June 2020 in review: performance health
Elite sport exists on a knife-edge. Push too little and you won’t get better. Push too hard and you’ll get injured. Athletes are searching for that sweet spot of performance health where they can stay healthy and increase performance. Just like performance itself, performance health is multi-faceted. Craig Pickering put together a 9-part series in June diving into detail on different aspects like load, injury, nutrition, psychosocial factors and more.
Below you will find links to all of the articles in the series, as well as links to an addition 160 research review pieces on related topics such as injuries, monitoring, recovery, and nutrition. As always, become a HMMR Plus Members to get complete access to all of the resources below, including the premium content in the HMMR Classroom.
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New Performance Health Series
by Craig Pickering
- Part 1: The case for performance health
- Part 2: Understanding injury causation through injury models
- Part 3: Understanding and measuring load in sport
- Part 4: Improving athlete immune function and support
- Part 5: Optimal energy intake for performance health
- Part 6: Psychosocial factors impacting performance health
- Part 7: Optimizing athlete recovery and sleep
- Part 8: The importance of coach health and wellbeing
- Part 9: Putting performance health into perspective
Archived research summaries on performance health from Craig Pickering’s Sports Science Monthly
- Analyzing the connection between niggles and injuries (April 2020)
- Performance health in the run up to major events (April 2020)
- Bias in evidence-based injury prevention strategies (March 2020)
- A case study on sleep and injury (December 2019)
- Using disease treatment frameworks to address hamstring injuries (December 2019)
- Training sessions, return to play, and future injury (October 2019)
- Post-injury rehabilitation (October 2019)
- Sports science in track and field (October 2019)
- The relationship between a drive for thinness and injury risk (September 2019)
- Nordics do work (August 2019)
- Collagen and tendon pain (June 2019)
- Functional movement screening and injury (June 2019)
- Hamstring injury update (May 2019)
- ACTN3 and muscle injuries (April 2019)
- Strength endurance vs. strength training for hamstring health (February 2019)
- The athlete and lower back pain (February 2019)
- Sexual abuse as a risk factor for injury (February 2019)
- Injury prevention in team sports (November 2018)
- Adductor strengthening (October 2018)
- Age and hamstring injury (October 2018)
- When should you undertake injury prevention training? (September 2018)
- Roman chair vs. nordic hamstring sxercise (September 2018)
- Research on hamstring injury prevention and implications for practice (July 2018)
- Prior ankle injury as a risk factor for future hamstring injury (July 2018)
- Workload injury relationship & physical fitness (April 2018)
- Hamstring injury prevention in elite sport: where is the evidence pointing? (March 2018)
- How soon should injury rehabilitation start? (February 2018)
- Hamstring injury return to play: what do the coaches think? (January 2018)
- Stress fractures (January 2018)
- Predicting hamstring injuries (December 2017)
- Can repeated sprint tests measure of hamstring rehabilitation? (November 2017)
- Genes, concussion, and reaction time (September 2017)
- New insights into preventing injuries and illnesses in elite athletes (August 2017)
- Is there A genetic influence on sports injuries? (July 2017)
- Rhabdomyolysis (June 2017)
- Synthetic tendons (May 2017)
- Hamstring injury prevention (April 2017)
- The development of world-class athletes (April 2017)
- Best hamstring exercise (March 2017)
- Hamstring injuries (February 2017)
- Injury prediction (December 2016)
- How bad are injuries (October 2016)
- Hamstring re-injury (July 2016)
- The problem with injury screens (June 2016)
- Injury rehabilitation (April 2016)
