Over recent years there has been increasing concern that some children are being exposed to increasing levels of injury risk because they are playing too much sport. The issue is particularly pertinent for children who are identified as having sporting talent and who may be participating in intensive sporting competitions over a short period […]
Category: Sports injury
End-user considerations are important for successful injury prevention implementation planning and better sports medicine screening decision making
Successful prevention program implementation and dissemination of advice requires careful planning. An editorial by Donaldson and Finch in the April 2012 46(5) issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) stresses that such planning must be strategic, systematic and contextual. This editorial also emphasises that the perspectives of the end-users in relation to […]
Twitter for dissemination of injury messages – more discussion about primary prevention needed
In his recent blog about Twitter feeds for injury prevention, Editor Brian Johnston highlights the value of this social media tool for keeping abreast of injury prevention knowledge. His message is aimed mainly at the researcher, practitioner and policy readers of Injury Prevention. As someone who has been actively using and accessing Twitter over […]
The scope, focus and quality of international sports injury prevention research
In the (almost) two decades that I have been working in injury research, I have witnessed increasing attention to sports injury prevention and the conduct of many new studies into this important issue. The area has moved from being almost exclusively focussed on only describing the injury problem through case series reports to a […]
Hamstring muscle injuries – a challenge for sport and injury prevention
Hamstring injuries are a major problem in sport, both because of their frequency and the fact that they are known to be highly recurrent (up to 30%). These injuries do not feature prominently in hospital-based injury data collections because they are generally treated outside of the hospital setting, but injury surveillance studies conducted directly with […]
Sports injury prevention action – approaches from a peak international sports body and getting it onto public health agendas
2012 promises to be another year of substantive sports injury prevention action and what better way to start it than by learning from FIFA, the peak international sports body governing football (or soccer) programs worldwide. The January 2012 issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine includes a paper by Fuller, Junge and Dvorak from […]
Mechanisms and risk factors for snow sport injuries
In addition to several papers relating to the translation of safety advice (see my Injury Prevention blog of 5th December), the December, Volume 45(16), Injury Prevention and Health Promotion issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Injury Prevention’s sister journal, also included several papers from Norway about snow-sport related injuries. In the paper by […]
Implementing sports injury prevention – improving translation and dissemination of advice
The December, Volume 45(16), Injury Prevention and Health Promotion issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Injury Prevention’s sister journal, has three papers with strong messages about how sports injury prevention efforts could be enhanced through better translation of scientific evidence or different targeting of messages. The Editor’s choice paper by Finch, summarizes the […]
Rugby injury surveillance and the provision of defibrillators at sports universities
Injury researchers interested in either injury surveillance in elite sport or the provision of medical devices as a preventive measure in case of injury will be interested in two papers published in the December, Volume 45(15), issue of Injury Prevention’s sister journal, the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In the first paper by Taylor et […]
The importance of training loads in sports injury risk and return-to-play
The November issue of the IP’s sister journal, the British Journal of Sports Medicine, is largely devoted to the health and injury concerns of endurance athletes. By the very nature of endurance events, these athletes perform under extreme physical conditions and need to prepare by undertaking very large amounts of training, that would seem excessive […]