The packs of runners visible on many urban landscapes are a clear sign that distance road race season is upon us. As professional and amateur competitors get ready for their big events, lots of advice and suggestions are bouncing around the Internet. One of the most common misconceptions is that athletes should over-hydrate before races […]
Category: General
Can Exercise Advice be ‘Made to Stick’?
The Sports Physiotherapist website opens up the topic of evidence-based exercise prescription – we wouldn’t examine the knee by just starting anywhere through the process and randomly poking parts – we use the evidence to examine the knee in a logical way! If the most important therapy is exercise (Church 2009) why do only few […]
New BJSM Warm up! Tendinopathy: no longer a ‘one size fits all’ diagnosis
Lots of exciting new tendon research presented in the April 2011 issue of BJSM (view online here!). As an introductory taste, here’s an excerpt of the Warm up by Jill Cook: Tendinopathy: no longer a ‘one size fits all’ diagnosis Tendon research has come a long way. So far, in fact, that 120 tendon-interested clinicians […]
‘Theft of wellness’ or preventive medicine?
As clinicians we are always challenged to ‘primum non nocere’ – first of all do no harm. Unfortunately, this is not so easy – as those who have died as a results of iatrogenesis know only too well. Ray Moynihan has been at the forefront of ‘critical self-reflection’ in our professions and he was in […]
What the BJSM editors look for in a paper – clinical relevance
BJSM is transparent about its peer-review process. We receive 1000 papers a year and can only publish about 10% of them. So 60% of papers are returned to authors after the editorial team has reviewed them. Who’s the editorial team? It’s Karim Khan, Babette Pluim and Jill Cook. So these are called ‘rejected without external […]
No Oscar for BJSM videos but 1.3 million page views isn’t bad!
Just a short blog post today to alert you to lots of great free material on the home page. We didn’t get an Oscar for the ‘Mark Hutchinson’ physical exam videos but nomination can’t be far off. Learn to examine the knee, shoulder, hip/groin in this practical series. It’s free! And in the blizzard of […]
Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre website — Great online resource
The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre, located at the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences has a diverse team of experts from the fields of exercise medicine, ortheopedics, epidemiology, biostatistics, and physiotherapy. Its led by professors Lars Engebretsen and Roald Bahr who are both renowned for their experience with national team and Olympic sports medicine. Cutting-edge researchers and advocates for […]
Patellofemoral pain syndrome? Consider orthoses or more comfortable shoes!
In the current issue of BJSM, Barton, Menz, and Crossley’s report on The immediate effects of foot orthoses on functional performance in individuals with patellofemoral pain syndrome. Their paper supports the beneficial effects of prefabricated orthoses. Orthoses “provide immediate improvements in functional performance, and these improvements are associated with a more pronated foot type and […]
Guest Blog – Wayne Hall weighs in on Genomic Screening
Professor Wayne Hall commented on the ‘modest’ impacts of population genomic screening in October last year in the prestigious PLoS journal (open access, yeah!!) After reading last Friday’s BJSM blog relating to Prof Tim Caulfield’s ‘Deflating the Genomics Bubble’ paper in Science,’ Prof Hall provided this first-hand background story to his PLoS paper: The aim […]
Preventing sports injuries – here are success strategies! Guest blog Professor Caroline Finch –
In a universal quest to ensure that sports injury prevention efforts actually do work because athletes and other participants actually do what we recommend they do, there have been increasing calls for more attention towards understanding the drivers of sports injury prevention from a behavioural perspective. It is concerning, therefore, that the sports injury research […]