Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) There is irrefutable evidence that injury prevention efforts will only work if the people they are intended for, such as sports participants, actually adopt them (e.g. Finch, 2006). More recently, however, it has become recognised that whether or not they do so, […]
Category: Sports injury
Preventing overuse, not just acute and traumatic, injuries matters in youth sport
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Readers of this journal would be fully aware of international definitions of injury based on the energy-exchange causation theory proposed by early injury researchers such as Haddon. Such definitions have led much prevention research to focus on acute traumatic injuries only. In […]
Physical activity promotion has nothing to gain from injury prevention! Fact or Fiction?
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Volume 48, Issue 3 is devoted to physical activity promotion and “Exercise as Medicine”. However, as the deliberately provocative title of this particular cross IP-BJSM Blog indicates, there is nothing in any of the papers […]
Concussion in Sport. The injury issue that will not go away
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Few types of sports injury have received as much attention as concussion . It’s an issue that has witnessed increasing attention in the public media, dominating several social media discussions, and also has been the subject of previous IP Blogs. So important is […]
Do we have enough knowledge to prevent the sorts of injuries that occurred during the Sochi Winter Games?
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) After a hiatus of about a year, I am returning to writing my Injury Prevention to British Journal of Sports Medicine cross-fertilisation blogs. As I said in my first such item on the IP Blog, we need to break down injury research […]
Overcoming obstacles encountered in translating research into practice
Regular readers of the injury prevention blog will know I have commented on a number of occasions regarding the need to (1) share our research findings, and (2) translate research into practice and policy. Whilst this is the ideal, I also realise that there are many obstacles to this being the actual, another topic […]
Improving reporting in injury prevention research
A recent Editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine by O’Brien, Donaldson, Barbery, and Finch addresses an important element in injury prevention research: the completeness of the intervention reporting. The RE-AIM framework can be used as a tool to facilitate the translation of research into practice. It can be used from the earliest phases […]
The potential for social marketing in injury prevention
I came across an interesting paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine this week, titled “Social marketing: why injury prevention needs to adopt this behaviour change approach” (read more at http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2012/05/02/bjsports-2011-090567.extract). The Authors recognise the prominent push for individuals of all ages, sizes, and experience to increasingly participate in sporting activities. Whilst the general […]
Guidance for bridging the great divide between research and practice: Preventing injuries in sport
Building on from my theme in last week’s blog, I came across this interesting article this morning. Whilst injury prevention in sports is not my domain of research, nor may it be the research domain of many readers of the Injury Prevention blog, the principles and practices contained within can guide researchers trying to bridge […]
Distractions – a growing injury issue moving beyond the car?
Distracted driving has justifiably received a tremendous amount of attention in the injury prevention field. But the issue of distractions and the associated injury risk might be getting even bigger and becoming more relevant outside of the motor vehicle realm. There is lots of interesting speculation about an impending boom in wearable computing. Several major […]