Correction to: Sports Med Open (2018) 4:28.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-018-0134-3
The editors have retracted this article [1] because it contains substantial text and figure overlap with the following articles [2–5]. The first author, Monèm Jemni, has not confirmed whether he agrees or disagrees with this retraction; the second and third authors, Mohammad Shoaib Prince and Julien S. Baker, agree with this retraction.
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