The Sports injury, health and wellbeing group focuses on the mechanisms and factors that influence sport injury, particularly musculoskeletal, lower limb, and head (e.g., concussion). We have a strong focus on injury prevention and management, and use of technology and predictive analyses to predict and explain risk of injury. Training practices and coaching influence on musculoskeletal injury and subsequent health and wellbeing are also studied.
Our group has expertise in biomechanics, musculoskeletal modelling and simulation, medical imaging, data analytics, sports nutrition, physiology, and training interventions.
This group covers:
- Understanding the mechanisms of lower limb musculoskeletal and head injuries
- Sensorimotor function and interventions in uninjured and injured people at risk of head injury
- Utilising biomechanical knowledge to aid clinical management of musculoskeletal injuries
- Understanding how training practices and coaching influence musculoskeletal injury, health and wellbeing
- Use of technology to measure athlete workload and injury risk
- Application of predictive analysis that would explain injury risk
- Understanding influences on the health and wellbeing of athletes including nutrition, sleep, low energy availability, REDs, gastrointestinal issues, and menstrual health
