Sports Injury Prevention

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Join us as we unpack the Healthy Injury-Free Adolescent Athletes (HIFAA) study — a landmark project following teenage athletes to uncover what really drives sports injury risk. From training load to mental health, we explore how these factors interact, and what coaches, parents, and health professionals can do to keep young players performing and injury-free. Link to the study: Prospective cohort...

Resources for Physiotherapy Students is your go-to podcast for mastering the anatomy, assessment, and clinical reasoning skills you’ll need on placement and in practice. EPISODE INFORMATION: Test your knowledge of ankle anatomy in this interactive quiz-style episode with Dr Andrew Ross from Victoria University. We’ll cover the key bones, ligaments, and muscles of the ankle joint, as well as common...

Welcome to our 10-minute knee anatomy quiz podcast, designed specifically for student physiotherapists and early career physios. This episode is packed with essential knowledge that your clinical educators will expect you to have on placement. Anatomical knowledge is the cornerstone of physiotherapy practice and mastering it early will set you up for success in understanding pathology, clinical re...

On average, professional football teams experience significant time loss due to hamstring injuries. The average days lost for each hamstring injury typically results in about 17 to 25 days of lost time. A professional football team can expect around five hamstring injuries per season, leading to more than 80 days of lost football activities (training or matches) and approximately 14 missed matches...

The Sports Injury Prevention podcast discusses the Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction. Access to paper can be found here: Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction | British Journal of Sports Medicine Infographic: Infographic. Aspetar clinical practice guideline on rehabilitation after ACL recon...

In this episode we unpack a recent publication, The FIFA 11+: Why is adherence so challenging? Insights from a cross-sectional study of stakeholders in Australian amateur football (soccer). The paper can be found here: The FIFA 11 + : Why is adherence so challenging? Insights from a cross-sectional study of stakeholders in Australian amateur football (soccer) - Andrew G. Ross, Marnee J. McKay, Eva...

This podcast episode delves into the critical area of nationwide sports injury prevention strategies, drawing from a recent scoping review. The discussion highlights the potential for such strategies to improve public health and reduce medical costs. While many countries have implemented these strategies with positive results, the podcast will explore the types of approaches that have been taken,...

This PhD thesis examines the population burden of amateur football injuries in Australia. It uses a three-year retrospective analysis of sports injury insurance data to analyse injury incidence, costs (both direct and indirect), and characteristics, stratified by age and sex. The research also investigates the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on injury rates and explores injury prevention behaviour...