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Sports activity provides many positives, but it is also the leading cause of injury amongst youth. This talk presents scientific development and evaluation of training to decrease the risk of musculoskeletal injury.
Preventing injuries in sporting populations
Kati Pasanen is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. She is a sport injury epidemiologist and physiotherapist. Her PhD in Injury Prevention (2009) is from the Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tampere, Finland.
Her scientific work has focused on research of sport injuries, including epidemiological, clinical, biomechanical, as well as experimental studies. The primary focus of Dr. Pasanen’s research is the identification of risk factors for knee and ankle joint injuries, and evaluation of prevention methods to decrease the risk of injury in youth sports.
Before moving to Calgary, she worked as a research and development manager in the Tampere Research Center of Sports Medicine at the UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, Finland. She has developed, taught and instructed many educations courses for physiotherapists, physicians, coaches, and PE teachers in the area of sport injury prevention. She is a board member of the Finnish Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, and over 20 years she has served as a coach for adult and adolescent team sport athletes in both national and international level.
Contact:
Jon Doan | jon.doan@uleth.ca | (403) 332-5208
