Guest Blog By Dr. Richard Weiler Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) has been evolving rapidly around the globe and is gaining mainstream recognition. In the United Kingdom it formally began life in 2005, when the Chief Medical Officer at the time, Liam Donaldson, pledged to develop the specialty as a commitment to the London 2012 […]
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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 […]
Letter to the Editor: Gate control pain modulation theory explains the effectiveness of prolotherapy
E-letter by: Dr. Stavros Saripanidis, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Private Surgery, Thessaloniki, Greece In response to: Simon Petrides. 2011. The use of prolotherapy injections for elite athletes. Br J Sports Med ; 45: 2 (Electronic pages). Dear BJSM Editors, The dorsal horns are not merely passive transmission stations but sites at which dynamic activities (inhibition, […]
PLAYING GENERATION GAMES – a novel approach to active ageing
Guest Blog by Dr Kate Jackson The UK trainee perspective (A monthly BJSM blog feature)* This morning I was walking through woods on one of those glorious crisp days. I stopped in a patch of sunlight, with my North Face hat pulled down over my ears, and I felt a physical upsurge of pure, simple, […]
A little less exaggeration, a little more science please! by Hilda Bastian
Figures often beguile me, especially when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case….’There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’. – Mark Twain A beguiling and artful video promoting exercise went viral: a good thing, right? Delighted tweets and emails came at me from people whose judgment I respect. […]
Rural sport and exercise medicine in the highlands of Scotland – working with Shinty!
Guest blog by Dr Jonathan Hanson FFSEM Like many doctors in sport for years I have relied upon the goodwill of colleagues and employers in the remote corner of Scotland I call home. Last year I felt the time had come to give something back to the local sport in my region, rather than consistently […]
Prevention is better than cure: SEM in the prevention of musculoskeletal injury
Guest Blog by Dr Sarah Davies Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A monthly series on the BJSM blog) “The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.” Hippocrates It’s that time of year when the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future […]
Fit is not actually ‘vs.’ Fat – Guest Blog by Professor Timothy Noakes
On Monday the Guardian published It’s not obesity that’s killing us – it’s the lack of exercise. Inspired by research presented at UKSEM (see also Blair Physical inactivity: the biggest public health problem of the 21st century, and BJSM Warmup 2011; 45), the Guardian exhorted us to focus less on obesity and more on physical […]
Fitness and health of children through sport: the context for action – Guest Blog Caroline Finch
(follow Caroline Finch on Twitter — @CarolineFinch) This relates to: Micheli, L, Mountjoy, M, and Engebretsen, L et al. 2011. Fitness and health of children through sport: the context for action. BJSM. 45:931-936 I read, with great interest, the paper by Micheli et al [1]in the September Injury Prevention and Health Promotion issue of the […]
2012 Olympic test events: encouraging medical preparedness and camaraderie – Guest blog by Dr Kate Hutchings
Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A monthly series on the BJSM blog) With the countdown to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, ‘Test Events’ have started to take place throughout the UK. These are an integral and essential part of the preparation for any games — the London Prepares Series is a comprehensive […]