**Author details**

Felipe Hardt1 \* and Rafael Cristiano Geiss Santos2

1 Department of Sport, School of Physical Education and Sport University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

2 Sports Medicine Department, Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

\*Address all correspondence to: hardt@usp.br

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