NGO and charity committed to reducing injury in sport

The Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford

We’ve established, in partnership with the University of Oxford, a first-of-its-kind research programme.

The SportSmart Adaptation Model

Five steps to support healthy adaptation in sport and physical activity.

Providing the building blocks of adaptation by increasing care, competence and confidence in youth sport and reducing the risk of injury.

Exploring young people’s experiences of sports injury in their own words, in partnership with the Centre for Mental Health.

Putting young people at the heart of research and shifting the focus from treatment to prevention of youth and grassroots sports injury

Considering all interlinked, core and periphery factors relating to the cause and effect of injury