# Sports Journal Arabia > Sports Journal Arabia covers sports medicine, human performance and longevity in sport: the science of injury and recovery, the athletes extending their careers, and the research keeping bodies in the game, from the Gulf to the world. Contact: editor@sportsjournalarabia.com Website: https://sportsjournalarabia.com/ ## Sports Medicine - [The Tommy John Epidemic: Why Baseball Elbows Keep Breaking](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/tommy-john-ucl-surgery-baseball/): Elbow blowouts are at record highs in professional baseball, and the data points squarely at one culprit: throwing harder than ever. - [How Qatar's Aspetar Made the Gulf a Sports-Medicine Capital](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/aspetar-qatar-sports-medicine/): From a single specialist hospital in Doha to the Doha agreement on hamstring injuries, the Gulf has built sports-medicine institutions the world now travels to. - [PRP, Stem Cells and the Orthobiologic Hype in Sport](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/regenerative-medicine-prp-stem-cells-sport/): Injections of platelet-rich plasma and stem cells are everywhere in elite sport. The marketing has raced far ahead of the evidence. - [Concussion in Sport: What the Protocols Get Right, and What CTE Research Still Cannot Prove](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/concussion-cte-protocols/): Sideline protocols have improved sharply. The link between repeated head impacts and long-term brain disease is real but still imperfectly understood. - [The Science of ACL Reconstruction and Return to Play](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/acl-reconstruction-return-to-play/): Graft choice, the nine-month rule and why criteria, not the calendar, should decide when an athlete plays again. ## Performance - [Wearables in Elite Sport: The Promise and the Noise](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/wearables-elite-sport/): Catapult vests, recovery bands and glucose sensors promise to quantify the athlete completely. The data is real, but separating signal from noise is the hard part. - [Sleep: The Most Underrated Tool in Sport](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/sleep-and-athletic-performance/): No supplement or recovery gadget comes close to the performance return of a few extra hours of sleep, yet it is the variable athletes neglect most. - [Fueling for the Work Required: The New Science of Sports Nutrition](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/sports-nutrition-fueling-science/): The old wisdom of eating less to get leaner is giving way to a more demanding idea: feed the training you are actually doing, and feed it properly. - [Force Plates and the Data Revolution in Strength Training](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/force-plates-biomechanics-strength/): Velocity sensors and force plates have turned the weight room into a measurement lab. The promise is real, but reading the numbers well is still a coaching skill. - [VO2 Max: The Science of Endurance's Most Important Number](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/vo2-max-endurance-science/): It is the single most cited figure in endurance physiology, but the science of how to raise it, and what it really predicts, is more interesting than the number alone. ## Longevity - [How Elite Athletes Keep Winning Into Their 40s](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/extending-athletic-careers/): LeBron, Ronaldo, Brady, Djokovic and Serena pushed peak performance a decade past where it used to end. The methods that did it apply far beyond elite sport. - [Exercise Is the Best Longevity Drug We Have](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/exercise-as-medicine-zone-2-longevity/): No pill matches the mortality data behind cardiorespiratory fitness. Here is what the evidence says about VO2 max, zone 2 and how much exercise is enough. - [Muscle Is an Organ of Longevity, Not Just Vanity](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/muscle-mass-sarcopenia-longevity/): Strength and muscle mass predict how long and how well you live. The science of sarcopenia, grip strength and lifting explains why, and what to do about it. - [What Masters Athletes Teach Us About Getting Old](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/masters-athletes-aging-science/): The decline curves of masters athletes separate aging that is inevitable from aging that is simply disuse. The gap is larger than most people assume. - [Recovery Science: What Works, What Is Overhyped](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/recovery-science-cold-sauna-hyperbaric/): Cold plunges, saunas, hyperbaric chambers and compression boots all promise faster recovery. The evidence ranges from genuinely strong to largely marketing. ## Athletes - [Ankiti Bose, Terra Future Health Group and the New Longevity Economy for Athletes](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/ankiti-bose-sports-longevity/): Inside the thesis of Terra-Invest's Founding Partner: athletes are no longer just brand faces, but owners and partners in diagnostics, longevity and performance health. - [The Founders Building the Athlete-Longevity Industry](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/sports-tech-founders-to-watch/): From WHOOP straps to Catapult vests to Hyperice recovery devices, a small group of founders is building the infrastructure of athlete healthspan. Here is who they are. - [Novak Djokovic's Longevity: Gluten, Flexibility and the Limits of the Story](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/novak-djokovic-recovery-longevity/): A gluten-free diet, extreme mobility, breathing practice and meticulous recovery underpin one of tennis's longest peaks. The evidence is stronger in some places than others. - [Cristiano Ronaldo at 40: What His Longevity Regimen Actually Proves](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/cristiano-ronaldo-longevity-regimen/): Training load, fragmented sleep, a lean diet and obsessive recovery have kept Ronaldo elite past 40. Separating the documented from the embellished is harder than it sounds. - [LeBron James and the $1.5 Million Body: How Longevity Became Infrastructure](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/articles/lebron-james-body-investment/): The reported $1.5 million a year is not vanity spending. It is a model of treating recovery, sleep and biomechanics as infrastructure, and it has changed how the NBA thinks about aging. ## More - [About Sports Journal Arabia](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/about/) - [Editorial standards](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/editorial-standards/) - [RSS feed](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/rss.xml) - [Sitemap](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/sitemap-index.xml) - [News sitemap](https://sportsjournalarabia.com/news-sitemap.xml) Note: cover images on this site are simple AI-generated illustrations, not photographs.