3-7 June 2009, Vancouver: The Road to 2010 begins in Vancouver in 2009 Website: casm-acms.org/ 14-17 October 2009, Brisbane: Be active ’09 Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport Website: sma.org.au/acsms/ 18-22 October 2009, Couran Cove, South Stradbroke Island: 24th ACSP Annual Scientific Conference Website: acsp.org.au 12-28 February 2010, Vancouver: XXI Olympic Winter Games […]
Month: February 2009
The Potentially Dysfunctional Supervisor-Grad Student Relationship
A proportion of BJSM readers are graduate students or faculty. This article raises the issue that the supervisor-graduate student relationship has the potential to be very one-sided. Trainees can feel that their future hinges on supervisor approval and just as not all people are psychologically intact, there are university faculty who are psychopaths. (See Robert […]
Letter to the Editor: Left-handedness in Boxing
By Maxintosh. Dear Editor, I read with interest the recent article published on this journal about the left-handedness in boxing and the proclivity to success (1). As Gursoy quotes in his paper, the rate of left-handedness in the general population ranges between 1 and 30% in different studies, but the body of medical sports literature […]
Letter to the Editor: Separating fatness from lack of fitness
By Sarmax. In many practical situations such as the treatment of hypertension, it is important to determine whether an improvement of condition following exercise prescription is due to an increase in aerobic fitness, or whether it simply reflects a reduction in body fat content (1) A previous review of 61 studies of training-induced changes in […]
A ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Conference Opportunity
There has been a lot of interest in Professor Paul Hodges’ December BJSM cover story and both his article and that of Garry Allison were in the ‘Top 10’ in January. Here is a chance to catch up with Paul, along with well-known thoracic spine expert Linda-Joy Lee. This Medical/Physiotherapy ship based conference is in […]
Reader Response: Rotator cuff tendinopathy
Photo by Lisa Bettany. By Nicola Maffulli, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Vincenzo Denaro, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Keele University School of Medicine We read with interest the Review Article “Rotator cuff tendinopathy: A review”, by Lewis. This manuscript may have been submitted before the publication of our investigations. Nevertheless, we […]
Reader Response: Inactivity in the 21st Century
By Fergus Joseph Dignan, Civilian Medical Practitioner, MOD I very much enjoyed reading the ‘warm up’ article by Steven N Blair in the January edition of BJSM. The first study that he quoted on attributable fractions for all cause deaths was a real eye popper! I was very surprised to see that low cardiorespiratory fitness […]