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Research shows that Indigenous women are at greatest risk of injury within Canada. Income, education and housing inequities play a role. So does systemic racism and post-colonial trauma.
Did you know there has never been a safer time to be a child in Canada? Research shows that kids need freedom outdoors to explore exhilaration and fear, and discover their own limits.
Older people in nursing homes or aged care facilities are often locked up “for their own safety”, which new research says isn’t usually needed.
As the RBS Six Nations rugby tournament begins, the risk of injury is back in the limelight.
Healing is hungry work – so watch what you eat.
Do you land on your heel or forefoot when running? Listening to your technique might give you a clue and reduce your chances of injury.
Recovering from injury is about more than just becoming fitter and stronger - you need to go back to basics.
With massive public displays of fireworks set for New Year’s eve tonight, the accidental Senator David Leyonhjelm has recently called for the abolition of the ban on personal purchasing of fireworks throughout…
New way of engaging in a scrum will be used at the World Cup this weekend.
Many people stretch when they exercise or play sport. Others don’t stretch but feel they should. And some people don’t see any reason to stretch at all.
Australia is a sporting nation and the tragic death of batsman Phil Hughes is still very much in the hearts and minds of fans and players alike. Deaths in sport are rare but history does tell us that they…
You might have heard about Darek Fidyka, the paralysed man from Poland who recently walked again after an experimental cell transplant. It made headlines around the world and raised the hopes of many people…
Life-threatening brain injuries are thankfully rare in cricket and other sports, even those that involve collisions. But Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes’ tragic accident yesterday shows how little…
Horse racing claimed the lives of three jockeys recently – two in Australia and one in the United States – and some prominent industry professionals have openly claimed that deaths in racing are part of…
In elite racehorses, biology is pushed to the limit – about four tonnes is placed on the joint surfaces in a galloping horse’s lower limb with every stride, and these repeated loads have the potential…
We all know that professional football players feign injury. Is it getting worse? Probably. Do we know why? Not really, but history suggests some plausible answers. The first thing to say is that feigning…
The legendary American Football coach Vince Lombardi once said “Football is not a contact sport, it’s a collision sport – dancing is a contact sport”. This is equally applicable to the various codes of…
People who have a stressful experience gaining compensation after being hospitalised for an injury have a poorer long-term…
Deaths, arrests, missing passports, hospitalisations, rapes and sexual assaults - it’s holiday season and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has published its annual report on British behaviour…
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University
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Injury epidemiologist | Expert Witness, UNSW Sydney
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Deputy vice-chancellor (Research), Edith Cowan University
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Professor, University of British Columbia
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Professor, School of Allied Health Sciences, Griffith University
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Post-doctoral Researcher, University of South Australia
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PhD Candidate, Victoria University
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Professor of Risk Management and Injury Prevention, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Physiology, Bangor University
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Associate Professor in Exercise and Sport Physiology, Director of Research Operations at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Sport, Health and Physical Education, The University of Queensland
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Strategic Development Manager, Griffith Inclusive Futures, Griffith University
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Senior Researcher, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in Exercise and Sports Science, University of Newcastle
