Injury Prevention

This talk discusses the understanding and implications of complexity theory for sports injury research, and will propose alternative approaches that acknowledge complexity and as such may be more fit for purpose.

This research describes how a multidisciplinary team worked effectively to reduce injury burden in the conext of professional rugby union

This article describes a simple process that practitioners working in team sports can use to analyse and address injury outcomes

In this blog, I discuss some of the practicalities of training prescription for female athletes.

Should we be spending valuable time and effort screening our athletes? What value do these tests have?

Injury risk in South African schools first team rugby players is similar to professional rugby

Functional movement screen component test scores are associated with contact injury outcomes in professional rugby union

I was asked this question recently by one of the South African Super Rugby franchises, who were concerned about how to manage their players into the end stages of the season. Below are my thoughts on the theoretical threshold for injury

This talk explores a robust process for prioritising training goals for athletes participating at a semi-professional, university level. The process described advocates for first developing movement proficiency, before developing, strength, power and energy system capacities. The second half of this talk explores the use of various technologies to inform the training process.