Our new article was published in Survive and Thrive today. This is a journal of narrative medicine and medical humanities. It is published as part of a special edition (edited by Professor David Beard of the University of Minnesota, Duluth)…
On 7 June 2023, Charlotte Nichols (MP for Warrington North) proposed a debate in the Houses of Parliament on wrestling licensing. We were proud to have our work mentioned in this debate, particularly our recent explorations of concussion which were…
In this post, Sam West (doctoral candidate at Loughborough University and co-founder of Wrestling Resurgence) reflects on a couple of the key terms that reappeared in our interviews. I am a curator, an early career scholar, and a wrestling promotor.…
After a year of gathering data, we celebrated the end of the Health and Wellbeing in Professional Event with a roundtable event bringing together key stakeholders from the wrestling community and academia. We discussed the findings of the project and…
“It just took me straight back to when I first started wrestling training, and how beat up I was from that. But…you do develop a kind of callous to it and…you become less sore as time goes on and you get…
Concussion has become a contentious topic in global sport, with footballers attributing brain injury to heading the ball and legal cases being brought against rugby union authorities. Initial data analysis would suggest that in wrestling too concussion is a serious…
We have recently completed the interviews for the Health and Wellbeing in Professional Wrestling project. We have spoken to wrestlers, promoters and referees. Thank you to everyone who has so generously contributed to this project. It has been so encouraging…