Street Fighting Statistics, Martial art technique selection & Medical Outcomes

Very few fighters/trainers have looked at the medical facts related to people's fighting injuries and why they present at a hospital after street fighting or violent assault. To ensure one is studying the correct techniques for self defense (avoiding serious injury in a fight) we should be looking at what is potentially damaging and combining that with a balance of the probability that such an injury will actually occur. This is opposed to blindly practicing techniques year after year that according to the data rarely cause an injury in a street fight. A lesson can be taken from the medical practice acronym "EBP" which stands for evidence-based practice. Medical practitioners use "evidence-based practice" as a practice pathway that involves a doctor analyzing data to establish a path of treatment, or future practice. Practicing the art of self defense should involve training with an understanding of the data related to what violence damages people in the streets. It should not simply follow what martial arts teaches for sports environments based on either "points" or "tap outs" in rule limited systems. Curriculum design is another key topic in the text. This video provides an overview of a book published in 2011 on this topic authored by clinicans and martial artists (ISBN 978-1-4475-2651-3) and is avaliable from the website: http://www.downloadkarate.com/medical-stats-fighting

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