti-Doping Department, Federation Internationale de Football Association, Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Sport Medicine Department, World Rugby, Dublin, Ireland.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
• ⁶ ATP Medical Services, Ponte Vedra, Florida, USA.
• ⁷ Australian Football League, Docklands, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁸ St Andrew's House Edinburgh, Scottish Government Sport and Physical Activity Policy Team, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• ⁹ Sports Medicine, Scottish Institute of Sport, Stirling, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Immunology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Microbiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹² Medical Department, British Cycling, Manchester, UK.
• ¹³ Sports Medicine, Sport Wales, Cardiff, UK.
• ¹⁴ Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Abercynon, Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK.
• ¹⁵ Medicine, USA Cycling, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
• ¹⁶ School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
• ¹⁷ Trauma and Orthopaedics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK.
• ¹⁸ Public Health/SEM, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁹ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ²⁰ AMC/VUmc IOC Research Center of Excellence, Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²¹ Sports Medicine, Sport Scotland Institute of Sport, Stirling, UK.
• ²² Department of Family Practice, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK neilheron@yahoo.co.uk.