Sports Injury and Rehabilitation
Sports injury and rehabilitation staff have a range of research interests covering exercise, sports concussion and the prevention and rehabilitation of lower limb injuries. Members of staff are actively engaged in interdisciplinary projects and have established international links with industry and Universities, which involves working closely with National governing bodies, sports organisations, medical practitioners and coaches. Current active projects include determining the most effective motor learning strategy to retrain movement, injury prediction from a statistical and stress-mechanism perspective and identifying injury risk factors in elite soccer.
Main Areas of Reaserch Include:
Retraining movement patterns
Running-related overuse injuries
Motor learning strategies for rehabilitation
Sports concussion
Statistical analysis of injury patterns
Stress mechanisms for injury predictions
Psychology of sports injuries
Stress and performance
Sports injury surveillance and prevention
Hamstring injury prevention in running sports
Injury prevention and management in military settings
Injury risk in youth soccer
ACL injury and return to sport
Anticatipatory and compensatory postural adjustment
Research Staff
Dr Kelly Ashford
Dr Lynne Evans
Dr Marianne Gittoes
Dr Isable Moore
Matthew Attwood
Jason Pedley
Adeline Philips