Notes From: Supporting Champions 2018
This Notes From article is brought to you by Will Abbott (@WillAbbott__). Will is the Head Academy Strength and Conditioning Coach at Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. He is also undertaking his PhD in the use of GPS and accelerometery within elite football. You can find his Researchgate page…
Is There a Tug of War Between Injury Risk and Performance?
The majority of the recent literature in load monitoring focuses on the association between training load measures and injury risk. However, injury risk is not the only outcome measure we are interested in… performance matters too! However, the understanding of the training-performance relationship in team sports is currently not as…
Does Injury Availability Affect your Team’s Chance of Success?
The 2017/18 Premier League season has officially kicked off and so, therefore, have the injury statistic leagues. It has long been suggested that injury rates and player availability affect a team’s chance of success. This is not just the speculation of pundits or those down the pub; we have evidence…
Speed Development for Team Sports Masterclass Series: David Bishop
By West Bromwich Albion FC, in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University and supported by Catapult Sports. The second speaker of the evening was the internationally renowned researcher Prof. David Bishop (@BlueSpotScience). David is the inaugural research leader in sport science at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living…
Acute:Chronic Workloads and Rehabilitation: A Case Study
Last month I was invited to write a guest blog on Plinths and Platforms about load monitoring and rehabilitation. It included an overview of Banister’s Fitness-Fatigue concept, the acute:chronic workload ratio and how it can be incorporated into the Return to Play (RTP) decision. You can find that post HERE but…
Notes From: Monitoring #TrainingLoad16 at Aspire Academy
I wasn’t going to write a blog post on this week’s Training Load Monitoring conference held at Aspire because all the presentations will apparently be made available online, plus all the papers presented will be published in a special edition of IJSPP next year (which by the way is such a…
Is Return to Play from Hamstring Injuries in Applied Practice Evidence Based?
Whilst generally viewed as a somewhat avoidable soft tissue injury, hamstring strain injuries continue to plague the epidemiology in team sports. There are an endless amount of statistics in the literature regarding their prevalence but perhaps most worryingly of all are the recent findings from Professor Jan Ekstrand’s European football…
Premier League footballers plagued by rotting teeth, UCL finds
Nearly four out of 10 professional footballers have ongoing tooth decay, while eight out of 10 have gum disease according to a study by University College London By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor, The Telegraph, 11:30PM GMT 02 Nov 2015 Premier League managers hoping to turnaround their club’s fortunes might ordinarily look to…
Expert Speaker Series: Kristian Thorborg on Prevention of Groin Injuries in Sport
Dr Thorborg is an Associate Professor and Physiotherapist based at the Sports Orthopaedic Research Centre. He has special interests in knee, hip and groin injuries and presented on ‘The Prevention of Groin Injuries in Sport’. Understanding the Clinical Entity Groin pain presents itself in a number of different clinical entities…
Expert Speaker Series: Ben Serpell on ACL Injuries in High Performance Sport
Ben is currently the Athletic Performance Coach at the Brumbies, acting as the link between the medical and performance teams. He also has experience working in rehabilitation at Port Adelaide FC (AFL) and Gloucester Rugby. His current research focus is on improving the prevention of ACL injuries, seeing as though…