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29/11/2023
ACLR Post-Op Diary – Week 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 29/11/2023In this article, I share my challenging road to recovery, from a severe motorcycle accident to the decision to undergo surgery. This post is a perfect read for those facing similar challenges or interested in sports medicine and rehab.
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30/03/2020
Hamstring Injury Prevention in Soccer
By Efthymios Kyprianou on 30/03/2020In this small presentation, Efthymios Kyprianou (S&C coach) presents his thoughts on hamstring injury prevention in soccer.
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13/08/2019
Return to Play in Elite Sport Following ACL Injury of the Knee
By Tim McGrath on 13/08/2019In this summary article by Tim McGrath find out the current best-practices in designing the return-to-sport program following ACL injury. Tim expands on each phase, benchmark tests as well on decision making regarding when the athlete is ready for the next phase or to play.
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17/12/2018
Predicting Non-contact Hamstring Injuries by Using Training Load Data and Machine Learning Models
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/12/2018Research has shown that there is an association between training load and likelihood of suffering non-contact injuries. But can we predict the injury? In this paper I have tried to predict non-contact hamstring injury by using two seasons day-to-day training load data.
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20/09/2018
Rehabilitation After ACL Injury: The Return to Sport Journey
By Bart Dingenen on 20/09/2018In this video, I present an overview of examples of exercises during the rehab process, beginning from the ACL injury, until full return to sport in our rehab center Motion to Balance, Genk, Belgium.
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23/08/2018
Data Preparation for Injury Prediction
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/08/2018I have recently wrote a technical note (actually a video) for Sport Performance and Science Reports journal regarding Data Preparation for Injury Prediction. Both data and R core are available on GitHub repository.
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16/02/2018
Optimal Physical Training of Muscle and Connective Tissue – Performance and Injury Prevention
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/02/2018Optimal physical training of muscle and connective tissue – performance and injury prevention by Prof. Keith Baar, USA
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24/10/2017
Managing Teams With Trello
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/10/2017I am pretty certain that the first one to suggest using Trello (somewhere in 2013) was Jose Fernandez from Houston Astros. Jose is pretty much technology clairvoyant. Another person that directed me to use Paul Dijkstra et al. five-color health and performance risk grading system 1 (see the below picture) was Brian Green from USA Rugby Sevens. We keep...
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11/10/2017
So you can predict the future… But can you change it?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/10/2017I also love to call this problem “Terminator Problem”, since it is more understandable to coaches, since most of them have seen Terminator movies. The issue is, once we are able to “predict” the future (for example estimating injury likelihood in the next 7 days), can we actually change it?
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28/09/2017
Latest on Load Monitoring [Video & FREE Templates]
By Sean Williams on 28/09/2017Sean Williams was kind enough to provide short review of the recent load monitoring workshop, held at the World Rugby Science Network Conference, as well as to provide full slides and Excel templates. This is tremendous resource for those interested in injury prediction analytics.