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 […]
Category: Sports injury
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 […]
Sports injury risk in youth soccer unlikely to be exacerbated over multi-day tournaments
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 […]
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 […]