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. 2025 Jan;55(1):241-242.
doi: 10.1007/s40279-024-02141-x. Epub 2024 Dec 24.

Limited Evidence is Not No Evidence: A Rebuttal to Fransen, 2024

Lawrence G Appelbaum  1 , Liam Lochhead  2 , Jiren Feng  2 , Graham Erickson  3 , Sicong Liu  4 , Daniel M Laby  5
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Limited Evidence is Not No Evidence: A Rebuttal to Fransen, 2024

Lawrence G Appelbaum et al. Sports Med. 2025 Jan.
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Declarations. Funding: Not applicable. This letter was completed without any financial support. Conflicts of Interest: All authors confirm that they have no conflicts of interest. Ethics Approval: Not applicable. Consent to Participate: Not applicable. Consent for Publication: Not applicable. Availability of Data and Material: Not applicable. Code Availability: Not applicable. Authors' Contributions: Lawrence G. Appelbaum: conceptualization, writing—original draft, and writing—review and editing; Liam Lochhead: writing—original draft and writing—review and editing; Jiren Feng: writing—original draft, and writing—review and editing; Graham Erickson: writing—review and editing; Sicong Liu: writing—review and editing; Daniel M. Laby: conceptualization, writing—original draft and writing—review and editing. All authors read and approved the final version of this letter.

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