Dr James C. Brown
@jamesbrown06
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Medical researcher (rugby injuries) by day; outdoor enthusiast the rest of the time
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined November 2011
Injuries are an inevitable part of sport. Fuller's kinetic model is a useful tool that can be applied to many sports and scenarios, to help to inform squad size discussions, training scheduling and general planning. https://t.co/krcI9mvlOc Code/templates:
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Shiny R code and example data for 'A kinetic model describing injury-burden in team sports' from Fuller (2017), Sports Medicine, 47, 2641-2651.
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We are hosting an open discussion on the on-going law trial @TheRFL & @leedsbeckett aimed to reduce concussion & head contact in rugby league. 2nd August 1830-2000 Online and in-person @Carnegie_Sport Hosted by @tanyaarnold The Home of Rugby League
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Why is the @RFU looking into reducing the #tackleheight in community rugby? 🏉 A 4-part infographic series trying to outline some of the science & background, with @willthompson100 and Katrina Webb 1) What do we know? #rugbymedicine
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PhD vacancy evaluating contact load in rugby Join @leedsbeckett @Carnegie_Sport working with @WorldRugby @Springboks @TheCurrieCup & international researchers @GregoryRoe @jamesbrown06 @Sharief_H @drkeithstokes @Starling_Linds @Scienceofsport @GTBiomech
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We’re looking for a Research Officer / Project Coordinator to join our team at @CARR_LBU @Carnegie_Sport @leedsbeckett on a 2-yr fixed term contract. Lots of exciting project within rugby and sports medicine to support. https://t.co/eYUgYWoJ0e
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Excited to be starting a new role as Reader (Assoc. Prof) @leedsbeckett @Carnegie_Sport in Sports Injury Epidemiology, continuing to work with @WorldRugby and @StellenboschUni 🌍 🙏 for making this dream a reality @23Benjones (and @Sharief_H for suggesting it in the 1st place)
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Head impacts in sport? ‘Without data, you’re another person with an opinion’ Instrumented mouthguard’s the solution? 1st, check the validity ( https://t.co/78xA6APGgh) Lab, field validity ✅ Player, practitioner feasibility ✅ Results in @BJSM_BMJ
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Rugby and HIA risk (thread): Ahead of a big rugby weekend, thought I'd offer a little insight into when the risk of head injuries is highest, and how World Rugby has tried to nudge behaviour towards safety (the Red and Yellow cards you see, that is). So here's a little tutorial!
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Thanks @PostdocSU and the force that is Dr Palesa Mothapo for getting this conversation going!
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Our @BJSM_BMJ publication investigating Activate effectiveness has now been made open access: 🔗 https://t.co/OBFUev1ZjL
#rugby
#injuryprevention
#implementation
#effectiveness
#phd
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Objective The efficacious Activate injury prevention exercise programme has been shown to prevent injuries in English schoolboy rugby union. There is now a need to assess the implementation and...
🚨 New PhD publication in @BJSM_BMJ 🚨 ‘Effectiveness of the @EnglandRugby Activate Injury Prevention Exercise Programme to prevent injury in schoolboy rugby union’ 🔗 https://t.co/Y2OkXjl6dX… Super proud of this one, huge thanks to all the team.
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Want to be a Postdoctoral Fellow? Come and work with us at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM)! #postdoctoralfellowship #sportandexercisemedicine
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Knowledge is Power 🧠 Join us for some great pearls of wisdom 🌟 📆11-13 March 2022
Maties Sport is hosting an online short course entitled “Practitioner Insights Into High Performance Training” over the weekend of 11-13 March 2022. The course is primarily aimed at early-career trainers or students within high performance settings. @gustavventer
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In this week's newsletter, I try to lay out a fictional example that will help make this critical concept a bit more intuitive. (And my example involves The Princess Bride, obv....) You can check it out below. (And if you like it, free to subscribe.) 4/4 https://t.co/LZamMeBIae
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Have you read the #EditorsChoice of this month?📄 The importance of correct technique when tackling and ball-carrying in elite rugby union🏉 What steps could be taken to help reduce injury risk? Thanks @steve_dh1, @MikeLambert01, @Sharief_H and team 👏 https://t.co/Bn8QlgdOuB
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Spoke to @BBCWorld earlier today about #VirusVariantsVaccine #VaccineApartheid Inequity & Injustice. Thanks to Philippa Thomas for inviting me on. This is NOT the answer, we need Global Solidarity and we need it NOW!
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#first50free Integrating machine learning and decision support in tactical decision-making in rugby union https://t.co/QktRhECHDU
@indurbach @rugbystatsguy 🏉🔬
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Rugby union, like many sports, is based around sequences of play, yet this sequential nature is often overlooked, for example in analyses that aggregate performance measures over a fixed time inter...
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🆕The 2019-20 England Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Report Includes data on the influence of the COVID-induced suspension on the season as well as the fixture congestion. https://t.co/aRS4eDKeDZ
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A great opportunity to join the @StellenboschUni & @MatiesSport team 🙌🏽 Post-doc Research Fellow under the theme "Data Science in Sport". https://t.co/tJFI4ihZuG
@JobsinSportSci @ScienceforSport @jumpinsport @sandcvacancies @Physical_Prep @StrCoachNetwork @jamesbrown06
Maties Sport’s Centre for Sport Leadership, in conjunction with Stellenbosch University’s School for Data Science & Computational Thinking, is currently looking for candidates to take up a postdoctoral research fellowship under the theme of “Data Science in Sport”.
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📢3rd PhD study published in the special edition 'Injury Prevention in Sport' @IJERPH_MDPI "Utilising a Behaviour Change Model to Improve Implementation of the @EnglandRugby Activate Injury Prevention Exercise Programme in Schoolboy Rugby" Open Access👉 https://t.co/nTcfVE1Dcx
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