Changing the face of contact sport

Since April 2015, the NRL has worked hard on reforming their injury policies, implementing stricter rules to ensure players' safety.

As part of this focus on player welfare, CareMonkey was engaged by the NRL to develop a mobile injury reporting system. CareMonkey’s mobile injury reporting module allows trainers and officials to log injury reports instantly via a smartphone app, making it easy to build and maintain an electronic injury profile for players and providing instant visibility on all injuries across clubs, associations and the game at large.

Our CEO, Troy Westley, recently met with Glen Bertoli, Head Trainer at Waverley Oakleigh Panthers. Glen has been one of the Mobile Injury Reporting module's early adopters, and continues to provide the CareMonkey development team with useful feedback on how to make the app more user-friendly.

There are currently 308 players registered at the club. Since implementing the CareMonkey system, managing 14 teams and 10 trainers has become much easier and safer.

Glen Bertoli, Head Trainer
at Waverley Oakleigh Panthers

"We have a number of players at our club with medical conditions, some more serious than others. Our coaches are now able to access their players' up-to-date medical and emergency contact profiles via the CareMonkey system. It's a huge boost to our risk management strategy and provides peace of mind to parents and club admins alike."

Since the start of the season, Glen has reported 28 injuries on his mobile. "It now takes me minutes to complete an injury report. It has been useful to be able to log injuries at the end of each game."

Glen is also assisting the other trainers to get on board using the mobile app. "Migrating from our old paper injury forms to CareMonkey's mobile injury reporting system has reduced our paperwork. It is helping us to build a meaningful injury database across players and the club as a whole."