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Rearview reflections: the role of perspective, context, and transparency in research
[Sheree Bekker] In this blog post, physiotherapist Tracy Blake, shares some key insights from both her injury prevention research and her experiences conducting research. In doing so, she shares some valuable considerations and implications. Tracy Blake is a physiotherapist with over 12 years experience in the sport, orthopaedics, and acute inpatient settings, including working with […]
The perspective of the seriously injured rugby player: lessons for injury prevention
[Sheree Bekker] After reading ‘In a blink of an eye your life can change’: experiences of players sustaining a rugby-related acute spinal cord injury, I simply had to invite the first author, Marelise Badenhorst to write about her paper for this blog. Marelise Badenhorst is a Physiotherapist and PhD student as part of the Vrije University-NRF […]
Complexity, context, and intervention research: lessons from the Thailand cave rescue
“We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave.” ~ Thai Navy Seals via Facebook The rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach from the cave complex in Thailand captivated the world. Collectively we […]
If you catch World Cup fever, here’s how to prevent injuries | The Conversation
This article by Dr. Oluwatoyosi Owoeye, University of Calgary was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Dr. Owoeye is a clinician (physical therapist) scientist and currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of Calgary. His research focuses on the generation and implementation of knowledge that informs the […]
Grenfell: a year on, here’s what we know went wrong | The Conversation
[SB] As injury prevention researchers, policymakers, and practitioners our work is most often successful when it isn’t noticeable – when safety measures are working and people are safe. As a result, our work is often rendered socially invisible until safety measures fail. The Grenfell Tower fire (June 2017) has, unfortunately and tragically, brought our oft-hidden or […]
Injury Prevention: Achieving Population-Level Change
Injury Prevention: Achieving Population-Level Change | Supplement, Injury Prevention Editors: Natalie Wilkins, PhD; Roderick McClure MBBS, PhD; Karin Mack, PhD Why this supplement, now? Upon reviewing injury prevention’s recent history, the editors identified a developing struggle. Following injury prevention’s conceptualization as a public health problem in the 1960s, there was an escalation of […]
International Safety Media Awards – call for entries
Using media to promote safety and prevent injuries I have been intrigued by how best we can use The Media and (multi)media itself to promote safety and prevent injuries ever since attending the Mayo Clinic Social Media and Healthcare Summit in 2015. At the time, I wrote here on the Injury Prevention blog: “Sometimes we need to advocate […]
I sometimes wonder if there is such a thing as “injury prevention”
[Sheree Bekker] Injury Prevention has had an exciting start to 2018 with Professor Roderick McClure beginning his tenure as Editor-In-Chief. If you have not yet done so, be sure to read his first editorial: Injury Prevention: Where to from here? To kick off this blog for 2018, I asked Rod a few questions about his vision […]
Alison Baker-Lewton | People in Injury Prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Dr Alison Baker-Lewton to answer a few questions for our blog. Alison Baker-Lewton is a Senior Lecturer in Social Pedagogy in the College of Arts and Education at Victoria University in Melbourne. She received her PhD in Psychology […]