Turning kick and boxing hook punch head impacts

As promised, here is another poster presentation from the ICSEMIS meeting last week in Glasgow.

Fife GP, Pieter W, O’SullivanDM. A Comparison of Head Impacts from the Taekwondo Turning Kick and BoxingHook Punch. Poster presentation at the 2012 International Convention on Science, Education & Medicine in Sport, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 19-24, 2012. 


This poster presents biomechanical measures of head injury severity from the turning kick (dollyeochagi / 돌려 차지) and the hook punch from boxing.


This poster was recognized through the young investigator award for best poster presentation. An award shared with five other early career researchers.


A LINK TO THE ABSTRACTS PRESENTED AT THIS CONVENTION ARE AVAILABLE HERE

ICSEMIS Presentations: Popularity and Universality of Olympic Sports

As we all have heard through the grapevine, a concentrated effort by the taekwondo community to boost popularity and appeal to the spectator over the years has rissen. Although a number of changes to Olympic style taekwondo have taken place, evidence based reports on popularity and appeal to spectators have not been reported enough. 



Here are two poster presentations by Sullivan and Bellon looking at objective measures for popularity and universality of all the Olympic sports. Both of these studies were presented at last week's International Convention on Science, Education & Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, Scotland.


Sullivan W & Bellon CR. The change in relative universality of the official. 2012International Convention on Science, Education & Medicine in Sport. ScottishExibition & Conference Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 19-24, 2012.


Sullivan W & Bellon CR. The change in relative popularity of the official. 2012 International Convention on Science, Education & Medicine in Sport. Scottish Exibition & Conference Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 19-24, 2012.

ALL POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE ICSEMIS SITE. WE WILL ONLY PROVIDE LINKS TO POSTERS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS.

Pieter Fife and O'Sullivan - Taekwondo Injury Review and Suggestions for Injury Prevention

A recent literature review on compeititon injuries in taekwondo, by Pieter et al was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. This review provides helpful informatio to understand the injury situation in taekwondo as well as suggestions for preventing injury and recommendations for starting an injury surveillance program in taekwondo. This is a timely publication for the up and coming London Olympics.

take a look here at the BJSM site: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/7/485.abstract

New study by Fife and Harter on medical care at taekwondo tournaments

Here is a new study hot off the press by Fife and Harter concerning the medical care at taekwondo tournaments! The article can be downloaded on the Archives of Budo website here. Feel free to comment on the study or better yet, submit your own review of the study to spark discussion.