It’s easy to focus on what we’ve lost and what we can’t do when injured. Sometimes people just need some help remembering what we can’t do. Injuries are a human experience, after all.

How well aligned are players’, parents’ and coaches’ perspectives of female ⚽️ talent development environments?

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What makes ice hockey fun? That’s the question we tried to answer through this paper, my first with the Swedish Ice Hockey Association.

Really enjoyed being part of this team!

Link 👇🏼

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How comprehensive is the comprehensive load monitoring?

When injury hits identity…

So the question remains: Why, exactly?

When we look at injury risk, are we looking at all the risks? And are we looking at how to reduce them?

Started producing little mini-series carousels on different topics that I’m interested in. This is mainly because I’m just geeky interested about stuff but also to challenge some myths I see in everyday work (some of which I’m very surprised still exist!)

New publication!

Expanding our understanding of talent development environments in English female football: player, parent and coach perspectives.

Available open access at the link below.

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#football #talentdevelopment

Our next applied article is available in Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal
Toward a Holistic Management of Injured Soccer Players: A Psychosocial Return-to-Performance Pathway (page 282 onwards)

journal.aspetar.com/en/archive/v...

We hope you enjoy the read!
#injury #returntoperformance #sport

Interested in creating effective holistic talent development environments in ⚽️?
Delighted to share our recent CASES Expert Statement containing several applied recommendations. We hope you enjoy the read!
Would be nice to discuss ideas with interested folks 🙂
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Part II: Why Do Children and Young People Drop Out of Sport? A Dynamic Tricky Mix of Three Rocks, Some Pebbles, and Lots of Sand

www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...

A little late to the party in sharing our new work, but here goes!

Part I: Why Do Children and Young People Drop Out of Sport? Development and Initial Validation of the Youth Sport Dropout Questionnaire

www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...

Title: Associate Senior Lecturer in sports science, biomechanics and parasport

📍Place: @GIH 🇸🇪

💰Salary: TBC

📅Deadline: 12/5/25

ℹ For more details👇 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I006/125...

Thanks, Chelsey! It was a pleasure spending time with you and the team. I enjoyed the discussions and hope that the takeaways are things you can use moving forward! 🤝

Psychological, social and contextual factors across recovery stages following a sport-related knee injury: a scoping review Objective To explore the role of psychological, social and contextual factors across the recovery stages (ie, acute, rehabilitation or return to sport (RTS)) following a traumatic time-loss sport-rela...

Along with that, this 2020 review paper by @lktphysio.bsky.social @yegphysio.bsky.social and colleagues falls into that same category. Comprehensive, robust and informative. Pretty much gets referenced in every introductory lecture, external chat and general chat!

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Social support and therapeutic relationships intertwine to influence exercise behavior in people with sport-related knee injuries Explore how social support influences exercise therapy participation and adherence before and after enrolling in an education and exercise therapy intervention (Stop OsteoARthritis, SOAR).Study des...

A paper that, in my opinion, falls in the ‘must read’ category 👌🏼
Social support and therapeutic relationships intertwine to influence exercise behavior in people with sport-related knee injuries: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice: Vol 41, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

BASES #BASESBIG2025 abstract submission info 👇🏻

#biomechanics #Sport #performance #exercise #health #Research

"...an injured player with higher perceived social support will experience less re-injury anxiety during #rehabilitation, and consequently they will be more confident in performing well and remaining injury-free upon return to sport."

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Psychological interventions used to reduce sports injuries: a systematic review of real-world effectiveness Objective To systematically review studies examining the role of psychological interventions in injury prevention. The primary research question was: What is the real-world effectiveness of psychologi...

Psychological interventions can ⬇️ the risk of injury, reduce injury time loss, and reduce re-injury risk.

Good seeing this injury prevention topic discussed during and following the @UEFA Medical Symposium

Papers 👇🏼

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“…everyone has a right to health.”

“…to care is not an act of weakness, but of strength.”

Bravo, @thelancet.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼

These #infographics from the 9th UEFA Medical Symposium in Lugano… 👌🏼 Looks like Dale did a great job exploring psych risk and preventative factors for sport #injury! 👏🏼

See our papers referenced on the graphic:

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link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Educate, involve and collaborate: three strategies for clinicians to empower athletes during return to sport Empowering injured athletes is a critical concept within sport and exercise medicine to optimise patient experiences and return-to-sport (RTS) outcomes.1–3 Unfortunately, scant attention has been give...

As we help progress through return to sport, empowering athletes becomes even more important.

Educate, involve and collaborate: three strategies for clinicians to empower athletes during return to sport

Dale, @running-physio.bsky.social and Les

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‘I’m asking you to believe—not in my ability to create change, but in yours’: four strategies to enhance patients’ rehabilitation adherence ‘I’m asking you to believe—not in my ability to create change, but in yours.’ Former US President Barack Obama provides a poignant message for sport and exercise medicine clinicians that relates to re...

Recently, I’ve seen ⬇️ injury prevention and rehab adherence reduced to athletes having a bad attitude. It’s frustrating. There are many reasons why adherence is low, but there are also lots of things we can do to help.
This #editorial covers some ideas:
bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/9...
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“I can’t return to play” – When fear of reinjury dominates after ACL reconstruction: Adam Gledhill Adam Gledhill (http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/adam-gledhill/) is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Leeds Beckett University. He has a terrific amount of experience in sport psych

Reflecting a lot on my career lately. Almost 10 years since I/we first spoke - publicly at least - about the importance of post-RTPerf monitoring post- #ACL injury. Based on a case work with elite woman ⚽️ player. My first #podcast

on.soundcloud.com/LqpE5yArXfag...

Abstract submission information👇

🔗tinyurl.com/BIGAbstracts25 (a template is available)

Deadline: 19/03/25

For any questions, DM us or📨bases.biomech@gmail.com

#Exercise #FallPrevention #PhysicalActivity #PhysEd #Movement #SportsAnalytics #

Maximise your patients rehab adherence, with Adam Gledhill, Dale Forsdyke and Tom Goom. Ep #467 Joining us on this podcast to discuss this crucial topic are Dr Adam Gledhill, Dr Dale Forsdyke and Tom Goom. Adam is Course Director for Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Leeds Beckett Universi

Throwback to recording one of my favourite #podcasts a couple of years back with Dale, @running-physio.bsky.social and Stefan 👌🏼

Drinking ☕️ and chatting about how to maximise your patients #rehab adherence
Ep #467 by BMJ talk medicine on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/j2CtVRKTJTZY...

Do not neglect injury severity and burden when assessing the effect of sports injury prevention interventions: time to paint the whole picture The outcomes typically reported from injury prevention trials are incidence rates. In this editorial, we show that this approach only paints part of a bigger picture and could even lead to misinterpre...

Do not neglect injury severity and burden when assessing the effect of sports injury prevention interventions: time to paint the whole picture. Insightful @BJSM_BMJ #Editorial that considers challenges and solutions

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Enhancing our understanding of sport practitioner perspectives on developing effective sporting environments Research has increasingly focused on the environmental features within talent and performance development settings. However, practitioner perspectives on their role in optimizing these environments...

Understanding practitioner perspectives is 🔑 to developing #sport environments

✅ Multi-stakeholder planning

✅ ‘Doing’ aligns to +ve environment principles

⚠️Out of planning, doing and reviewing, reviewing is given least attention
#openaccess
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Final/ Do you advertise for/recruit interns in sport and exercise science?
What practices do you adopt? How do you ensure equity of opportunity?
Any best practice to share?