A nice piece from School Health Pulse posted on Linkedin about the FAIR Consensus Statement and SIPRC's involvement. This article features SIPRC PhD student Emily Heming. You can read the article here: https://t.co/dR7cPDUjbo
@UCalgary@uofcknes
So excited to see the FAIR consensus paper published. This work reflects an incredible global effort to support safer sport for female, women, and girl athletes. Proud to be part of this massive team effort!
New @BJSM_BMJ editorial! Raising girls in sport: unique considerations for injury prevention. It’s time to move beyond one-size-fits-all and design strategies that truly work for her.
🔗https://t.co/HFV4YKOFC3
#GirlsInSport#InjuryPrevention
New systematic review for the FAIR consensus in @BJSM_BMJ on female upper extremity injury prevention!
- Targeted exercise programs led to a 51% reduction in shoulder injuries!
- Highlights the urgent need for more focus on female-specific research!
https://t.co/qfyV0Qn1MR
Happy to announce that registration is open for the "Athlete Health, Safety, and Injury Prevention: A focus on girls" symposium happening on Sept 22, 2025. SIPRC is hosting this great free event at UCalgary and all are welcome to attend! https://t.co/1antr18PD9
🚨New paper: Whistleblower🚨
Time to start supporting officials with ⬆️ engagement and resources to maximise uptake and effectiveness of injury prevention policies!
A call to action for all sports to facilitate penalisation of illegal actions in sport
https://t.co/HpJaxyjAWw
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Stay tuned to @BJSM_BMJ for the ioc consensus on preventing injuries in female/women/girl athletes. Great meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭 as part of the journey. Still work to be done! #AthleteHealth 🏋️♀️🏌️♀️⛹️♀️🚣♀️🏊♀️🚴♀️🏄🏻♀️🚵♀️🧗♀️
🚨New paper🚨
🏒Female Youth Ice Hockey and Ringette
Another study showing that, despite rules, high intensity body checking and head contacts still happen.
🔑message again:
Enforcement critical to prevention implementation.
Congratulations @Emily_Heming99 on leading!
Had a fantastic time this past week @IOCprevConf! Got to see some awesome work being done around the world on injury and illness prevention in athletes. Even got to present some of my own work and see all the awesome work done by @SIPRC_ students!
#Monacoconference2024
SIPRC's own Ash Kolstad @ash_kolstad was up early this morning on GlobalTV talking about Alberta Concussion Awareness Day and the importance of ongoing research into concussion prevention. Well done Ash, way to represent! 👏 @SHRedConcussio1@uofcknes https://t.co/Z1o9Ks2l01
Our third oral abstract presentation session focused on prevention and detection in sport-related concussion. The session was moderated by @pheliason with presentations by David Luke (@UBC), @Emily_Heming99 and @KMitchell_ATPT