Posted on October 30, 2017
Prof Paola Wood has always believed that exercise could improve quality of life, and a main objective of her research has been to produce usable and relevant work that can make a difference in people's lives.
Posted on September 27, 2017
South Africa hosts two of the world’s largest individually timed one day cycle races with approximately 35 000 cyclists per race. Despite the fact that these events are major international drawcards and that cycling is a popular recreational activity globally, there is limited research on...
Posted on February 01, 2017
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission (Medical and Science Group) has been established to oversee the development and implementation of a number of activities to ensure optimum medical care to athletes participating in the Olympic Games. One of the most recently introduced...
Posted on September 06, 2016
The University of Pretoria has identified 'Sport, exercise medicine and lifestyle interventions for chronic disease' as one of its four main strategic niche areas for research activity in the next decade.
Posted on March 17, 2016
Health experts recently submitted an open letter to the UK government, calling for tackling in schools rugby to be outlawed. UP's Prof Steve Cornelius has entered this controversial debate with a recently published article.
Posted on November 23, 2015
Poster presentation at ACSM Conference in May 27-30, 2015 held in San Diego, California
Posted on October 19, 2015
Prof Steve Cornelius has conducted extensive research on the high rate of injury in professional sports and says that sport could be facing a major crisis because of this.
Posted on October 06, 2015
According to staff at UP's Section Sports Medicine, successful injury surveillance could motivate sporting bodies to consider and implement rule changes to improve player safety.
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