It is widely agreed that protective gear is a key to secondary prevention i.e., once a harmful force has been launched, the effect is diminished by the use of various forms of padding, shielding, etc. Such measures are especially common in sports. Thus, professional players in most contact sports now use helmets in part because […]
Category: Sports injury
Sports injury prevention needs more than just organized sport
Analyses of routinely-collected injury hospitalisation data show that sport and leisure activities are a common setting for injury, despite limitations in the application current international classification of diseases (ICD) coding schemes (Finch & Boufous 2008). Currently, routine data sources that rely on ICD-9 or ICD-10 coded data are unable to separately identify injuries that occur […]
Concussion in sport: new hints about the content of concussion management messages and the timing of interventions
Perhaps the most discussed sports injury issue in the public media over that past 1-2 years has been concussion and its potential for adverse long-term effects. Commentary in this journal earlier this year called for prevention of concussion to be a public health priority. Two papers published in the Vol 45, Issue 12 (September 2011) […]
The challenge of injury prevention for children in sport
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 […]
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 […]