AMSSM/OHSU Basic and Intermediate Sports Ultrasound Course – a few spots still available

Looking to jump into Sports Ultrasound? Need to expand your skill set?  Want to learn and practice some new injection techniques? Join the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Sports Ultrasound courses November 11-13, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. We offer both Basic (one day) and intermediate (two day) […]

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Counseling athletes with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; a difficult task for the sports physician.

By Dr. Tijmen van Assen, Wouter van Everdingen, and Prabath Lodewijks Recently the combined American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) taskforces defined eligibility and disqualification recommendations for competitive athletes with cardiovascular abnormalities [1]. In this blog we discuss the recommendations of the task force concerning hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM is the most common non-traumatic […]

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Pain, Performance, Rehabilitation and Life: BASRaT Symposium 2016 – 18 Nov 2016, London 

Top 5 reasons why you need to attend the BASRaT Symposium (in no particular order)  An invaluable day full of renowned experts in the field of pain and workshops to help attendees put theory into practice. Focussing exclusively on pain and all its forms and manifestations it will be vital for practitioners to manage and […]

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Imaging in Sports-Specific Musculoskeletal Injuries

By Karim Khan (@BJSM_BMJ) and Hakim Chalabi (This blog is based on the published preface for the book – it’s not a new piece of writing. Think of BJSM going green – re-use, refresh, re-edit (a bit)). Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!! As experienced sports physicians we have seen most of the injuries, we have listened to very many lectures […]

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Work It. Make It. Do It. Sports injuries at the Olympics: an overview from past games and future directions

#IOCprev2017 Engagement, Evidence, & Practice Blog Series By Nirmala Perera (@Nim_Perera) Examining the changing profiles of injuries provides opportunity for insight, and potential to better embed innovative injury prevention strategies and advances in sports medicine. Athletes from over 200 nations gather every four years for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to celebrate sport, culture, fair play and […]

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School Games: great introduction to a multi-sport experience

Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective –A BJSM blog series By Dr Philippa Turner If anyone is looking for an introduction to the multi-sport experience, look no further than the School Games! Previous medical team alumni (and athletes, of course) have gone on to World University Games, Commonwealth Games, Olympic and Paralympic Games success. […]

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Bewertung von Personen als Risikopatienten – eminenzbasierte Willkür?

Original article in English/ Original Artikel: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/10/01/bjsports-2015-095286.full (BJSM open Access, Editorial) German translation by Isi Schneider @isi69schneider Original article by Järvinen, Teppo LN Zuerst online veröffentlicht am 16. November 2015 Wenn ein Arzt nicht in der Lage ist Gutes zu tun, dann muss man ihn davon abhalten Schaden anzurichten. -Hippokrates. In der heutigen Zeit kann das „hohe […]

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Safety in youth rugby: education is not the answer to the concussion crisis

By Adam White @AdJWhite, Dr. Tim Gamble, and John Batten @JBatz85  Injury worries Despite the potential health benefits from participating in the sport, rugby is under increasing scrutiny as a result of the high number of injuries experienced by youth participants. We know, for example, that injury rates in rugby union for participants under 21 years of age can be […]

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The International Sports Physical Therapy Specialist: reflections on the UK situation (what we may take for granted)

Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sport and Exercise Medicine blog series @PhysiosinSport By Colin Paterson ,MSc PGCert (Ed) MCSP SFHEA RISPT I recently presented at the Japanese Physical Therapy Congress in Saporro on the development of the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT) competencies. Specifically, how we use them in the UK in relation to […]

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