Joseph Matthews

Lecturer in Sports Therapy

School of Health Sciences

Email:: Joseph.matthews@bcu.ac.uk

Joe is a Lecturer in Sports Therapy at Birmingham City University with an interest in sports nutrition and muscle physiology. His research focuses on the physiological roles of carnosine and β-alanine, with applications in insulin-resistance and type-2 diabetic skeletal muscle. He has also published several projects on rapid weight loss/gain in combat sport athletes and the risks associated with making-weight, with the aim to help drive change to protect the health and wellbeing of athletes.

Joe has experience working across a range of professional sports teams and organisations including Wasps RFC, Coventry United Women’s FC, Luton Town FC, Movement Therapy Clinics, and The Fire Fighters Charity. He maintains a private practice working with professional athletes and is a member of the Sport and Exercise Nutrition register (SENr).

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Lakicevic, N., Matthews, J. J., Artioli, G. G., Paoli, A., Roklicer, R., Trivic, T., ... & Drid, P. (2022). Patterns of weight cycling in youth Olympic combat sports: a systematic review. Journal of Eating Disorders, 10(1), 1-9.

Matthews, J. J., Dolan, E., Swinton, P. A., Santos, L., Artioli, G. G., Turner, M. D., ... & Sale, C. (2021). Effect of carnosine or β-alanine supplementation on markers of glycemic control and insulin resistance in humans and animals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Advances in Nutrition, 12(6), 2216-2231. doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmab087.

Money-Taylor, E., Dobbin, N., Gregg, R., Matthews, J.J., & Esen, O. (2021). Differences in attitudes, behaviours and beliefs towards eating between female bodybuilding athletes and non‑athletes, and the implications for eating disorders and disordered eating. Sport Sciences for Health, 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s11332-021-00775-2.

Burke, L.M., Slater, G., Matthews, J.J., Langan-Evans, C.E., & Horswill, C.A. (2021). ACSM Expert Consensus Statement on Weight Loss in Weight-Category Sports. Clinical Sports Medicine Reports, 20(4), 199-217. doi: 10.1249/jsr.0000000000000831.

Matthews, J. J., Dolan, E., Swinton, P. A., Santos, L., Artioli, G. G., Turner, M. D., ... & Sale, C. (2020). The effect of carnosine or β-alanine supplementation on markers of glycaemic control and insulin resistance in human and animal studies: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews. 9:282. doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01539-8.

Godwin, M., Matthews, J., Stanhope, E., & Richards, K. (2020). Intra and intersession reliability of the Run RocketTM in recreationally trained participants. Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, 16(1). doi: 10.14198/jhse.2021.161.05.

Matthews, J.J. (2020). Combat Sport Nutrition: A Pragmatic Case Study in an Elite Mixed Martial Arts Athlete. SportRxiv. January 3, 2020. doi: 10.31236/osf.io/bgnst.

Matthews, J.J., Artioli, G.G., Turner, M.D., & Sale, C. (2019). The physiological roles of carnosine and β-alanine in exercising human skeletal muscle. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 51(10), 2098-2108. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002033.

Matthews, J.J., Stanhope, E.N., Godwin, M.S., Holmes, M.E.J., & Artioli, G.G. (2018). Rapid weight loss and rapid weight gain in combat sport athletes preparing for competition: a systematic review. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 29(4), 441-452. doi: 10.1123/ijsnem.2018-0165.

Matthews, J.J., & Nicholas, C. (2017). Extreme rapid weight loss and rapid weight gain observed in UK mixed martial arts athletes preparing for competition. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 27(2), 122-129. doi: 10.1123/ijsnem.2016-0174.