My interest in brain injuries, and most importantly the capacity to prevent them (readers may recall my blog in February regarding Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), and injury prevention for children in particular (such as my most recent post regarding hot water scalds) was stimulated again after reading the recent publication “Mechanisms of team-sport-related brain injuries in children 5 to […]
Category: Sports injury
Who pays for injuries sustained by college athletes?
On Sunday, March 31st, the US college basketball world was shocked when Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffered a very serious compound fracture of his right tibia during play in the NCAA college basketball tournament. The injury was gruesome and left many of the players standing around on the court shocked and woozy as they tried to […]
Should the NHL Mandate Visors?
The ongoing debate regarding whether visors should be mandatory safety equipment in the National Hockey League (NHL) is likely to get some renewed attention after one of the league’s players, Rangers’ Marc Staal, suffered a serious eye injury in a recent game. Warning: don’t watch the video if you are squeamish. http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/eye-injury-to-ranger-raises-issue-of-helmet-visors-again/?src=xps Visors are currently optional […]
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) – Be informed
I watched a fascinating news program last night which featured the progressive brain degeneration of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). The brain degeneration is associated with memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and, eventually, progressive dementia. See this website for more information: http://www.bu.edu/cste/about/what-is-cte/ The link between boxing and CTE was found almost a […]
Listen and learn from others to prevent injury
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Preventing injuries needs more than just researchers to develop and evaluate interventions. It also needs more than just professionals or practitioners to implement programs and safety measures. It needs both. The August 2012 46(10) issue of the British Journal of […]
Physical activity promotion without injury prevention is doomed to fail
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Arguably two of the most pressing health behaviours that need priority attention in today’s world are those needed to reduce the risk of injury (across different settings and contexts) and those required to ensure more people are more physically active. A long […]
Is it any wonder that concussion prevention is not working?
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) If any topic has to take the top prize for the most talked about sports injury issue globally in 2012, surely that has to be won by concussion, or head injury. Both scientific and public commentary has debated a range of prevention […]
Justifying BokSmart for rugby injury prevention
The June 2012, Volume 46 (8) issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine is led by the South African Sports Medicine Association and so it is fitting that it has a major focus on injury prevention in rugby union. In describing the issue, Patricios’ editorial item specifically mentions describes BokSmart which is South […]
Would you SMS for surveillance?
Could SMS (or text messaging) be used effectively to collect data for injury surveillance purposes? This is a question asked by Moller and colleagues in a paper in the June 2012, Volume 46 (7) issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. These authors wanted to monitor injuries sustained by handball players in Denmark […]
Injury surveillance, the Olympic way
As the 2012 London Olympic Games begin, so does one of the most intense injury surveillance activities. Polyclinics around the Olympic Village and competition sites are providing medical and allied health support to inured athletes, officials and members of the Olympic family. When they do so, they also contribute to the largest medical coverage […]