Abhishek Chitnis 3rd Year Medical Student Keele University Email: v0z55@students.keele.ac.uk The use of prosthetic limbs in medicine has helped many patients over millennia lead a more comfortable life, enabling them to continue their activities of daily living as well as to compete in sport. In developing countries, prosthetic limbs are mainly used because […]
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Mechanisms, persistence, and prevention of airway dysfunction in swimmers
Swimming is consistently one of the most popular Olympic sports. However, at BJSM we don’t care about Twitter gossip on Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice, nor are we particularly concerned if US Champion Michael Phelps wins more medals. We, of course, are interested in noteworthy research on swimmers’ health. We focus today on Valérie Bougault […]
Overcoming barriers for health professionals to give more exercise advice and support to patients
By Ann Gates (@exerciseworks) It is unacceptable in 21st century medicine for 36 million people to die from preventable and treatable diseases! A recent BJSM paper reviewed the barriers to health professionals in giving exercise advice and support to patients within the context of a primary care consultation. This review identified three key barriers to successful brief […]
BMJ’s Olympic Portal – clinical solutions, multimedia and more!
The global buzz for the 2012 Olympics in London (27 July – 12 August) is growing rapidly. Beyond a world-class athletic competition, London 2012 is touted as “THE social media Olympics” – where stories will be told by athletes, and professional and citizen journalists using multiple web-based platforms – on a massive scale. The BMJ is sharing […]
Sudden Cardiac Death screening: notes of caution
By Lynley Anderson & Lynne Bowyer Bioethics Centre, University of Otago In his guest post on the BJSM Blog entitled ‘Call for NHS to review its policy on screening of young people at risk of sudden cardiac death’ Dr Steven Cox laments the decision of the National Screening Committee not to offer screening to young athletes […]
Final Round! – BJSM’s Best Cover of 2011 Competition
Thanks to everyone who voted in rounds 1 & 2. Here are the finalists: A. South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) Congress issue (June 2011) vs. B. BASEM’s Sport and Exercise Medicine Conference issue (July 2011) Who will be the champion? While you can only vote once – get your friends to vote too […]
A Call to Action to ALL health professionals: Giving exercise advice and support to EVERY patient: Part 2
By Ann Gates (@exerciseworks) Giving regular exercise advice and support as part of every health care consultation is fast becoming a critical health intervention in the prevention of the ‘tsunami’ of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes and related cancers. In May 2012 the U.S. Centre for Disease Control together with the Institute of Medicine […]
Injury prevention in high level snowboard: A need to return to first principles?
Guest blog by @CarolineFinch In the recent BJSM blog Is high level snowboard too dangerous to allow your children to participate? Prof Engebretsen raises an important question, namely how to prevent injuries in a sport where pushing the extremes of physical performance in challenging and harsh environments is both an individual athlete and sporting organisation goal.[1] Most recent advances in […]
Call for NHS to review its policy on screening of young people at risk of sudden cardiac death
Guest blog by Dr Steven Cox (from CRY – Cardiac Risk in the Young The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) policy – that “screening should not be offered*” is currently discouraging young people who may be at risk of sudden cardiac death from having simple, non-invasive and potentially life-saving tests. The National Screening Committee need […]
Sports injuries are freak accidents – or are they?
Guest Blog by @CarolineFinch Cross Fertilising ‘Injury Prevention’ journal (IP) and BJSM Compared to many other health issues, it seems that it is not hard to get media stories about sports injury into our daily newspapers. What seems to be hard, is the coupling of such stories with positive injury prevention messages. An interesting paper in the February […]