Dr Carly D McKay

Reader in Sport Injury Prevention with expertise in epidemiology, behavioural medicine, and implementation science

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Sport Injury Prevention

About

Dr Carly McKay completed her BKin (2006) and MSc in Sport Medicine (2008) at the University of Calgary (Canada), and her PhD in Kinesiology (2011) at Western University (Canada). She is currently the Director of Research at Podium Analytics (London) and a Reader in Injury Prevention and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health, Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (Chi2PS) at the University of Bath. She is an executive member of the UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS), which is one of 11 International Research Centres for the Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health supported by the International Olympic Committee. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Carly’s research focuses on the role of psychosocial and behavioural factors in sport injury risk and recovery, and using behaviour change approaches to support injury prevention strategies. She also has experience implementing large-scale prevention initiatives in elite and grassroots sport, as well as driving policy change in national and international sport organisations.

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Twenty year analysis of professional men’s rugby union knee injuries from the English premiership shows high rates and burden
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2024
Associations between growth, maturation and injury in youth athletes engaged in elite pathways: a scoping review
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2024
Feasibility and acceptability of a new shoulder-specific warm-up programme to prevent injuries in community youth rugby union as compared to the FIFA 11+
International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
2023
Annual incidence and prevalence of injuries in elite male academy cricketers: A 4-year prospective cohort study
JSAMS Plus
2024
Match injuries in English schoolboy rugby union
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
2024
A similar injury profile observed in franchise men’s and women’s cricket in England and Wales: injury surveillance analysis from the first three ‘The Hundred’ competitions
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
2024
Coaching teamwork: Team sport athletes’ and coaches’ perceptions of how coaches facilitate teamwork
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
2024
Sport-related major trauma incidence in young people and adults in England and Wales: a national registry-based study
Injury Prevention
2023
Youth Injury Knowledge and Beliefs following Neuromuscular Training Warm-up Implementation in Schools
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2023
Interactive effects of sex and pain on elevated depressive symptoms in university student athletes
International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
2022
Understanding the role of physical activity on the pathway from intra-articular knee injury to post-traumatic osteoarthritis disease in young people: a scoping review protocol
BMJ Open
2023
Barriers and facilitators to implementing the Activate injury prevention exercise programme – A qualitative study of schoolboy rugby coaches
International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
2022
Biomechanical risk factors for knee osteoarthritis and lower back pain in lower limb amputees: protocol for a systematic review
BMJ Open
2022
Running Every Time, Planking Sometimes: Youth Adherence to a Neuromuscular Training Program
Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine
2022
‘Do we know if we need to reduce head impact exposure?’: A mixedmethods study highlighting the varied understanding of the longterm risk and consequence of head impact exposure across all stakeholders at the highest level of rugby union
South African Journal of Sports Medicine
2022
Effectiveness of theActivateinjury prevention exercise programme to prevent injury in schoolboy rugby union
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2022
Prolonged restricted training, fixture congestion and player rotation: What the COVID-19 pandemic taught us about injury risk in professional collision sport
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
2022
The Impact of COVID-19 Related Disruption on Injury Rates in Elite Men’s Domestic Cricket
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2021
Hamstring injuries in England and Wales elite men's domestic cricket from 2010 to 2019
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
2022
Injury Rates and Characteristics Associated with Participation in Organized Dance Education: A Systematic Review
Journal of Dance Medicine & Science
2022
Injuries in Elite Men’s Rugby Union: An Updated (2012–2020) Meta-Analysis of 11,620 Match and Training Injuries
Sports Medicine
2021
Detecting Injury Risk Factors with Algorithmic Models in Elite Women’s Pathway Cricket
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2021
reliability of the scapular posture and scapular dyskinesis tests in rugby union players
South African Journal of Sports Medicine
2021
Employing Standardised Methods to Compare Injury Risk Across Seven Youth Team Sports
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2021
Padded Headgear does not Reduce the Incidence of Match Concussions in Professional Men’s Rugby Union: A Case-control Study of 417 Cases
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2021
“You come up with different theories every year”: Practitioner perceptions of injury risk factors and player monitoring practices in elite men’s domestic cricket
International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
2021
