Kellie & Lari are actively involved in rowing specific injury and illness research, striving to improve the understanding of sports medicine professionals and the rowing community across the world on how to reduce the impact of injury and illness on rowing training and performance.
Recent relevant publications include:
How do we manage rowing-related low back pain? Podcast on BMJ talk medicine.
2021 consensus statement for prevention and managing low back pain in elite and subelite adult rowers (available to download for free)
Prevalence and risk factors for back pain in sports: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Analysing and presenting the epidemiology of injury & illness in the Australian Rowing Team across two Olympic cycles [London 2012, Rio 2016] https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/25/bjsports-2019-101402.info
Investigating and reporting on a case series of all rib bone injuries sustained by Australian Rowing Team athletes in the Rio Olympic cycle.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/01/20/bjsports-2019-101584.abstract
Publishing a paper on the role of early surgical intervention in elite rowers for the management of intersection syndrome in the competition period.
https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000535