Sports Science
Sports Science at the Rio Olympics
Another inspiring Olympic Games is over… But if you are already suffering from the post-Olympics blues, here is a selection of resources and articles on a whole variety of topics surrounding the Games. No doubt there are many others so feel free to add any other links or suggestions in the comments below. Olympics Research Medals - Explore who […]
Tags: Doping, Nutrition, Olympics, Sports Science, Technology
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Interview: Head of Sports Science at Swansea City AFC - Jonny Northeast
With the new Premier League season soon to kick off we are delighted to bring you an interview with Head of Sports Science at Swansea City AFC, Jonny Northeast. According to public statistics on sites such as Premier Injuries and Physio Room (yes they are not perfect but they still have their uses), Swansea were […]
Tags: Football, Force Plate, GPS, Injury Prevention, Interview, Nordbord, Research, Sport Science, Sports Science, Training Load
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Welcome to the Sports Discovery Forum!
We are delighted to announce the official opening of the Sports Discovery forum! http://sportsdiscovery.net/forum/index.php This idea first came about following on from the responses to the survey we conducted on profiling careers in Sports Science (view a summary of the results here). It was clear that knowledge and communication are fundamental skills in our industry and a key […]
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What precisely is the role of the Sports Scientist?
I got prompted to write up a blog post based on an article I read earlier this month (11th May 2016) about Sports Scientists turning players soft. I’d be really keen to hear the views of our readers on this topic, so please read on and respond with your views through our comments section, facebook page or […]
Tags: Career, Interview, Sport Science, Sports Science
Posted in Sports Coaching, Sports Development, Sports Science | 1 Comment »
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 much more importantly I would […]
Tags: injury, Injury Prevention, Monitoring, Recovery, Rehabilitation, Reinjury, Research, Training Load
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Acute:Chronic Workloads and Rehabilitation
Recently I was asked by my colleague Sam Blanchard to write a guest post for his blog: Plinths and Platforms. Sam is also based in Western New York and is the Head of Rehabilitation for our affiliated American Hockey League (AHL) team, the Rochester Americans. He had been reading some of the recent literature from Tim […]
Tags: Acute:Chronic, Gabbett, injury, Monitoring, Rehabilitation, Reinjury, Research, Return to Play, Training Load
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Thoughts on 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 fantastic idea and one I […]
Tags: Conference, GPS, Monitoring, Recovery, Relationships, Research, Training Load, Wellness
Posted in Sports Data, Sports Injury, Sports Medicine, Sports News And Events, Sports Research, Sports Science, Sports Technology | 1 Comment »
Profiling Sports Science Careers - The Results
Last month we conducted a survey on Sports Discovery looking into the views on Sport Science careers; questions included what fundamental skills are needed to succeed in High Performance Sport and what methods are used to further develop your career. We had hundreds of respondents from all over the world; comprising Europe (69%), the Middle […]
Tags: Career, Communication, Job, Mentor, Networking, Nick Broad, Sports Science, Survey
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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 surveillance research group that suggests […]
Tags: Assessment, Eccentric, GPS, Hamstring Injury, Hamstring Strain, injury, Injury Prevention, Isokinetics, Load, MRI, Nordbord, Pain, Prevention, Rehabilitation, Research, Return to Play, RTP, Strength
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Profiling Sports Science Careers
In recent weeks there have been some very rare and exciting vacancies advertised in Sports Science, Strength and Conditioning and High Performance, most of which we tried to share on the Sports Discovery Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn feeds. This got us thinking about our own careers; what has helped and hindered getting where we are today and what could help the many […]
Tags: Career, Job, Mentor, Nick Broad, Sports Science, Survey
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