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 […]
Category: Sports injury
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 […]
Protecting vision: why is this controversial?
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 […]
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) […]