Sports Medicine & Exercise Science Video Collection - free access

We have access to this video collection until 14^th February.

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Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video is the most extensive video collection ever assembled in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning, the world’s leading producer of sports medicine videos, the collection features an array of internationally renowned physicians, exercise scientists, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, registered dietitians, sport psychologists, personal trainers, and health/wellness experts who share information, ideas, and insights on the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise science and sports medicine.

To access the trial click here ( you will require your library PIN number).

Training Load Monitoring & Athlete Management Conference - Oct. 3rd

The Sport Science and Health programme at ITT in association with the IRFU will be running a half day research event on Training Load Monitoring and Athlete Management Conference on October 3rd.

Dr. Tim Gabbett has 20 years’ experience working as an applied sport scientist with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports including Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Basketball, Australian Football, and Cricket and has consulted with world leading sports teams and organisations including Manchester United, the New Zealand Rugby Union the Australian Institute of Sport, the National Rugby League and a number of AFL teams. Tim has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and has presented at over 100 national and international conferences. He is committed to performing world-leading research that can be applied in the ‘real world’ to benefit high performance coaches and athletes.

At this unique event, Tim will present his world leading research in team sports and will cover topics such as:

- The relationship between training load and injury

- Injury prediction models

- Return to train, play and “compete” plans

- The protective effect of training

This half-day conference is ideal for sports coaches, S&C coaches, sport scientists and medical staff members who are looking to enhance their understanding of athlete training load monitoring and management.

The course is priced at €75 and can be booked online HERE. 

The course can also be booked by contacting Niamh Nash on 01-6473835 or niamh.nash@irfu.ie.

Free Trial - Ovid LWW Collection until 22nd Nov. 2014

We have a free trial of the LWW Collection - online journals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. You have full text access to over 300 journals of this collection.

Main subjects:

• Clinical Medicine
• Behavioural & Social Sciences
• Health Professions
• Life & Biomedical Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Nursing
• Physical Science & Engineering

The collection contains also journals of reputable societies for example American Heart Association, American Academy of Neurology and American College of Sports Medicine.

• To access the trial click here (Library PIN required)
• Check the box "your journals@ovid" if you want to search only journals to which we have full text access.  Click on select resources and enter your search terms.
• If you select the Journals tab you will see a list of the journals available for the trial period.
• Further information about searching

International Journal of Sports Medicine now available @ Library ITT Dublin

IJSM - Full text access from 2000 - date is now available to students and staff at ITT Dublin.

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The International Journal of Sports Medicine provides a forum for the publication of papers dealing with both basic and applied information that advance the field of sports medicine and exercise science, and offer a better understanding of biomedicine.  The wide range of topics covered in the IJSM include training & testing, orthopedic & clinical sciences, nutrition & behavioral sciences, physiology & biochemistry, biomechanics & immunology.