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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This post expands on the points made in what I believe is a must read review for all Sport Scientists and in fact any practitioner conducting tests in sport and exercise. As scientists we try to control for confounding variables in our testing environments, such as hour of the day, nutrient and caffeine intake prior […]

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 and so four main categories […]

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 rates have not decreased despite […]