This is the latest study by Jack Hickey and colleagues published a few weeks ago. Jack is part of the Hamstring Injury Group in Australia headed by Dr Anthony Shield and David Opar. Their group have grown and they collectively have produced a major bulk of the latest hamstring injury research in recent years. Open…
Following from last week’s excellent review article by Matthew Bourne and colleagues, this week we have another review paper by Dr Anthony Shield and Matthew Bourne on the abovementioned topic. More hamstring gold from the hamstring research group! Open access: NO (but a non-downloadable view-only version is available) First online: 15 November 2017 The main…
This is an article on the ScienceDaily website back in July. It covers a study done at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that looked at how the nervous system adapts differently when a person lifts heavy weights (80% of max) compared to lifting lighter loads (30% of max). Summary: “Physical strength might stem as much from…
This is an excellent BJSM podcast 2 years ago and has more than 11k listens. In this podcast Tim Gabbett talks about how the medical team can better work together with the S&C team. “High performance demands heavy workloads but loading increases the risk of ‘overuse’ injury. How can clinicians and strength & conditioning (S&C)…
A review article titled above. This article is not open access. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-016-0486-0
An excellent guest blog by David Poulter on Adam Meakin’s The Sports Physio blog. I totally agree that having personal experience in elite level sports definitely makes a difference in one’s approach to managing elite athletes. Without it I think most physios would not be able to fully understand how the athletes feel when they…
Systematic review and meta-analysis with the above title. This article is not open access. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-015-0426-4
