
David Opar
@davidopar
Director of the Sports Performance, Recovery, Injury and New Technologies (SPRINT) Research Centre
Australian Catholic University.
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https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/sprint-research-centre 11-03-2012 12:05:56
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We are excited to announce our partnership with the Sacramento Kings. Our team look forward to providing leading edge research and practice and a passion for developing the next generation of high performance talent. Read more here - bit.ly/3aTlnyz #sprintinaction


The SPRINT Research Centre website now has our academic staff profiles, PhD & Honours student projects (links below). If you are interested in a research degree in our performance, recovery or injury research programs please get in touch. bit.ly/3tKZlUR bit.ly/3o9Rxeg



Big congrats to Dr. Jordi Vicens Bordas 🎗 successfull PhD defence. Main supervisor Azahara Fort Vanmeer Hard working Sports Scientists with excellent work on hamstring injury risk factors and flywheel/traditional strength training. Also PhD student number 10 that I have had the honor to supervise


Great to see Shona Halson announced as a keynote speaker for Sports Medicine Australia 2021 Conference - great to have face to face conferences back in our calendars 📅 #sprintinaction



Check out Shona Halson talking about the importance of sleep in elite athletes #SPRINTResearch youtube.com/watch?v=Yq-OtB… Ryan Timmins David Opar Rich Johnston Stuart Cormack Kassia Beetham Paul Tofari Nirav Maniar Jack Hickey

Muscle Activity and Activation in Previously Strain-Injured Lower Limbs: A Systematic Review. First PhD Paper Joel Presland. Swing+Propul phase deficits, plus ecc strength tests show more than conc? Dyno also dif to NHE. Considerations for testing modes? link.springer.com/article/10.100…


Congrats to David Opar Ryan Timmins Nirav Maniar Jack Hickey on being part of the research team awarded US$4m in funding from the NFL for hamstring injury research. Full press release here nfl.com/news/nfl-scien…



We are excited to welcome new postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Suzy Russell Suzy Russell to the ACU team. The position, in partnership with the AIS Australian Institute of Sport, aims to evaluate and improve mental fatigue and recovery in elite athletes

Applications for PhDs now open at ACU. We will be posting presentations on the PhD opportunities for the Peformance, Recovery and Injury Research Programs in SPRINT Research Centre very soon. Stay tuned.

Join Dr David Opar on Wednesday 10th November @ 10am AEDT to discuss all things hamstrings. #SPRINTinACTION Link here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…


We get a lot of practitioners asking us these 4 questions. In a talk for our SPRINT Research Centre Research Centre I'll provide the evidence that informs our answers. If you are keen to have a listen, details for the presentation are provided in the tweet below


Title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomechanics Place: SPRINT Research Centre 🇦🇺 💰Salary: $104,430 - $145,913 📆 Deadline: 20/2/22 ℹ️ For more info👇 acu.edu.au/about-acu/care…



Great opportunities for anyone looking to pursue a PhD within our SPRINT Research Centre Research Centre. Please take a look if you are interested.

A PhD scholarship opportunity to join the SPRINT Research Centre team. The project will utilise data collected as part of the HAMIR study, be the largest hamstring injury risk factor study every conducted (study protocol …sportsscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10…)