@exerciseworks guest blog series on physical activity and cardiovascular health: Part 2 Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Reduction of heart disease risk in patients is significantly linked to modifiable factors (such as tobacco use, poor diet, physical inactivity, obesity, alcohol use) or factors that can be changed […]
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The Paleo diet – what’s in it for you?
By Dr John Orchard, @DrJohnOrchard Dr J, takes a look at the hottest diet in the world right now. Just for a change, this Dr J column is written about a topic which I am not an expert on. Why change a good formula? (In fact you can take it as a very good rule […]
BASEM Spring Conference 2014 – Register now!
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Ramy Ashour, an interview with the squash superstar
This interview was originally published in the Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal and is reproduced with the kind permission of Aspetar – Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital. – Interview by Cristiano Eirale, Qatar Every sport has its star. In squash, it’s Ramy Ashour. It’s not that he has the highest point average in the history of […]
Move Now, never mind the weather
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 […]
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 […]