Groin Pain: Into the Bermuda Triangle Part 3

Diagnosing, managing & rehabilitating injuries in the Bermuda Triangle Keywords: Groin Pain; Inguinal; Rehabilitation Introduction This is the penultimate Blog in a series dealing with Groin Pain.  Part 1, on Adductor Related Groin Pain (ARGP) and Part 2, Iliopsoas Related Groin Pain (IRGP), can be found here: Part 1; Part 2.  This part deals with […]

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Can we predict who will respond positively to a physical activity intervention? A tool to enable personalisation of interventions

Authors Alex V Rowlands and Tom Yates It can be challenging to increase physical activity, particularly in people living with chronic disease. Our recent study aimed to develop methods that can enhance intervention efficacy by enabling better personalisation and targeting of interventions. Why is this study important? When people’s free-living physical activity is already placing them under […]

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Unequal impacts of universal health policies: a systems-oriented view of physical activity levels in response to COVID-19 ‘lockdowns’

Authors Tessa Strain, Miriam Alvarado, Flora Jackson, Leandro Garcia, Michael P Kelly, and Paul Kelly Purpose of this blog The COVID-19 pandemic saw whole population health protection policies, such as containment strategies or vaccine roll-outs, implemented in many countries at an unprecedented scale. Sometimes these policies were enshrined in law, sometimes they were public health […]

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Steady and Straight: UK consensus statement on physical activity and exercise for osteoporosis.

Osteoporotic fractures may affect one woman in two and one man in five, potentially causing pain, disability, loss of independence and increased mortality. Exercise may benefit risk of osteoporotic fracture by increasing muscle and bone strength and reducing falls risk. However, many health professionals are unsure of what exercise to recommend and concerned about potential […]

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Update: Sport Medicine Diagnostic Coding System Version 2.5

An important update for the sport medicine community In March of 2020, a new consensus version of the Sport Medicine Diagnostic Coding System (SMDCS) version 2 was published, along with supplementary material, at https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/7/397l . The Orchard Sorts Injury and Illness Classification System (OSIICS) was also published, and has since been updated here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/06/16/bjsports-2022-105828. The SMDCS has now […]

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The error of easy running in terms of stroke volume response to exercise, or why Peter Coe was right

Author: Sergey Roussakow, MD, PhD (0000-0002-2548-895X) This blog reconsiders the traditional point of view about the training effect and physiological mechanisms of easy running and low heart rate training. The Miracle of Long Slow Distance If you ask a novice runner what the benefits of long slow distance running (LSD) (also known as low-heart rate […]

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Resistance exercise for tendinopathy: How heavy, how much and how often?

Keywords:  tendinopathy, exercise therapy, resistance exercise dose In this blog post we will summarise our recent study addressing what dose of resistance exercise is best for treating tendinopathy. This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) as part of a large literature-based project on exercise therapy for the treatment of tendinopathy. […]

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Groin Pain: Into the Bermuda Triangle Part 2

Diagnosing, managing & rehabilitating injuries in the Bermuda Triangle Keywords: Groin Pain; Iliopsoas; Rehabilitation Introduction Iliopsoas related groin pain (IRGP), , is the second most common injury in the groin area, after adductor related groin pain (ARGP)(1), (2) & (3).  This blog is the second in a series discussing some of the complexities of diagnosing, […]

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The state of play on relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs)

Long-term low energy availability leads to adaptive changes throughout the body resulting in the clinical outcomes of REDs This blog is in light of recently published updated International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) in BJSM. What’s in a name change? Making “s” lower case is helpful as relative energy deficiency […]

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