Chiropractic, Episode3, Reidar Lystad

Beyond the Paper

In this episode, Maddison interviews Dr Reidar P. Lystad about sports injury hospitalisations in children. Dr Lystad is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University. He is an injury epidemiologist with a particular interest in traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, paediatric trauma, and sports injury. His research is centred around conducting large population-based studies using data linkages of administrative data collections to investigate health outcomes following injury and to guide improvements in health service delivery and health policy. Dr Lystad is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the European College of Sport Science, and he is an appointed member of the Public Health Committee of the World Federation of Chiropractic and the Scientific Advisory Committee of Sports Medicine Australia. Paper: Lystad RP, Curtis K, Browne GJ, et al. Incidence, costs, and temporal trends of sports injury-related hospitalisations in Australian children over a 10-year period: A nationwide population-based cohort study. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 2019;22:175-80. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1440244018303979