Tendinopathy Theme Issue of BJSM Following the success of the tendinopathy issue in 2007, BJSM will publish ‘Tendinopathy Theme Issue’ in 2009. This edition will concentrate on clinical perspectives of diagnosing and managing tendinopathy. Specifically, we are looking for papers that have direct or inferred clinical application that will help clinicians manage patients with tendon […]
Month: February 2008
2008 Concussion Conference in Zurich this October!
Clinicians the world over have appreciated the concussion consensus meetings in Vienna (2001) and Prague (2004). Journal citations, conference discussion and personal anecdote suggest the output from this meeting might be one of the major advances in sports medicine over the past decade. The 2008 Concussion Conference will be hosted by FIFA and takes place […]
Integrating Physical Activity into Clinical Practice.
Special The Issue of BJSM — Guest editor – Professor Steven Blair Leading international authors have agreed to contribute to this issue as part of the battle against physical inactivity. This is a terrific opportunity for you to publish your original research alongside wonderful perspective pieces from these authors. Any questions, feel free to email […]
Is it time for BJSM to go to open review?
Right now BJSM has double blind review — we ask authors to anonymize their papers, reviewers’ names are shrouded in secrecy. BJSM is the only BMJ publication that has this policy. Is it time to adopt BMJ approach and have open review? Do you believe the evidence that ‘big name’ authors have papers accepted more […]
Early days
I am very excited and most grateful that 6 international leaders in sports and exercise medicine have agreed to serve as Senior Associate Editors in Chief – Babette Pluim (Netherlands), Jill Cook (Australia), Liza Arendt (US), Steven Stovitz (US), Roald Bahr (Norway) and Timothy Noakes (South Africa). This senior leadership group and I will take […]