By Dr David White Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A twice-monthly Guest Blog) Participate in a new and interesting opportunity to help embed physical activity for health within medical undergraduate training. Drive this initiative forward by taking a few simple steps — outlined at the end of this blog. At the recent Faculty of Sport […]
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Vote on BJSM education content! What more do you want to learn?
BMJ and BJSM want to hear from you. The Editors have reviewed the last 5 years of education content to look for gaps and identify hot topic areas. We have narrowed it down to 5 key areas of interest. Now is your opportunity to vote on the subject matter that interests you the most. We […]
Advances in Sports Cardiology supplement: 17 terrific open access articles!
17 fantastic articles from leading experts comprise BJSM’s Advances in Sports Cardiology supplement. From: …Hot debates in US vs European approaches… Ventricular arrhythmias, stress, and adaptations associated with endurance sports athletes … To… Peripheral vascular structure and function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy… This supplement is packed with variety and quality. What’s more — all articles are open […]
Lance Armstrong: The Fall of a Hero
Guest blog by Professor Phillip Sparling Please see Professor Sparling’s related call to action. Here’s the link – a petition written to Lance Armstrong. I’m grieving. October 2012 will forever be imprinted in my memory as the month of damning revelations and the demise of Lance Armstrong. I’m not naïve about the use of drugs […]
Very honourable mentions from the BASEM issue of BJSM cover photo competition
By Dr Eleanor Tillett, Guest Editor BJSM Nov 2012 The response to photo competition was great. Photo submissions from the Olympics and Paralympics were considered for the front cover issue of this year’s BASEM edition of the BJSM. Our winner was Ian McCurdie’s action shot from the BMX. However, we also want to give special mention […]
Modern Day Gladiators – A day at the Colosseum and thoughts of Super 15 at Kings Park.
Guest Blog by SASMA President – Dr Glen Hagemann Two weeks ago I attended the FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine in Rome. I particularly enjoyed visiting the Colosseum and learning about the Roman gladiators, whose similarity to modern professional rugby players became more and more evident the longer I spent there! The Colosseum had […]
Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Cardiac Screening: A trainee perspective
By Dr. Khine Win Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A twice-monthly Guest Blog) I recently had the honour of assisting with cardiac screening in a dance company and an academy football team. I came across many concerned parents and athletes. Some refused to participate in screening tests. Some even attempted to hide their […]
Hamstring injury mini-symposium (BJSM papers that will help you manage hamstring injuries).
Bruce Hamilton’s article (Hamstring muscle strain injuries: what can we learn from history? 2012;46: 900-903) is receiving a lot of attention. Current in this month’s BJSM print edition, >6,000 people have already downloaded and digested it (free full text!). This October issue has been shaped by the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, one of BJSM’s 8 […]
BJSM podcasts speak for themselves – 6,738 downloads in the last 30 days!
Are you an app developer? If you want to create the BJSM podcast app please ‘call me maybe’. Granted BJSM podcasts are marginally less popular than Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit (300 million views) but I am optimistic that sports medicine will truimph over time. Right now we are only 300 million views behind (with rounding). […]
Exercise as a medicine for both health professionals and patients!
By Ann Gates (@exerciseworks) This blog is an excerpt from: www.exercise-works.org blog on exercise as a medicine label Generic name: Regular, daily exercise Uses: For the prevention and treatment of most non communicable diseases such as: heart disease, cancer, hypertension, stroke, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, mental health problems, parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma, chronic obstructive airways disease, musculoskeletal […]