Guest Blog by Dr Pria Krishnasamy The UK trainee perspective (The BJSM blog features the trainee perspective every two weeks)* As I edge closer to the crossroads of my own career, I muse aloud as to where Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) is heading? Is the majority of our workload going to involve musculoskeletal medicine […]
Category: Sport and exercise medicine discipline
The speciality is Sport and Exercise Medicine. It’s time to get the balance right.
Guest blog By Dr Matthew Stride The UK trainee perspective (A monthly BJSM blog feature)* The year 2012 represents a pivotal time for the speciality of Sport and Exercise Medicine. Time will tell whether the Olympic and Paralympic Games will leave any significant lasting ‘legacy’ on the health of our nation.1 However there is no […]
Sport and Exercise Medicine: A Fresh Approach – NHS Information Document
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 […]
Is the global movement ‘tipping’? Exercise IS medicine
Three exciting updates from the frontlines of health promotion through physical activity. First, congratulations to Professor Steven Blair for winning the Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health. This international competition celebrates a researcher whose work promises to broaden understanding of how physical activity, nutrition or psychosocial factors influence personal health and well-being. Professor […]
Cast your Nomination for the BMJ Award for Sport and Exercise Team of the Year (February 28th Deadline!)
Are you aware of (or part of!) an outstanding team project or initiative in the UK that promotes physical activity and the improved care of athletes? We want to know about it. The 2012 BMJ Group Improving Health Awards has a new category geared at Sports Medicine Practitioners. The award for Sport and Exercise Team […]
Injury surveillance on young elite athletes participating in the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck/Austria
BJSM e-letter by: Gerhard Ruedl and Wolfgang Schobersberger E-letter for: Kathrin Steffen, Lars Engebretsen. The Youth Olympic Games and a new awakening for sports and exercise medicine. BJSM. 2011; 45: 1251-1252 (Warm up) Do we really want to see our young promising talents go through a major injury at one stage into their career? Definitely no! However, […]
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 […]
ACL update…first day at UKSEM 2011, London
Reporting from UKsem 2011 – the largest Sports and Exercise Medicine and performance Conference in Europe. London’s Excel conference centre 23rd November – no downtime for the BJSM blog! Richard Frobell opened with 3 major revelations. #1. ACL injuries are associated with arthritis – whether you have a reconstruction or not. (citation classic, 103 citations […]
ICSEMIS 2012 – Final call for abstracts (November 1 deadline!)
The closing deadline for abstracts for the 5th annual International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS) is one week away. Adopting a multi-disciplinary perspective, ICSEMIS is sure to attract a veritable smorgasbord of hot topics in sports and exercise medicine. Convention sub-themes relevant to sports medicine clinicians include: Health promotion through physical […]
HYMS Society for Sport and Exercise Medicine: Reflections and Moving Forward
Guest blog by Sean Carmody “Where are all of the other students?” This was the question posed by opening speaker Dr. John Moroney at the official launch of The Hull York Medical School (HYMS) Society for Sport and Exercise Medicine last year. He was referring to the fact that there were only fifty or so students […]