How understanding female-based sporting injuries, rehabilitation and research using front-line medical imaging can help propel women’s football even further Keywords: #SportsMedicine #Football #DiagnosticImaging By Dr. Eddie Craghill, Women’s Team Support Doctor at Manchester United Women’s football has been growing in popularity in the UK over the past decade. It is exciting to see women’s football […]
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Individually customized skis could reduce the risk of ACL injury
Keywords: alpine skiing, ACL-injury, ski geometry, standing height Authors: Irving Scher, Martin Burtscher and Gerhard Ruedl Do ski geometry parameters impact ACL injury risk in alpine skiing? We will explain in this blog skier characteristics and alpine (downhill) ski equipment factors associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in alpine skiing. Our study (recently published […]
Gender bias in sports medicine
Keywords: gender bias, sports medicine physician, sexual harassment This blog provides highlights of a recent paper regarding gender bias in sports medicine (1). Recently, physician researchers from Japan and the United States worked together to gain a better understanding of gender bias in sports medicine. Similar to previous findings, it was noted that there […]
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing for a tailored exercise prescription
Keywords: CPET, exercise, training, cardiovascular diseases, rehabilitation Authors: Prof. Flavio D’Ascenzi* and Prof. Dominique Hansen^ *Department of Medical Biotechnologies, Division of Cardiology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy ^ Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium This blog provides highlights of a recent paper regarding the use of cardiopulmonary exercise tests in tailored exercise prescription (1). Why […]
Football for all? Take-home messages on the women’s game from the Isokinetic 2022 Lyon conference
Keywords: female athlete, conference, sports medicine Three years and four virtual summits after the last Isokinetic Football Medicine conference in London (2019), participants convened in person for this year’s conference focusing on The Player’s Voice. Held over 3 days, it featured numerous talks and debates among sport scientists, coaches, physiotherapists, doctors, and athletes. […]
Wearable Sensor Technology: A Promising Tool for Metabolic Monitoring in Sport
Wearable sensor technologies for metabolic monitoring in sport – What do they measure? And what are the benefits for sport performance? Wearable sensor technologies offer the possibility to measure a wide range of analytes in various body-fluids. Monitoring metabolic processes through analytes (e.g., lactate, glucose, etc.) could provide critical information about the condition of athletes […]
Progressive high-load strengthening exercise for ’hypermobile shoulders’ – controversial or best practice?
Patients with ’hypermobile shoulders’ can safely improve shoulder function and physical symptoms with high load exercise Why is this study important? Joint hypermobility is defined as the ability to move the joints beyond the normal range of motion. Joint hypermobility may be advantageous in activities and sports where high flexibility is required. However, it may […]
Physiotherapist facilitation of return to sport, where return to sport is not indicated.
When to stand down injured athletes, and when to let them push through. Less than 48 hours before boarding our flight to Iceland for the 2020 Ice Hockey World Cup, a worst-case scenario occurred for New Zealand’s women’s ice hockey team. A star player went down on the ice and felt the pop as her […]
Does the relative timing of return-to-activity stages after sports-related concussion influence return to sport time?
Why is this study important? In the not so distant past, we treated athletes with concussion by having them rest as much as possible for as long as necessary. Over the past 10 years, it has become increasingly clear that this was misguided. Athletes who start exercising about 48 hours after their concussion seem to do […]
Under-representation of women in research informing concussion consensus and position statements #KnowledgeTranslationBlog
In this blog, we will explain how and why we published our paper about female athletes’ under-representation in concussion research that informs consensus and position statements. Our study (recently published in BJSM) was a collaboration between the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), the University of Georgia, and the University of Michigan. Why is this […]