Rapidly increasing sport participation among female, woman, and girl athletes is mirrored by concerning increases in injury burden. Evidence-based injury prevention interventions can reduce injury (1-4), but getting these into routine practice remains challenging. A recent scoping review (5) examined how well injury prevention interventions are used in female/woman/girls’ sport, and which dissemination and implementation […]
Tag: Consensus
Congrats to Paul McCrory and team for the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport Consensus Statement
The 4th Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport (based on the 2012 International Conference on Concussion in Sport, Zurich) is live exclusively on the BJSM site. BJSM will be the only journal carrying 12 review papers that complement the Consensus statement. Table of Contents here. The special issue of BJSM relates to Injury Prevention and […]
Concussion in sport: The Consensus
Concussion is certainly hot this week! Lots of news stories of variable quality. Today we review the International Consensus statement itself. This practical resource was established, using a consensus-based approach, at the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2008. It updates the recommendations of the 1st (Vienna) and 2nd (Prague) International Symposia on Concussion in […]