Interested in injury and jumping in professional ballet dancers but not interested in reading a ~200 page thesis on it?

Check out my latest pub in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) outlining my thesis:

tinyurl.com/What-goes-up

Thanks to my supervisors, collaborators, & dancers of The Royal Ballet

🔬 Dive into cutting-edge research on hamstring and calf strain mechanisms with our PhD Scholarship!

$53,000 tax free per year for 3 years

You need to be an Australian citizen.

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Anthony Blazevich Ryan Timmins David Opar

Reflections on Andrew Huberman's podcast:
‘PROTOCOLS TO STRENGTHEN & PAIN PROOF YOUR BACK’

'Do something'

Footballers Fabrice Muamba, Tom Lockyer and Charlie Wyke collapsed on the pitch after a cardiac arrest and came together on #BBCBreakfast to urge everyone to learn CPR with the help of the British Heart Foundation

bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cg…

Open question about the use of the SCAT6. Is there any direct guidance on use in people with English as a second language? Surely this adds an extra layer of cognitive processing?

Applications are open for Sport Therapists, Sport Rehabilitators and Physiotherapists looking to expand their skills in a highly practical, industry-directed, postgrad course.

View further detail and apply online: solent.ac.uk/courses/postgr…

Opportunity for a Strength and Conditioning Coach to come and work with us at The Royal Ballet 🩰 🏋️‍♂️

📍 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

💰 £46,500

🗓️ Closes 8 AM, 9th May 2024

A great role, and an amazing place to work: recruitment.roh.org.uk/vacancyView.ph…

Sports are great and fans are hilarious. Catching up on yesterday’s ⚾️ games and this:

“Why are they booing their own player?”

Commentary: “These aren’t boos you hear, they’re moos!”

Player’s name is Cowser.
Fans have cuddly toy cows. 🐮
It’s so simple and I love it. 👏🏻

🚨Light reading for your morning ☕️🚨

Do injury rates differ between starting players and replacements?

Kudos to simon roberts for pulling together data from 5 Unions for this collaboration.

Full text available (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

UKCCIIS - IOC Research Centre of Excellence CHi2PS

Another great study by Holly Silvers-Granelli, PhD, PT + superstar team showing the impressive impact of the 11+ on hamstring injury risk.

BUT - you actually have to do the program (the more the better) to get the benefit!

Are you a health or sports practitioner working with an ACLR population?

Can you spare 10 mins to help with the following survey “Force and Power Testing after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) - a survey of current practice”!

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stmarys/forc…

The aim…

PhD opp at Swansea University with an absolutely killer supervisor line up, fully-funded, and directly linked to Scarlets Rugby. (If I hadn’t just been through a PhD, I’d apply.)

In-game statistics associated with match outcome in professional rugby union

swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨
My 2nd PhD 👨‍🎓 article 📜 was just published by the Scand J Med Sci Sports.
Want to understand how the ground reaction forces are altered when sprinting in the curve in comparison to the straight?
Check this out 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/sms.14…

Carles making important points about grading of muscle injuries. They offer a useful starting point but the injuries are often complex and have involvement of more than one tissue type. They also tend not to capture specific locations which might be necessary.

Register for the annual World Rugby Player Welfare Symposium running 8-11 April.

All sessions streamed online, with registration via the following link ⬇️

worldrugby.box.com/s/99ax2wr360i0…

Nice to see our new paper now published in Experimental Physiology looking at the hypoalgesic and neurophysiological responses to BFR and high load resistance exercise, extending our BFR & pain modulation work.

Led by Ryan Norbury 💪🏽

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP…

Title: Research Fellow: Physical Movement

📍Place: ⁦Manchester Metropolitan Uni⁩ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

💰Salary: £46,974 - £54,395

📅Deadline: 29/5/24

ℹ For more details👇 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

Title: Research Fellow: Musculoskeletal Health with focus on chronic (lifestyle) disease or sport

📍Place: ⁦Manchester Metropolitan Uni⁩ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

💰Salary: £46,974 - £54,395

📅Deadline: 29/5/24

ℹ For more details👇 manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

A (purposefully vague) question for those in sport:
What do you want an incoming therapist (Physio, Sport Rehab/Ther) to know in advance of walking through the door? I’m talking skills, specific knowledge, abilities, etc.
What are your expectations beyond an undergrad degree?