In the April 2014 issue, I highlighted a new service from SAVIR and SafetyLit – a searchable repository of injury-related data collection instruments. In follow-up correspondence, Kavi Bhalla points out that the injuries group in the global burden of disease study had also compiled a collection of instruments with questions related to measuring injury incidence. Interested? You […]
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When you run, does it matter what you wear on your feet?
The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Volume 48, Issue 5 includes several papers relating to joint stability and its relationship to musculoskeletal injury. Verrelst et al. show that hip and thorax joint stability, as measured by range of motion, can contribute to the development of tibial (shin) pain in female physical education students. Gehring et al. demonstrate that mechanical ankle instability is related to the mechanism behind ankle sprains in “close-to-injury” scenarios in a lab-based study.
But it is two papers that highlight the multidimensional nature of risk factors associated with running injuries that particularly caught my eye – especially for their discussions of footwear. […]
If coaches are to deliver sports safety programmes, they need to be taught the HOW not just the WHAT
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, […]
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 […]
Safety defects in GM cars: the role of industry and government
This is verbatim from an article in the New York Times, via Lombardo. When we think about injury prevention we must never lose sight of the major role government has to play, especially when ensuring the safety of dangerous products. One of the most dangerous, in my view, is the automobile. “What we do know […]
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 […]
A radical step in injury prevention – preventing table-saw injuries
After blogging “Table saw 1, Injury-free arm and hand 0” on the 20th of May last year, I have remained alert to news regarding installation of injury prevention devices on table saws. Pleasingly my father has left the building industry with all his digits and limbs intact, however other table-saw users have not fared to […]
Grumpy over-protective Nanny Barry
Am I the only person in the injury prevention world who watched the Olympics with a mixture of admiration and condemnation? What struck me — and perhaps only me — was that virtually every one of the ‘sports’ were dangerous. The danger element ranged from simple falls on the ice for dancers without helmets to […]