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 […]
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CDC Public Health Grand Rounds: Injury Prevention
An important event to be viewed on YouTube. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Too much coverage? Only when it is inaccurate!
Oscar Wilde is reputed to have said, “”The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Others have paraphrased this as there is no such thing as bad publicity. This came to mind when I began scanning the web and the press in preparation for this column and discovered the astonishing […]
No BlackBerry? Fewer road injuries
A report from Abu Dhabi describes a large reduction in traffic injuries during a week when BlackBerry services were disrupted. The fall was 20% from the average for the same days in Dubai and 40% in Abu Dhabi. Not surprisingly, the fall was greatest among young men, the largest users of the device. The results […]
Gun control: From two sides of the border
I recently commented on Canada’s Tory government’s decision to scrap the long gun registry and destroy all the data that had been collected. Although undoubtedly many farmers, hunters, and some less reputable gun owners welcome this decision, most in public health as well as many police forces, deplore it. But it seems small potatoes compared […]