Injuries and Training Practices in Competitive Adolescent Distance Runners: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
2021
Utilising a Behaviour Change Model to Improve Implementation of the Activate Injury Prevention Exercise Programme in Schoolboy Rugby Union
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2021
Canadian High School Rugby Coaches Readiness for an Injury Prevention Strategy Implementation: Evaluating a Train-the-Coach Workshop
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
2021
Implementation of theActivateinjury prevention exercise programme in English schoolboy rugby union
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
2021
“I think we need to empower people to manage it better themselves”: A qualitative interview study exploring UK healthcare practitioners’ perspectives on treating young adults following a sport-related knee injury
Physical Therapy in Sport
2021
Prevalence and burden of health problems in competitive adolescent distance runners: A 6-month prospective cohort study
Journal of Sports Sciences
2021
Concussion Burden, Recovery, and Risk Factors in Elite Youth Ice Hockey Players
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2021
Effect of Exercise on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
2020
Athlete health protection: Why qualitative research matters
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
2020
Strategies used by professional rugby union clubs to manage players for artificial turf exposure
South African Journal of Sports Medicine
2020
Sticking to It: A Scoping Review of Adherence to Exercise Therapy Interventions in Children and Adolescents With Musculoskeletal Conditions
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy
2020
Injuries in England and Wales elite men’s domestic cricket: A nine season review from 2010 to 2018
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
2020
Evaluating the Implementation of Injury Prevention Strategies in Rugby Union and League: A Systematic Review using the RE-AIM Framework
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2020
Implementing a junior high school-based programme to reduce sports injuries through neuromuscular training (iSPRINT): a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT)
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2019
Injury and Player Availability in Women’s International Pathway Cricket from 2015 to 2019
International Journal of Sports Medicine
2020
Nobody says to you “come back in six months and we’ll see how you’re doing”: a qualitative interview study exploring young adults’ experiences of sport-related knee injury
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
2020
Serious sports-related injury in England and Wales from 2012-2017: a study protocol
Injury Epidemiology
2020
Patterns of training volume and injury risk in elite rugby union: An analysis of 1.5 million hours of training exposure over eleven seasons
Journal of Sports Sciences
2019
2020 CASEM Poster Presentations
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2020
Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction in Former Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Sports Medicine
2019
Time-related changes in quality of life in persons with lower limb amputation or spinal cord injury: protocol for a systematic review
Systematic Reviews
2019
Prevention, management and long-term consequences of sport and exercise-related musculoskeletal disorders
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
2019
Youth sport: Friend or Foe?
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
2019
We need to talk about manels: the problem of implicit gender bias in sport and exercise medicine
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2018
Advancing adherence research in sport injury prevention
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2018
A qualitative examination of women’s self-presentation and social physique anxiety during injury rehabilitation
Physiotherapy
2018
Reducing musculoskeletal injury and concussion risk in schoolboy rugby players with a pre-activity movement control exercise programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2017
Predicting sport and occupational lower extremity injury risk through movement quality screening: a systematic review
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2016
Astronaut adherence to exercise-based reconditioning: Psychological considerations and future directions
Musculoskeletal Science and Practice
2017
An Examination of Women’s Self-Presentation, Social Physique Anxiety, and Setting Preferences during Injury Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Research and Practice
2017
A qualitative examination of women's self-presentation and social physique anxiety during injury rehabilitation
Physiotherapy
2016
Predictors of FIFA 11+ Implementation Intention in Female Adolescent Soccer: An Application of the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) Model
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2016
‘Compliance’ versus ‘adherence’ in sport injury prevention: why definition matters
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2015
The efficacy of a movement control exercise programme to reduce injuries in youth rugby: a cluster randomised controlled trial
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
2016
The impact of concussion on cardiac autonomic function: A systematic review
Brain Injury
2015
Risk factors for injury in sport climbing and bouldering: a systematic review of the literature
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2015
Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Ottawa 2015, CASEM Annual Scientific Conference, February 11-14, 2015, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2015
Incidence, mechanism and risk factors for injury in youth rock climbers
