Well Rounded Person - Injury and sport

Upcoming Sports Events

SafeClub was officially launched on 25th June 2009 with the support of the NSW Department of Sport and Recreation. Over 40 people representing sport from across NSW attended the luncheon launch to hear how SafeClub makes safety easy for community sport. A presentation from SafeClub’s Jane Nethery and Kristy Abbott included an overview of the program and the research evidence while Michelle Hanley from Football NSW covered the benefits of SafeClub from a sport perspective. Sports from across NSW are now signing up to partner with SafeClub to make their sport safer.

If you missed the launch and would like information on SafeClub click here.

Sunshine Coast Launches Girls Rugby League Competition

On Sunday, 10 May, ARL Development and the Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League will launch their inaugural U15's and U17s Girls Competition at the Beerwah Bulldogs JRL (Roberst Road, Beerwah) between 10am and midday. The Launch will involve Under 15 teams from Caboolture, Bribie Island, Coolum and Beerwah whilst the Under 17s will involve Nambour, Bribie Island and Beerwah.

Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience

Inspiring Youth Cricketer Jack Manning-Bancroft has helped University of Sydney Students get underway a mentoring program linking Indigenous year 9 and 10 school students from with mentors from across all university faculties. The underlying philosophy of AIME is to empower young indigenous people through positive role modelling and relationships, building self esteem and resilience, encouraging schoolattendance and progression to tertiary education.

Refugee Youth Soccer Development Program

This innovative program seeks to assist young refugees in their immigration and integration to Australia through sport. Check out their website for more information.

Upcoming Research

The third round of focus groups and fieldwork has been completed and a General Summary is being collated. Thanks to The Southport School, AB Paterson College, Rockhampton Girls Grammar School, Sapphire Coast Anglican College, Wagga Wagga Christian College, Al-Faisal College Auburn, Football United and the Burwood and Mosman Cubs for their participation. Preparation for further focus groups with parents, coaches and PDHPE teachers is underway.

Injury and sport

Sport, spinal cord injury, embodied masculinities, and the dilemmas of narrative identity

This article focuses on the narrative identity dilemmas of four men who have experienced spinal cord injury (SCI) through playing rugby football union and now define themselves as disabled. The biographical data illustrate how body-self relationships moved from an absent presence in the lives of these men to something that was other, problematic, and alien. This transformation instigated anxieties concerning the combined loss of specific masculine and athletic identities that were formerly at the apex of the participants’ identity hierarchy. In such circumstances, the desire for a restored self is highlighted, as are the limited narrative resources that frame this coping strategy. Suggestions for how this situation might be changed are then offered.

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References: Skateboarding & Injury

Everett, W.W. (2002) Skatepark injuries and the influence of skatepark design: A one year consecutive case series. Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 23 no. 3, pp. 269-274

Forsman, L. & Eriksson, A (2001). Skatebaording injuries of today. British Journal of Sports Medicine, vol 35, no 5, pp. 325-328.

Fountain, J.L., & Meyers, M.C. (1996) Skateboarding injuries. Sports Medicine, vol 22, no 3, pp 360-366.

Osberg, J., Schneps, S.E>, Di Scala, C., & Li, G. (1998) Skateboarding: more dangerous than rollerskating or inline skating, Archives of pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, vol 1, pp 985-999.

Resky, J., Jaffe, D., & Chrisoffel, K. (1991) Skateboarding injuries in children: A second wave. American Journal of Diseases of Children vol 1, p 188-192

Mismatching in youth sports

A case study involving sports activities in schools is presented. The plaintiff, a fourth grade student, alleged that the school was guilty of ordinary negligence when its basketball team coach allowed the him to play with a kid twice his size, causing him injuries. The defense claimed that the injury fell under the category of risks assumed by a player who chooses to participate.
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Helping girls move 'like boys' cuts knee injuries. (Research Updates).(anterior cruciate ligament)

NEW YORK, February 21, 2002 The best way to prevent serious knee injuries in female athletes may be to teach them to "run, jump and pivot like boys," a new study suggests. Compared to males playing the same sport and position, girls and women playing soccer, basketball and volleyball are two to eight times more likely to injure their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), the major stabilizer of the knee.

Researchers in Georgia and California tested a special training program in female soccer players and found it cut their rate of ACL tears by 88 percent. They compared knee injuries among 1,041 female soccer players enrolled in the Prevent injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program to injuries in 1,902 players who did not enroll in the course. At the end of the season, the PEP-trained players had only two ACL tears, compared with 32 in the non-trained group.

The PEP program, a comprehensive training system, consists of a special 20-minute warm-up that includes special avoidance techniques, stretching, strengthening, jumping and sports-specific agilities.

According to one researcher, "Girls run and pivot in a stiff-legged, upright posture. Boys, on the other hand, have knees bent and play low to the ground." Biomechanics, say the researchers, "can and should be manipulated" to prevent injury.

[C] 2002 Reuters Limited

Increasing mouthguards usage among

...junior Rugby and Basketball players.

Objectlve: To evaluate a Western Australian mouthguard promotion campaign, launched at the start of the 1997/98 junior rugby union and junior basketball seasons, aimed at increasing mouthguard usage at competition and training.
Method: A quasi-experimental field design was used to assess the impact of the mouthguard campaign on behavioural change. Observational data were collected pre- and post-campaign on mouthguard usage by players present at a rugby and basketball competition event and at a raining session. Junior Australian Rules Footballplayers were used as a control group.
Results: Pre-post observational surveys showed a significantly greater increase in mouthguard usage in competition games among rugby union (77% to 84%) and basketball players (23% to 43%) compared with the control group (72% to 73%). All codes showed a post-campaign increase in mouthguard usage at training. but the intervention codes' increases were greater than the control's increase (rugby union: 29% to 4()OA,; basketball: 11 % to 36%; football: 34% to 40%).
Conclusions: The campaign had a significant and substantial effect on behaviour and provides evidence of the benefits of teveraging a sponsorship to modify the behaviour of the target group.
Implications: This campaign provides a model for promoting mouthguard usage in other sports among junior players.

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