The authors respond to Dr van Rensburg’s letter published in the blog post below. Letter from Dr. Hislop: Dear Christa, The 2 articles were written as a Head to Head– (see link to papers on how to test for compartment syndrome). Dr Hutchinson and I contrast our approaches to the case of the patient with […]
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Letter to the editor: Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome articles – clarification needed!
September 19, 2011 The Editor British Journal of Sports Medicine Dear Prof Khan Re: Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome articles I was very excited to receive the September issue of your journal and observe that there were a number of articles on chronic exertional compartment syndrome. As Hutchinson quite rightly states in Chronic exertional compartment syndrome: “key […]
Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde (VSG) Sportmedisch Wetenschappelijk Jaarcongres
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 […]
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 […]