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Canadian Sport Injury Prevention Research Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 11-14, 2015
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2015
The effect of coach and player injury knowledge, attitudes and beliefs on adherence to the FIFA 11+ programme in female youth soccer
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
Knowledge translation in sport injury prevention research: an example in youth ice hockey in Canada
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2013
Baseline Evaluation in Youth Ice Hockey Players: Comparing Methods for Documenting Prior Concussions and Attention or Learning Disorders
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy
2014
EFFECT OF PREVIOUS CONCUSSION OR INJURY ON SPORT-SPECIFIC SKILLS IN ELITE YOUTH ICE HOCKEY: A PILOT STUDY
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
INJURY RATES, MECHANISMS, AND RISK FACTORS FOR INJURY IN YOUTH ROCK CLIMBERS
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
NEUROCOGNITIVE PERFORMANCE AT RETURN TO PLAY IN ELITE YOUTH HOCKEY PLAYERS WITH SPORT-RELATED CONCUSSION
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
RISK FACTORS FOR SPORT INJURY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: ARE CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER OR ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AT GREATER RISK OF INJURY?
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
SURVEY OF SPORT PARTICIPATION AND SPORT INJURY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
THE EFFECT OF EXPOSURE TO THE FIFA 11+ WARM-UP PROGRAM ON INJURY RISK KNOWLEDGE AND PREVENTION BELIEFS IN ELITE FEMALE YOUTH SOCCER
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
THE IMPACT OF CONCUSSION ON CARDIAC AUTONOMIC FUNCTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF EVIDENCE FOR RECOVERY AND PREVENTION
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
USING THE HEALTH ACTION PROCESS APPROACH (HAPA) MODEL TO PREDICT ADHERENCE TO THE FIFA 11+ PROGRAM IN ELITE FEMALE YOUTH SOCCER
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2014
Psychometric Properties and Reference Values for the ImPACT Neurocognitive Test Battery in a Sample of Elite Youth Ice Hockey Players
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
2014
The epidemiology of professional ice hockey injuries: a prospective report of six NHL seasons
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2013
The Role of Psychosocial Risk Factors for Injury in Elite Youth Ice Hockey
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2013
Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre and Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine Canadian Sport Injury Prevention Research Symposium April 24, 2013 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2013
Absence of Differences Between Male and Female Adolescents With Prior Sport Concussion
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
2014
Abstract issue of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
2012
Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine Sport and Exercise Medicine on the Western Edge 2013 CASEM Annual Scientific Conference April 24-27, 2013 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2013
Evaluation of how different implementation strategies of an injury prevention programme (FIFA 11+) impact team adherence and injury risk in Canadian female youth football players: a cluster-randomised trial
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2013
Subjective, but not Objective, Lingering Effects of Multiple Past Concussions in Adolescents
Journal of Neurotrauma
2013
The effect of age, sex, and concussion history on preseason ImPACT values of elite Canadian youth ice hockey players
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2013
The Effect of a Prehabilitation Exercise Program on Quadriceps Strength for Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
PM&R
2012
Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre and Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine Canadian Sport Injury Prevention Research Symposium June 20, 2012 Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2012
Comparing the Lower Limb Tasks Questionnaire to the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index: Agreement, Responsiveness, and Convergence With Physical Performance for Knee Osteoarthritis Patients
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
2013
Abstract
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
2011
Risk factors for injury and severe injury in youth ice hockey: a systematic review of the literature
Injury Prevention
2010
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine 19th Annual Meeting, Cancun, Mexico April 17-21, 2010
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2010
Examining Attitudes Toward Body Checking, Levels of Emotional Empathy, and Levels of Aggression in Body Checking and Non-Body Checking Youth Hockey Leagues
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2009
Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine Annual Scientific Symposium, March 27-30, 2007, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
2007

Education

University of Calgary

BKin, Mind Science / June, 2006

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

University of Calgary

MSc, Sport Medicine / November, 2008

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Western University

PhD, Kinesiology / October, 2011

London, Ontario, Canada

Experience

University of Bath

Reader in Injury Prevention / April, 2015Present

University of Calgary

Postdoctoral Fellow / September, 2011March, 2015

Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology

Podium Analytics

Director of Research / November, 2024Present

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