By Dr Brinda Christopher Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A BJSM blog series) Keeping up to date with new medical app releases can be time consuming and often unrewarding. This is partly due to poorly organized app stores and over zealous medical app websites written by generalists. For that reason I reviewed several […]
Category: Guest Posts
Personalised dose, prescription and administration of exercise using the MedExercise device: a pilot study
By Drs. Vadim N. Dedov and Irina V. Dedova ABSTRACT Background/Aim – Beneficial health effects of regular physical activity and exercise are well established. However, a variety of exercise types and modes complicates quantification of physical activity. Introduction of a single parameter for the objective measurement of exercise amounts might facilitate exercise prescription in primary care […]
McArdle Olympians – lessons from patients’ own experiences
By Dr. Alejandro Lucia and Mr. Andrew Wakelin In this guest blog, we present self-reports of exercise accomplishments by McArdle patients. Glycogenosis type V (glycogen storage disease type V [GSD V], McArdle disease or myophosphorylase deficiency) is a relatively rare (e.g. prevalence of ~1/167,000 Spanish people) disorder of skeletal-muscle carbohydrate metabolism inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. […]
Exercise Medicine: Inspiring the next generation, an interview with Dr. Mike Loosemore (Part 1 of 2)
By Liam West (@Liam_West) & Dr. Mike Loosemore Undergraduate perspective on Sports & Exercise Medicine (a BJSM blog series) The field of Sport & Exercise Medicine has two distinct areas. Namely, Exercise Medicine and Sports Medicine. To gain insights and get tips for students looking to follow in their footsteps, I interviewed two influential figures pushing the […]
‘Run the World’ to change health behaviours – are you ready to practise what you preach?
By Liam West (@Liam_West) We all know regular physical activity is good for our health. So good in fact that it is often regarded as the equivalent of medicine’s ‘wonder drug.’ Exercise prescription is steadily increasing in practice and there might even be medico-legal implications if we don’t encourage patients to get physically active to […]
Lance Armstrong: The Fall of a Hero
Guest blog by Professor Phillip Sparling Please see Professor Sparling’s related call to action. Here’s the link – a petition written to Lance Armstrong. I’m grieving. October 2012 will forever be imprinted in my memory as the month of damning revelations and the demise of Lance Armstrong. I’m not naïve about the use of drugs […]
Modern Day Gladiators – A day at the Colosseum and thoughts of Super 15 at Kings Park.
Guest Blog by SASMA President – Dr Glen Hagemann Two weeks ago I attended the FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine in Rome. I particularly enjoyed visiting the Colosseum and learning about the Roman gladiators, whose similarity to modern professional rugby players became more and more evident the longer I spent there! The Colosseum had […]
Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Cardiac Screening: A trainee perspective
By Dr. Khine Win Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A twice-monthly Guest Blog) I recently had the honour of assisting with cardiac screening in a dance company and an academy football team. I came across many concerned parents and athletes. Some refused to participate in screening tests. Some even attempted to hide their […]
Concussion management in England’s FA – better than it appears in new BJSM paper….
E-letter and update by Dr Ian Beasley (FFSEM) In response to: Jo Price, Peter Malliaras, Zoe Hudson. 2012. Current practices in determining return to play following head injury in professional football in the UK. Br J Sports Med 2012; 0: 201109068 (Original article). [this paper is Online First and is included in the upcoming November Print Issue […]
Exercise as a medicine for both health professionals and patients!
By Ann Gates (@exerciseworks) This blog is an excerpt from: www.exercise-works.org blog on exercise as a medicine label Generic name: Regular, daily exercise Uses: For the prevention and treatment of most non communicable diseases such as: heart disease, cancer, hypertension, stroke, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, mental health problems, parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma, chronic obstructive airways disease, musculoskeletal […]