Preventing Exercise and Sport Related Injury: Can We Be Doing Better?
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2937
Special Issue Editor
Interests: strength and conditioning; musculoskeletal injury and exercise rehabilitation and return to play/activity; rugby injury and return to play experiences of professional athletes; professional competence of exercise professionals; concussion management; exercise prescription as a sustainable practice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The burden of exercise and sports injuries has been well documented, with physical, emotional, and social consequences occurring both proximal and distal to an injury event. Significant research effort and resources have been committed to the complex challenge of preventing injury, seemingly with limited success. Arguably, more attention could be paid to other elements of injury prevention such as attitudes to pain and injury, the ‘cultures' in which injuries occur, how injury recovery and return to activity are managed, and methods for reducing reinjury and recurrent injury. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) seeks to examine these aspects of the sequence of injury prevention. Papers addressing these considerations from a diverse range of methodological perspectives are invited for this Special Issue, especially those with high academic rigour that can offer interdisciplinary and practical foci. New research manuscripts, reviews, case reports, short communications, and commentaries are welcomed.
Dr. Phil Handcock
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reinjury
- sociology of pain
- sporting ethic
- return to activity
- prevention
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