JOURNAL RELEASE - Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Hello STMS Members,

I am writing to inform you of a fantastic forthcoming issue of the journal “Sports Health” that will be coming out in January 2026. This issue of the journal will have a tennis focused section of 8 articles, many written by our STMS colleagues, that have traversed through the extensive peer review process and will be published. It has been great working with Dr Johansson and the Sports Health team as co-editors of this special tennis section in the January 2026 issue of Sports Health.

Sports Health is a journal that is unique in focus encompassing sports medicine from multiple perspectives and is distributed to all members of the NATA, APTA Academy of Sports Physical Therapy, AOSSM, and AMSSM which many of our members are active in. it is read by physios, athletic trainers, orthopaedic surgeons, and primary care sports medicine physicians as the primary focus. The accepted articles in this issue include 2 papers on return to sport following injury in elite tennis players, a study on wearable technology and sleep, effects of a tennis specific warm-up in recreational players, and imaging issues for lateral epicondylitis. Additionally, studies in junior players regarding sport specialization, shoulder injury, and several studies on injury epidemiology are included as well as an interesting paper on motor imagery and the service motion.

Special thanks to Dr Johansson for his efforts on behalf of STMS to make this issue a possibility, and of course thanks to our STMS members who submitted papers for this issue. A complete list of articles included and an introductory discussion precedes the papers in this issue in an editorial written by Dr Johansson and I overviewing this special issue focusing on tennis.

I hope you all had a great finish to 2025 year and wonderful holiday season.

Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT, MS, OCS, CSCS, FAPTA

ATP Medical Services & Banner Sports Medicine, Scottsdale

Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach