Possible breakthrough on falls in the elderly

Most falls among elderly due to incorrect weight-shifting A study in British Columbia involved “strategically placed video cameras in long-term care facilities” that recorded falls among the elderly residents. Based on an analysis of recordings of 227 falls involving 130 individuals the researchers found that 70 per cent occurred “during a failed attempt at performing […]

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PhD Scholarship Opportunity

The University of Ballarat (Australia) has a new Centre for Healthy and Safe Sport (CHASS), under the direction of  Professor Caroline Finch. CHASS is offering two PhD scholarship opportunities. Applications from both Australian and International candidates are invited: Statistical coding, classification and analysis Advanced statistical modelling of longitudinal injury data e.g. time series modelling and prediction, survival analysis […]

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People in the news: Sue Baker

 In the October 16 issue of the New York Times Magazine, Robert Stock has written a marvelous article about Sue Baker and her work. If this captivating photo is not enough to encourage you to seek it out, nothing will. The piece is long, beautifully written, and so detailed it could serve as a history […]

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Research tools

MakeUseOf     http://www.makeuseof.com/ is, if you will pardon what may or may not be a pun, a remarkably useful website. I receive an email newsletter regularly and more often than not it includes some extremely helpful advice. This week it dealt with ‘tools’ (electronic) that might prove helpful when doing research. These range from free word […]

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Are we being too safe?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323622904578129063506832312.html?mod=googlenews_wsj. This a link to a fairly recent Wall Street Journal article, Playing It Too Safe, which essentially argues that children should take more risks. It is a bit more nuanced than many of the ‘school of hard knocks’ rhetoric and thus worth reading. I don’t agree with the view but you might. If you […]

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