Previous Asian Football Confederation sports medicine conferences were held in Malaysia, Oman and Japan. The 2011 Conference on Science and Football Medicine is being held from March 18–20 in Kuala Lumpur and a terrific cadre of football experts are on the program. […]
Year: 2010
Ironman Kona – Plan for 2011! (October 2nd-6th)
Do you take care of endurance athletes? Consider the Ironman Sports Medicine Conference in Kona, Hawaii. The 2011 Meeting is in the first week of October (2nd-6th) and it leads up to the World Championship which is on October 8th. The conference is multidisciplinary and very collegial; all hands are on deck to provide coverage […]
E-letter: Are we ready for GGPAQ?
The following E-letter is a response to Physical activity in the UK: a unique crossroad (Br J Sports Med 2010; 44: 912-914). The original article can be read here. I was delighted to read Dr Weilers editorial which eloquently presents many of the issues currently faced in exercise medicine. It is so important to debate this […]
Interesting Comments From David Butler’s team: Core and Back pain
Back pain is one of BJSM’s central issues – exercise is a major part of treatment of course. In December 2008, we included Paul Hodges’ summary of a decade of work, Transversus abdominis: a different view of the elephant, and this paper topped the page views for some months. At the same time as Professor Hodges work […]
Tackling Osteoarthritis in Sport Conference, London, 21-22 October 2010
Arthritis Research UK and the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM) are holding a conference to investigate the prevention and management of osteoarthritis following sport or exercise. Leading international speakers presenting at Tackling Osteoarthritis in Sport include Dr J Richard Steadman (Colorado), renowned for his knee surgery and rehabilitation work with elite sportspeople; and Jiri […]
ASICS UKSEM (Sports and Exercise Medicine) Conference; November 24-27, 2010
This is really going to be an awesome meeting so beg, borrow, or just bust through the security to be part of this historic event. The website is www.uksem.org, and there are regular updates on Twitter. Organiser Andrew Franklyn-Miller reports that the participants will represent a very broad church; from physician to physiotherapist, soft tissue to strength and conditioning, physiologists to […]
Worst Drinks in The World – Drinks that Kill You with Calories
This smorgasbord of liquid cardiac stress tests is fascinating because some of them look so benign (see SoBe Tea). And I’ve even handled some of these weapons of self-destruction (the Starbucks logo is so pretty against a coffee background). And feel free to check back to Neil King and John Blundell’s review in the December […]
Crying wolf: When media reports distort research evidence
As a researcher who has spent a considerable period investigating the risks of injury 1 2 in rugby, and setting up and evaluating injury prevention programmes designed to mitigate the risks 3, I read the BBC media report of July 4, 2010 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10501327) quoting Professor Allyson Pollock that ‘high tackles and scrums should be banned […]
E-Letter: Performance anomalies in running shoe design: Psychological factors?
The following E-Letter is a response to The effect of three different levels of footwear stability on pain outcomes in women runners: a randomised control trial . Abstract | Full article Ryan et al (1) provide empirical evidence that standards for running shoes in relation to foot posture are far from convincing. In particular, a sophisticated […]
Caffeine/Sleeping pills in sport captures national media attention in Australia
On July 5th, a prominent Australian Rules football player suffered an ‘adverse reaction’ to sleeping pills after a game. Drug testing confirmed that the player had not taken any banned drugs and there was no suggestion of that. The media ran stories of players being on a cycle of caffeine ‘uppers’ followed by sleeping pill […]