ESMRN's latest news and upcoming events. News Study: Female downhill mountain bikers at 'significantly' higher risk of injury A groundbreaking new study has found that female competitors in downhill mountain biking are much more at risk of injury than their male counterparts.Read the article in The Independent Experts advise on sports concussion protocols Experts at Edinburgh have helped to revise national guidelines on how best to respond to cases of sports-related concussion.Read the full story UKCCIIS IOC Research Centre inaugural international conference was a huge success The UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS) is an IOC Research Centre and part of the global research network on injury and illness prevention in sport and athlete health protection.On 8th and 9th July 2024, in the run-up to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, UKCCIIS hosted their inaugural international sports injury prevention conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The event brought together 200 delegates including sports injury and illness prevention researchers, sport scientists, sport and exercise medicine doctors, orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists and wider health professionals to network and engage with speakers and renowned experts in sports injury and illness prevention research. The event provided delegates with the most up-to-date research, providing new insights into sports injury and illness prevention research from world-leading experts across numerous summer and winter Olympic sports.Speakers included those working with: International Olympic Committee (IOC), World Rugby, United States Olympic and Paraplympic Committee (USOPC), Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English Rugby Unions, UEFA, Scottish Football Association (SFA), Scottish Institute of Sport (SIS), International Ski Federation (FIS), International Cycling Union (UCI), British Olympic Association (BOA), Arthritis Research Canada. Look out for the next conference in 2026.Visit the conference site Dr Isla Shill joins from University of Calgary on a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship Dr Isla Shill is the newest member of ESMRN. Isla completed her PhD in Kinesiology with a specialisation in Sports Medicine at the Sports Injury Prevention Research Centre at the University of Calgary May 2024 - supervised by Professor Carolyn Emery and Professor Brent Hagel.She has recently joined as a post-doctoral researcher in injury prevention funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship supervised by Dr Debbie Palmer and Professor Dave Collins. She has experience in sport injury epidemiology/prevention and biostatistics. Specifically, her PhD evaluated injury and concussion prevention strategies within girls’ rugby using injury surveillance and video analysis methods. Isla will be working on a Sports Injury Prevention in Scottish Schools study over the next three years. World Rugby Grant awarded to ESMRN World Rugby focuses research investment on the women’s game.Read the article Official IOC Plaque Handover UKCCIIS celebrated the official IOC Plaque handover, presented by Lars Engebretsen.View full post Health experts target ambitious Olympic goals Sports scientists and medical researchers from Edinburgh are to jointly lead an initiative focused on athlete health and injury prevention at elite level.Read the article Edinburgh and Bath to lead International Olympic Committee Research Centre The new IOC Research Centre focusing on athlete health and injury prevention will draw on long-standing sports science research expertise at both institutions.Read the article Tackling women's Rugby injury rates A new research study funded by World Rugby aims to improve injury and recovery rates in women's rugby.Read the article This article was published on 2024-10-07
