Judo is a popular international combat sport with an estimated 20 million active participants worldwide. Although with great health benefits, participation entails a substantial risk of injury. Whereas injury prevention programmes in other sports have been proven effective in reducing injury rates, in judo, such programmes are only described and have never been formally evaluated.
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Citation impact and reach of the IOC sport and exercise medicine consensus statements
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has supported developing and publishing consensus statements on various sports medicine topics through its medical and scientific commission. The reach and impact of the IOC statements in peer-reviewed publications have not been evaluated... until now.
Read MoreA qualitative case study of the awareness, uptake and relevance of the IOC consensus statements
This study just appeared online in the renowned British Journal of Sports Medicine. In this study, Evert Verhagen and Caroline Bolling collaborated with our Australian, South African and Canadian IOC Research Centres colleagues. This study explored the policy and practice impact of the IOC Consensus Statements on athlete health and medical team management in two economically and contextually diverse countries.
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Injuries in Physical Education Teacher Students
We are fresh into 2023, but we already have this new manuscript to share with you. One of the last of the Ph.D. work by Maarten Barendrecht. In this study, we set out to understand the high injury risk in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students. Insights into specific injury locations per sex, setting, sports, and curriculum year are needed to develop preventive measures. This study set out to compare injury distributions by body locations in PETE students and how these distributions differ by sex, type, onset, curriculum year, settings, or sports.
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Do stakeholders in athletics perceive injury prevention as relevant?
Considering the magnitude and burden of athletic injuries (track and field) across all levels of participation, it appears logical that injury prevention measures should be implemented. However, it is unclear whether injury prevention is perceived as a necessity by stakeholders in athletics. In this study, we explored how athletic stakeholders perceived the relevance of injury prevention, determined their communication preferences, and described their expectations regarding injury prevention.
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