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 […]
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The road to academic success is paved with stylish academic writing | Impact of Social Sciences
The road to academic success is paved with stylish academic writing | Impact of Social Sciences. This is sort of a post script to my last blog where I invited you to try this author’s neat little tool for analysing writing. Readers may be interested in a piece she wrote for the LSE Journal which […]
How things used to be – my first injury
When I was 7 years old I fell off a slide on which has been placed a see-saw to prevent 7-year-olds from using the slide. I broke my wrist. Here was the bill my family received. (Note the spelling error!) […]
A new Lynn Truss book on punctuation “Twenty-odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts!
For those who share my passion for good punctuation, and who enjoyed Lynn Truss’s witty, clever, useful book “Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation”, I have just discovered that she has another such book out. The blurb below is from Amazon. [No, I do not get a cut of the profits.] […]
Academic journals: an open and shut case | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
This link was sent to me by Tim Albert who is a freelance scientific writer trainer. It is a powerful indictment of the traditional publishing model and makes a strong case for open access journals. I have written about this before. In essence, although I approve of the moral argument, the problems with OA need […]
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 […]
The scope, focus and quality of international sports injury prevention research
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 […]
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 […]
Haiku signs in New York
In New York 12 street signs with a haiku underneath (designed by John Morse), have begun to appear. The plan is to install about 200 such signs, some in Spanish, at “crash-prone”crosswalks. They are believed to be ‘an eye-catching way to encourage safety.’ An example is a fallen bike with the caption: A sudden car […]