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Dr Adam Gledhill CPsychol FCASES
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Enjoy education, researching, writing, editing, coaching, mentoring, and working with athletes 🧠⚽️🤕😃
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Our next applied article is available in Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal
Toward a Holistic Management of Injured Soccer Players: A Psychosocial Return-to-Performance Pathway (page 282 onwards)

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We hope you enjoy the read!
#injury #returntoperformance #sport
Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal - Volume 14 - Targeted Topic - The Athletic Shoulder
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October 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Interested in creating effective holistic talent development environments in ⚽️?
Delighted to share our recent CASES Expert Statement containing several applied recommendations. We hope you enjoy the read!
Would be nice to discuss ideas with interested folks 🙂
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September 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A little late to the party in sharing our new work, but here goes!

Part I: Why Do Children and Young People Drop Out of Sport? Development and Initial Validation of the Youth Sport Dropout Questionnaire

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June 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Dr Adam Gledhill CPsychol FCASES
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Title: Associate Senior Lecturer in sports science, biomechanics and parasport

📍Place: @GIH 🇸🇪

💰Salary: TBC

📅Deadline: 12/5/25

ℹ For more details👇 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I006/125...
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May 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
dradamgledhill.bsky.social
Thanks, Chelsey! It was a pleasure spending time with you and the team. I enjoyed the discussions and hope that the takeaways are things you can use moving forward! 🤝
chelseydempsey.bsky.social Chelsey Dempsey @chelseydempsey.bsky.social · Mar 10
Thanks @dradamgledhill.bsky.social for coming by the academy last week, sharing your expertise in the psychosocial side of injury prevention & management. Took loads away! 🙌🏻
March 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A paper that, in my opinion, falls in the ‘must read’ category 👌🏼
Social support and therapeutic relationships intertwine to influence exercise behavior in people with sport-related knee injuries: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice: Vol 41, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Social support and therapeutic relationships intertwine to influence exercise behavior in people with sport-related knee injuries
Explore how social support influences exercise therapy participation and adherence before and after enrolling in an education and exercise therapy intervention (Stop OsteoARthritis, SOAR).Study des...
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February 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Dr Adam Gledhill CPsychol FCASES
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BASES #BASESBIG2025 abstract submission info 👇🏻

#biomechanics #Sport #performance #exercise #health #Research
cases-biomech.bsky.social CASES Division of Biomechanics & Motor Behaviour @cases-biomech.bsky.social · Feb 17
Are you thinking of submitting work to #BASESBIG2025 ❓

Some helpful info👇
1️⃣ Abstract submission (template available) 👉 https://buff.ly/3CRkh7p
2️⃣ Deadline👉 midnight 19/3
3️⃣ Areas considered👉 all things #biomechanics
➡️Queries👉 DM or 📨bases.biomech@gmail.com

#sport #exercise #health #research
February 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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"...an injured player with higher perceived social support will experience less re-injury anxiety during #rehabilitation, and consequently they will be more confident in performing well and remaining injury-free upon return to sport."

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February 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Psychological interventions can ⬇️ the risk of injury, reduce injury time loss, and reduce re-injury risk.

Good seeing this injury prevention topic discussed during and following the @UEFA Medical Symposium

Papers 👇🏼

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Psychological interventions used to reduce sports injuries: a systematic review of real-world effectiveness
Objective To systematically review studies examining the role of psychological interventions in injury prevention. The primary research question was: What is the real-world effectiveness of psychologi...
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February 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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“…everyone has a right to health.”

“…to care is not an act of weakness, but of strength.”

Bravo, @thelancet.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼
thelancet.com The Lancet @thelancet.com · Feb 7
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
February 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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These #infographics from the 9th UEFA Medical Symposium in Lugano… 👌🏼 Looks like Dale did a great job exploring psych risk and preventative factors for sport #injury! 👏🏼

See our papers referenced on the graphic:

bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/1...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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February 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Recently, I’ve seen ⬇️ injury prevention and rehab adherence reduced to athletes having a bad attitude. It’s frustrating. There are many reasons why adherence is low, but there are also lots of things we can do to help.
This #editorial covers some ideas:
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‘I’m asking you to believe—not in my ability to create change, but in yours’: four strategies to enhance patients’ rehabilitation adherence
‘I’m asking you to believe—not in my ability to create change, but in yours.’ Former US President Barack Obama provides a poignant message for sport and exercise medicine clinicians that relates to re...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Reflecting a lot on my career lately. Almost 10 years since I/we first spoke - publicly at least - about the importance of post-RTPerf monitoring post- #ACL injury. Based on a case work with elite woman ⚽️ player. My first #podcast

