By Dr. Domhnall MacAuley Snow. Hardly surprising. Its part of Canadian life. But, as a sports med doc arriving in Ottawa, what struck me most was the number of people walking, skating and jogging. It may have been minus 25, before wind chill, but that didn’t seem to be a deterrent. There were hundreds of skaters on […]
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Vote now (win prizes)! What’s the best BJSM cover of 2013?
Welcome to the final, sudden death round of the BJSM cover competition. We have tallied the votes from our four preliminary rounds and the results are in (below)! Voters in this round have a chance to win one of two of the world’s leading sports medicine books. Win 1 of 2 of these fantastic books: […]
Bizarre breaking news: Government finally releases a strategy for childhood physical activity using it as punishment. Early April fool, ignorant Olympic legacy or plain clueless?
By Richard Weiler, Sam Allardyce, Greg Whyte, Emmanuel Stamatakis This week the UK government Department of Education has released a new strategy to improve school discipline, including the alarming strategy that physical activity should be used as punishment, recommended (on page 8) as running laps around school playing fields (READ FULL STRATEGY HERE). Another defining moment […]
Employment opportunity: UC AIS Centenary Professor, Chair of Clinical Research. Joint appointment between the University of Canberra and the Australian Institute of Sport
Academic Level E: UC AIS Centenary Professor, Chair of Clinical Research. Joint appointment between the University of Canberra and the Australian Institute of Sport Salary Range: An attractive salary package will be negotiated pro rata plus super This is a 5 year fixed-term, full time position Vacancy Reference No: TBC This exciting role is employed […]
Coaches and doctors need to recognise when they are vulnerable to “win or else” pressure.
By Drs. Lynley Anderson and Brad Partridge John Orchard’s recent blog ‘On Andre Villas-Boas, the unreasonable pressure on coaches/managers, and why player health should be in clinician’s hands’, raises some interesting points for debate. Dr Orchard laments that decisions regarding return to play following concussion were made by a coach who is ‘forced by the nature of the […]
Increase in tennis injuries at the Australian Open – media hype or evidence based
By tennis physician, Dr Babette Pluim (@DocPluim) It was an exciting Australian Open this year, with magnificent tennis, thrilling matches and sizzling heat. The end was a bit unexpected, almost an anti-climax, with Stanislaw Wawrinka seizing the title over an injured Nadal – the first man since 2009 to win a Grand Slam outside the […]
Seeing patients today? There is one life saving intervention you can prescribe- it’s called daily exercise! via @exerciseworks
@exerciseworks guest blog series on physical activity and cardiovascular health: Part 1 Daily life in the 21st century, often limits our health outcomes and aspirations. Our world: whatever nation we are part of, and the communities in which we live, together with our loved ones, have stopped moving at the levels of physical activity consistent […]
Achilles Tendinopathy: is foot strike important?
By John Foster MCSP, MACPSM, Dip Phys, PGDip H. Sci. Excessive loading of the Achilles Tendon (AT) is the main pathological stimulus for tendon degeneration [1]. A continuum model of reactive tendinopathy, tendon dysrepair and degenerative tendinopathy has been proposed [2] (You can listen to with model co-author, BJSM Deputy Editor by clicking here). Note that there […]
Australian Open – Hot Tennis. To play or not to play? That is the question!
By tennis physician, Dr Babette Pluim (@DocPluim) The scorching Australian Open has stirred up debate as to how safe it is to play tennis under extreme conditions. Some claim that it is part of the game, just like wind, rain, and playing late at night and that you just have to deal with it. Prepare, […]
The ECOSEP/ Bauerfeind Traveling Fellowship Program 2014: Apply until February 28th!
From many highly qualified applicants from different countries throughout Europe, ECOSEP: The European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians and their hosts from the leading European Sports Medicine Centres will select the Travelling Fellow on the basis of excellence in their personal and professional capabilities. The Travelling Fellow will represent her or his own country and showing leadership skills, […]