Sports Injury Prevention

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We investigate areas of the ACC 10-point plan for injury prevention known as SportSmart, to help reduce the risk of injury to youth athletes to elite athletes. Our main focus areas are injury epidemiology and sports injury biomechanics

Current Students & Respective Sports Injury Prevention Projects

Brenda Costa-Scorce: Reducing injurious events on mountains with prevention strategies for alpine skiing and snow boarding

Doug King: Injuries in rugby league: Incidence, dominance, influences and return to play decisions

Peter Maulder: The association of joint coupling variability and muscle stiffness with lower limb injury occurrence: Biomechanical musculoskeletal markers of lower limb function and health

Chris Whatman: The reliability and validity of physiotherapy screening of lower limb extremity functional performance

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Rodrigo Bini: The effects of cycle saddle position on knee joint load of injured and uninjured athletes

Simon Gianotti: A framework for implementation of sports injury prevention programmes

Staff in this Area:

Patria Hume

Chris Whatman

Kelly Sheerin

Last updated: 09 Nov 2009 12:30pm

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