Figures often beguile me, especially when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case….’There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’. – Mark Twain A beguiling and artful video promoting exercise went viral: a good thing, right? Delighted tweets and emails came at me from people whose judgment I respect. […]
Category: Debates
23 and a half hours video passes 2 million views!
Mike Evans circulated this to his hockey team of kids early in December 2011. #1 educational video on YouTube. Remember that low fitness (<30 mins of physical activity daily) kills more Americans that smoking, diabetes, and obesity combined (smokadiabesity). Click on this link. Watch it, share it. Do it yourself. Encourage patients to watch it […]
Moneyball: Rewarding excellent sports medicine care. But check your indemnity limit. You may need more if treating elite professional athletes.
UKsem was the first conference to have a ‘Moneyball’ panel session; attendees voted with their feet that this should happen again. What’s ‘Moneyball’? The unabridged term refers to Michael Lewis’ book of that name. It’s about a baseball team who performed much better than they should have by recruiting cheap players who didn’t have the […]
ACL update…first day at UKSEM 2011, London
Reporting from UKsem 2011 – the largest Sports and Exercise Medicine and performance Conference in Europe. London’s Excel conference centre 23rd November – no downtime for the BJSM blog! Richard Frobell opened with 3 major revelations. #1. ACL injuries are associated with arthritis – whether you have a reconstruction or not. (citation classic, 103 citations […]
Confusion/difference of opinion on investigating compartment syndrome. BJSM poll results are in!
The results of the latest BJSM home-page poll are in. We had a split!! Folks can’t agree on a very common procedure in sports medicine. Yikes!! Out of 120 respondents, 57% preferred that all 4 compartments are measured in both legs to diagnose chronic compartment syndrome. Unless both methods have equal outcomes a large proportion […]
Chronic Compartment Syndrome and Surgery — Are patients being tested correctly for this condition? How are your patients tested?
The authors respond to Dr van Rensburg’s letter published in the blog post below. Letter from Dr. Hislop: Dear Christa, The 2 articles were written as a Head to Head– (see link to papers on how to test for compartment syndrome). Dr Hutchinson and I contrast our approaches to the case of the patient with […]
Dr Lynley Anderson’s response to: Team Doctor….how far is too far?
Guest blog by Dr Lynley Anderson In the recent BJSM blog post, Team Doctor…how far is too far?, Dr James Thing raised the issue of clinical professional boundaries in the provision of sports health care; he is ideally placed to comment as both a team doctor and GP. Determining the limits of what a team […]
We can all relax about the ‘8 glasses of water a day’ myth – another example of ‘selling sickness’
The subheading for Margaret McCartney’s recent BMJ commentary reads ‘Medical marketing’. Should that be a topic in health professionals’ curriculum now? Anatomy, Physiology, Marketing, Biochemistry? It would make sense to have a subject to balance Pharmacology. It could be called Unpharmacology. The former covers the legitimate benefits of appropriate prescription of effective medication for clinical […]
Educating ALL Medical Specialists to consider exercise as the fifth vital sign – Dr. Danica Bonello Spiteri comments
Guest blog by Dr. Danica Bonello Spiteri I read with great interest your article ‘Developing healthcare systems to support exercise: exercise as the fifth vital sign’ (Sallis R. Br J Sports Med May 2011 45;6:473-4 – Free online). My main concern is whether we should also be educating the physicians. I recently was involved in […]
Prof Evert Verhagen comments on the need for more implementation research
By Professor Evert Verhagen In reaction to the guest blog by professor Caroline Finch (May 9th), it is really good to see that the important topic of implementation gets the attention it needs. I’ve heard many times, in relation to van Mechelen’s sequence of prevention [1], that we need more intervention studies. This is whilst […]