Sports injury – Injury Prevention: Editor's Blog

When you run, does it matter what you wear on your feet?

Posted on March 21, 2014 by BMJ

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

Posted on March 20, 2014 by BMJ

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

Posted on March 19, 2014 by BMJ

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 […]

Physical activity promotion has nothing to gain from injury prevention! Fact or Fiction?

Posted on March 14, 2014 by BMJ

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

Posted on March 11, 2014 by BMJ

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?

Posted on March 7, 2014 by BMJ

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 […]

Listen and learn from others to prevent injury

Posted on October 4, 2012 by BMJ

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

Posted on October 3, 2012 by BMJ

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?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by BMJ

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

Posted on August 2, 2012 by BMJ

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 […]