Maudsley Learning will host its 2nd annual conference focusing on mental health within the sports industry later this year. Once again we’ll bring together high profile sporting bodies, coaches, medical professionals and others involved in player welfare, safeguarding and performance to discuss key issues around mental health and wellbeing in the sport industry. Speakers Prof. […]
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Are the new cricket helmet standards enough: what does the evidence say?
The untimely death of Philip Hughes along with the recent Cricket World Cup and a relatively new British Standard for helmets has fuelled the debate for further research into the role of helmets. World-renowned expert on this subject Andrew McIntosh profiled these issues in a recent BMJ blog. He writes: “It became clear to me […]
Fit to Live? Genotype-positive Phenotype-negative Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective – A BJSM blog series By Dr Christopher Speers At a recent Cardiac Conditions Clinic with Dr William Bradlow (Consultant Cardiologist) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, we reviewed a number of patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) and Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM). These consultations produced numerous patient-centered exercise-related discussions, but […]
FSEM Supports Concussion Guidelines for the Education Sector
The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM) is supporting new Concussion Guidelines for the Education Sector, produced by the Forum on Concussion in Sport and Physical Education in conjunction with the Sport and Recreational Alliance. The guidelines have been created in order to alleviate parental concerns around the safety of school sport and […]
The sedentary office: the need for more pragmatic guidelines
Letter to the Editor by: Dr Kelly Mackenzie, Specialty Registrar in Public Health / Academic Public Health Fellow In response to: JP Buckley & A Hedge et al (2015). The sedentary office: a growing case for change towards better health and productivity. We welcome the development of quantifiable targets relating to workplace sedentary. However, given the low quality […]
2015 Women’s Ice Hockey World Championships: An SEM trainee’s perspective
Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective – A BJSM blog series As part of my Sport and Exercise Medicine training I attended the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championships, Division II A, held in Dumfries this April. This was my first experience both of travelling with a national team and working with […]
BJSM Virtual Conference – Tendons
A monthly round-up of podcasts and articles By Steffan Griffin (@lifestylemedic) If you were hoping for further additions to the cluster series (previously on hamstring and shoulder injuries), fear not, here it is. We have simply changed the (now-monthly) series’ name from “cluster” to “virtual conference” to better reflect its provision of sleek and sexy […]
Football Medicine Strategies for Player Care Conference – Take home messages
Undergraduate perspective on Sports & Exercise Medicine – a BJSM blog series By Zachary Spargo (@ZachSpargo) After attending the Football Medicine Strategies (#FMS2015) Conference in London, I was inspired to put together a brief, yet hopefully informative overview of the streams I attended. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn, first hand, from some of the […]
TE(D)rrific talks (and a chance to win a prize)
The internet – not only does it provide countless videos of animals doing funny things, it also contains a rich stock of fantastic educational resources, meaning that you can learn from world-experts in a variety of fields from the comfort of your home – all for absolutely free. One organisation that is universally regarded as […]
#MakeYourDayHarder campaign launch: who, what, when, where, and why?
By Dr. Mike Evans What: on June 11 we are launching #MakeYourDayHarder campaign where people make their day harder (get off a stop early, park at the back of lot, take stairs, have a walking meeting, ride, walk to lunch, etc..) and then share +/- pic/video on social media (twitter, FB, instagram) with the #MakeYourDayHarder […]