Guest Blog By Nick Smallwood Post script August 11th, 2012 – Congratulations @Mo_Farah for 5K, 10K double – delighted the world! Mo Farah knows the fine line between success and failure. At the World Athletics Championships last summer, he missed out on 10,000m gold by a quarter of a second. A few days later, he […]
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Injury prevention in high level snowboard: A need to return to first principles?
Guest blog by @CarolineFinch In the recent BJSM blog Is high level snowboard too dangerous to allow your children to participate? Prof Engebretsen raises an important question, namely how to prevent injuries in a sport where pushing the extremes of physical performance in challenging and harsh environments is both an individual athlete and sporting organisation goal.[1] Most recent advances in […]
Sports injuries are freak accidents – or are they?
Guest Blog by @CarolineFinch Cross Fertilising ‘Injury Prevention’ journal (IP) and BJSM Compared to many other health issues, it seems that it is not hard to get media stories about sports injury into our daily newspapers. What seems to be hard, is the coupling of such stories with positive injury prevention messages. An interesting paper in the February […]
Call to action for World Physical Activity Day 6th April 2012: Help patients get active!
Guest blog by Ann Gates (@exerciseworks) Call to action for ALL heath professionals: Exercise direction to patients is emerging as an essential clinical skill in the prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic lifestyle diseases. Dr Bob Sallis MD has long advocated that regular exercise is a medical ‘vital sign’ in assessing […]
New series on Career Development: Considering a Master’s of Physiotherapy?
BJSM is will highlight various career options in a series of blogs. The first in this series is about the University of Western Australia but we hope that principles from various blogs apply broadly to those considering further education. UWA Master of Manual Therapy: More job satisfaction for Physiotherapists Modern physiotherapy has many underlying […]
From AP – FIFA extends research into cardiac arrest cases
FIFA extends research into cardiac arrest cases UPDATED MAR 26, 2012 9:12 AM ET ZURICH (AP) FIFA is extending research into cardiac arrest cases involving footballers to learn about the condition which caused Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba to collapse during a match. FIFA’s chief medical officer, Jiri Dvorak, said Monday that the project will be advanced […]
Born to run or shoes are made for running? Adding science to the strident debate.
Guest blog by George Murley There is an increasingly strident debate on the use of minimalist/barefoot versus traditional sports footwear in running, and there appear to be advocates for both sides who believe there is no need for a rational discussion. The debate appears to have escalated following publications by Richards and colleagues (2008) ‘Is […]
Persistent dehydration MYTHS: Prof Tim Noakes comments on BJSM’s reader poll
BJSM reader poll results By Tim Noakes Only 12% of the BJSM readers who answered the poll were correct – this speaks to the power of the prevailing dogma and marketing messages. Readers have clearly been influenced by the “Science of Hydration.” This mythical concept developed by the sports drink industry during the late 1980s […]
Shining a light on tendinopathy: expensive treatments vs established therapies
By Dr. Bert Fields As a busy sports medicine physician I see an increasing number of patients pursuing unproven and often expensive treatments before they have tried established therapies with stronger evidence. One example of this is a recent patient who saw advertising for a cold laser that they purchased from an internet site. […]
On ‘BUCS-ing’ and Boxing – A SEM Trainee Perspective By Dr Stan Baltsezak
By Dr Stan Baltsezak The UK trainee perspective (The BJSM blog features the trainee perspective every two weeks)* February, March and April are the months when British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) championships take place. Students from all over the UK compete in numerous contact and non-contact sports. The Championships and Games provide a unique opportunity […]