The September 2011 (Issue 45) of the BJSM is devoted to how sport can be used as a setting to ensure fitness and health for all children. Too often, discussion of this topic has ignored the vexed issue of injury risk in such activity, presumably because physical activity promoters do not want any possible adverse […]
Month: October 2011
Implementing & disseminating sports injury prevention
It seems that at every scientific forum I now attend, and every injury prevention policy meeting I am part of, there is a call for better understanding of how to get target end-users to adopt injury prevention measures and how to get practitioners to implement sustainable policies. And perhaps the loudest call has come from […]
A new word: Paraprosdokian
Ian Scott introduced me to a new word “paraprosdokian’ — “a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.” Wikipedia adds: “It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, […]