Op donderdag 1 en vrijdag 2 december 2011 organiseert de Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde (VSG) voor de zevende keer het toonaangevende Sportmedisch Wetenschappelijk Jaarcongres. Het congres biedt een multidisciplinaire ontmoetingsplaats waar onderzoekers en zorgverleners elkaar ontmoeten. Nieuw is de bijzondere locatie die door de VSG is geselecteerd: de Efteling in Kaatsheuvel. Dit is een park met […]
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Vitamin D: The stuff of Super-heroes – Guest blog by Dr. Ade Adejuwon
Elite athletes are revered for their ability to repetitively perform feats that push the human body to its physical and physiological limits. In the eyes of many they are superhuman. If we consider fictional superheroes many demonstrate the same abilities, albeit exaggerated, that we admire in athletes such as strength, speed and agility. Sports scientists […]
Authoritative resource for sudden cardiac death – finally! Guest blog by Jon Drezner
Sudden Death in Young Adults (JACC 2011, 58:12), has a wealth of information and will be an article to reference for a long time. Finally a large, systematic incidence and etiology study on sudden death in young adults with sound methodology, a defined population (military), mandatory reporting, and post-mortem protocols. The authors openly question the […]
When is ultrasound most helpful for sports medicine clinicians? – BJSM podcast
As part of BJSM’s ongoing interest in ultrasound (US) use in sports medicine, our September 5th podcast addresses key questions such as, When is ultrasound most helpful for sports medicine clinicians? AMSSM’s inspirational Kim Harmon (Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Washington, US) and the erudite Sean Martin (Clinical Faculty at […]
Mechanotherapy paper passes 90,000 downloads – did you miss it?
Historical note: This blog was first published in 2011 when the paper had 5,000 views. The numbers have been updated in April 2016. OK – I begin with a ‘competing interest’ statement – I’m blogging about a paper I coauthored. But, I think it is my first such post since we started blogging seriously at […]
The 28th International Jerusalem Symposium on Sports Medicine – 2 more weeks to submit abstracts!
For more information go to: http://sport.doctorsonly.co.il/ […]
Guest Blog by Professor Timothy Noakes – A comment on ‘Good Calories, Bad Calories’ and ‘Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It’
I have been reading Gary Taubes‘ books on nutrition and health – Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It. It is clear to me now that carbohydrate intake is the factor driving the obesity/diabetes/ heart disease/ metabolic syndrome epidemic globally. Taubes explains how this was known up […]
Dr Lynley Anderson’s response to: Team Doctor….how far is too far?
Guest blog by Dr Lynley Anderson In the recent BJSM blog post, Team Doctor…how far is too far?, Dr James Thing raised the issue of clinical professional boundaries in the provision of sports health care; he is ideally placed to comment as both a team doctor and GP. Determining the limits of what a team […]
We can all relax about the ‘8 glasses of water a day’ myth – another example of ‘selling sickness’
The subheading for Margaret McCartney’s recent BMJ commentary reads ‘Medical marketing’. Should that be a topic in health professionals’ curriculum now? Anatomy, Physiology, Marketing, Biochemistry? It would make sense to have a subject to balance Pharmacology. It could be called Unpharmacology. The former covers the legitimate benefits of appropriate prescription of effective medication for clinical […]
Now the Wall Street Journal chimes in on athlete’s heart
Today a short link to the Wall Street Journal. [this link is to a free, shorter version of the paper – subscription version highlighted below]. BJSM Senior Associate Editor Jon Drezner is quoted liberally – all good stuff for sports medicine and for his University of Washington. Sports cardiology is a hot topic when it […]