Measure do not guess: a call to action to end assumed and estimated menstrual cycle phases in research

BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2024 Jun 17;10(2):e002095. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2024-002095. eCollection 2024.

Richard J Burden^{1

2}, Marco Altini³, Eva Ferrer^{4

5}, Tessa R Flood², Gary Lewin⁶, Sophia Nimphius⁷, Stuart M Phillips⁸, Kirsty J Elliott-Sale²

¹ UK Sports Institute, Manchester, UK.
² Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, Manchester, UK.
³ Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Barça Innovation Hub of Football Club Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁵ Sports and Exercise Medicine Unit, Hospital Clinic and Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Arsenal Women's Football Club, London, UK.
⁷ School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
⁸ Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: Female; Methodological; Quality; Women.

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