Mind the Soft Tissue Gap- a Trainee’s perspective.

By Dr Irfan Ahmed @Irfan_sem As a sports medicine registrar I often get asked the question: what do you actually do? The question is usually accompanied by a puzzled look (intrigue, I imagine) and a proposal that it’s a bit like “conservative orthopaedics”. After years of attempting different responses, including passionate descriptions of musculoskeletal (MSK) […]

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Autonomic Dysreflexia and Boosting: Non-pharmacological doping in disability sport

Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective – a BJSM blog series By Dr Robin Chatterjee @sportsdocrob and Dr Sonia Bains @DrSoniaBains Participation and interest in disability sport is at an all-time high. This was demonstrated by record audiences, TV viewership and levels of income generated by the 2012 London Paralympics and 2017 IAAF World Para-Athletic Championships. The […]

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Where is Sport and Exercise Medicine heading?

Guest Blog by Dr Pria Krishnasamy The UK trainee perspective (The BJSM blog features the trainee perspective every two weeks)* As I edge closer to the crossroads of my own career, I muse aloud as to where Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) is heading?  Is the majority of our workload going to involve musculoskeletal medicine […]

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