John Orchard, BJSM guest blog (@DrJohnOrchard) Another major football tournament is on – Euro 2012 – and those following the England team keep reading (yet again) about the number of injured players. Why do injuries seem to be more prevalent than ever if our professionalism is supposedly improving? In trying to answer this question, why […]
Category: Football
FIFA increasing efforts in sport for health leadership – hats off to a role model federation
Budapest May 24th: FIFA provide a landmark in ‘implementation’ and ‘dissemination’ by including their 2nd Medical Congress within the ’62nd FIFA Congress’. This may not seem like a major deal for those unfamiliar with the way sporting federations work but it is right […]
Super Bowl: Two ACL tears and the landmark paper still under review
Guest Blog by BJSM Associate Editor – Dr John Orchard Being an injury geek, the most interesting part of last week’s Super Bowl was hearing that two New York Giants players had suffered ACL injuries on the FieldTurf surface. I have previously made the comment that the football codes are to Australians what languages are to […]
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 […]
Day 2 UKsem…bare feet, public health crisis and tennis elbows. Oh my!
I learned that about 12% of high fit 80+ year olds die annually. Seems a bit unfair. But 27% of low fit 60-69 year olds die annually! No typo. High fit 80-yr olds are HALF AS LIKELY TO DIE as low fit 60-yr olds. Are we talking about 80-yr old Olympians? Nope. High fit is […]
Perfect time to commit to UKsem London…Nov 23 thru 26 or part thereof…
Looking for a world class conference bringing together sport and exercise medicine, conditioning and science with nutrition, rehabilitation and high performance coaching?. This conference will provide new knowledge for those working with elite sport and recreational athletes as well as those presenting to all clinicians for exercise prescription. See the UKsem home page including the […]
Football as Global Health Promotion: FIFA’s 11 for Health Programme
“Prevention is better than a cure, no matter what disease we look at…football is an ideal platform to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent disease.” – Professor Jiri Dvorak, FIFA’s Chief Medical Officer This month’s BJSM Editor’s Choice (free online) highlights an innovative approach to health and exercise promotion in Africa. Authors […]
Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre website — Great online resource
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, located at the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences has a diverse team of experts from the fields of exercise medicine, ortheopedics, epidemiology, biostatistics, and physiotherapy. Its led by professors Lars Engebretsen and Roald Bahr who are both renowned for their experience with national team and Olympic sports medicine. Cutting-edge researchers and advocates for […]
Bloodgate Reversal of Fortune: Ethicist Lynley Anderson comments
As most of you will know from the news barrage, the UK High Court has overturned an earlier decision of the Health Professions Council to have sports physiotherapist Stephen Brennan struck off.(1) Background: Brennan admitted his part in the ‘Bloodgate’ scam. He provided fake blood capsules to the player (Tom Williams) in order to deceive […]
Football Science and Medicine – Kuala Lumpur 2011
AFC Conference on Science & Football Medicine Kuala Lumpur March 18-20, 2011 The past 3 Asian Science and Football conferences (Tokyo; Kuala Lumpur & Muscat) were a great success with approx. 450 participants from all over the world. KL promises a great program of keynote address symposiums, free papers, poster presentations and clinical workshops in Sports […]