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“I can’t return to play” – When fear of reinjury dominates after ACL reconstruction: Adam Gledhill
Adam Gledhill (http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/adam-gledhill/) is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Leeds Beckett University. He has a terrific amount of experience in sport psych
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January 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Dr Adam Gledhill CPsychol FCASES
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Abstract submission information👇

🔗tinyurl.com/BIGAbstracts25 (a template is available)

Deadline: 19/03/25

For any questions, DM us or📨bases.biomech@gmail.com

#Exercise #FallPrevention #PhysicalActivity #PhysEd #Movement #SportsAnalytics #
January 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Throwback to recording one of my favourite #podcasts a couple of years back with Dale, @running-physio.bsky.social and Stefan 👌🏼

Drinking ☕️ and chatting about how to maximise your patients #rehab adherence
Ep #467 by BMJ talk medicine on #SoundCloud
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Maximise your patients rehab adherence, with Adam Gledhill, Dale Forsdyke and Tom Goom. Ep #467
Joining us on this podcast to discuss this crucial topic are Dr Adam Gledhill, Dr Dale Forsdyke and Tom Goom. Adam is Course Director for Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Leeds Beckett Universi
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January 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Do not neglect injury severity and burden when assessing the effect of sports injury prevention interventions: time to paint the whole picture. Insightful @BJSM_BMJ #Editorial that considers challenges and solutions

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Do not neglect injury severity and burden when assessing the effect of sports injury prevention interventions: time to paint the whole picture
The outcomes typically reported from injury prevention trials are incidence rates. In this editorial, we show that this approach only paints part of a bigger picture and could even lead to misinterpre...
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January 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Understanding practitioner perspectives is 🔑 to developing #sport environments

✅ Multi-stakeholder planning

✅ ‘Doing’ aligns to +ve environment principles

⚠️Out of planning, doing and reviewing, reviewing is given least attention
#openaccess
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Enhancing our understanding of sport practitioner perspectives on developing effective sporting environments
Research has increasingly focused on the environmental features within talent and performance development settings. However, practitioner perspectives on their role in optimizing these environments...
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January 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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1/ Seems “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” still relatively common practice when it comes to #internships

Many internships not openly advertised and are sourced through contacts of family or friends. Not connected = miss out
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January 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Early- and mid-career investigators. I am very excited that CIHR supports the broad vision of "excellence" as outlined in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Here you can get a further $25K to build on your recent successful work. research.ucalgary.ca/opportunity/...
January 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The folks in Sweden know how to put a sports medicine conference together! Stellar line-up and I’m very much looking forward to delivering two presentations in the programme alongside amazing colleagues 😊 #psychology #sport #injury
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Programme – cifu.se
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January 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Interesting study with potential clinical implications for RTP testing post-#concussion?
Dual-task completion differences (slower) in concussion group at RTP.

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Clinically feasible dual-task detects residual post-concussion deficits after return-to-play
Dual-task (DT) has been shown to detect post-concussion deficits even after traditional measures returned to normal. However, previous studies were conducted in laboratory settings that were not fe...
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January 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Almost 7 years devoted to understanding talented girls’ #football experiences. Some of my proudest work (published 2014-2019)

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Developmental experiences of elite female youth soccer players
To advance the literature on talent development within elite female athletes, this study investigated the developmental experiences of elite youth female soccer players. We adopted an interpretive ...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Interested in #psychology of #sport #injury? This international #consensusstatement covers 50 years’ of #research and provides research and applied recommendations that will hopefully shape the next 50 years!

Happy to discuss with folks!

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50 Years of Research on the Psychology of Sport Injury: A Consensus Statement - Sports Medicine
Factors influencing sport injury risk, rehabilitation outcomes, and return to sport processes have been the focus in various research disciplines (sports medicine, psychology and sociology). One disci...
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January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Our 2nd venture into the #esports space: “Cognition, Lifestyle, and Gender: An Umbrella Review of Esport Performance, Participation, and Well-Being”
👏🏼 to Jess for the diligent work leading this. Lots of applied and #research implications. Forthcoming in Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports 🥳
January 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM