By Ann B. Gates @exerciseworks How can the sports and exercise medicine community support Ukrainian health care students to continue their studies and graduate? When societal and educational democracy is threatened- who acts? A peaceful, democratic country, Ukraine, was invaded by Russia on 24th February 2022[1]. What followed has been a humanitarian and societal catastrophe […]
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Can better communication between medical staff and the coach reduce injuries? Let’s explore the options.
Avoiding injuries ensures high player availability and allows coaches to have the best squad possible available for training and to select their best squad for matches. In the UEFA Champions League (UCL), the unavailability of players to compete in matches due to injury averages 14% but varies between 5% and 20%. Lower injury rates have […]
Mobile App Review for Doping-IAT: A Programme for Testing Implicit Attitude towards Doping
NAME OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION: Doping-IAT (accessible here: http://anti-doping.derwinchan.com/implicitassociationtest.html) CATEGORY OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION: Sport PLATFORM: Android, iOS, Windows, macOS. COST: Free ABOUT THE APP: Doping-IAT is a mobile application that evaluates athletes’ implicit attitude towards doping. This implicit measure aligns with the protocol of the Doping-IAT computer test that Chan and co-workers[1] developed and […]
Shoulder Instability – A Physiotherapist as the Patient
Part of the BJSM’s Young Clinician Blog Series Shoulder injuries. A dread for many physiotherapists and a delight for a few of us less sane. A person with a shoulder injury often presents with a lot of complexity – this is a challenge I tend to relish. What follows is a story of my battle […]
Preparation and mitigation measures for exercising in the heat: what’s done by elite athletes and what’s working?
In our blog, we will explain how elite marathon runners and race-walkers coped with the hot and humid ambient conditions during the 2019 World Athletic Championship. More details are available in two recent open-access manuscripts.[1,2] Why is this study important? Numerous international events are held in the summer, in hot and/or humid ambient conditions. While […]
How to osteoFIGHT bone stress injuries
Application of the 6 principles of training to build ‘fitter bones’ – Part of the BJSM’s Young Clinician blog series Running alone is not a great bone-strengthening activity, partly due to the high occurrence of low energy availability in distance runners, but also because bone cells become “deaf” to repetitive loading.1 3 8 It only takes […]
Can Artificial Intelligence help us prevent and manage musculoskeletal injuries?
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and methods have attracted considerable attention in the information industry and in society as a whole, due to the large amount of data and the imminent need to transform this data into useful knowledge and practical solutions. However, the effective use of data in some areas is still under development, as […]
Reducing hamstring injury burden and re-injury rates: the development and application of BAMIC
Why develop a new muscle injury classification? The British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC) was developed in 2014 as part of a hamstring strategy.[1] An internal report in our elite track and field squad established that hamstring injury was the leading cause of missed time from training and competition. The muscle injury grading systems available […]
Starting a consult with cultural safety: Adopting a Tikanga Māori inspired approach to practice
How a quick and easy greeting can be used to enhance cultural safety in clinical practice. Part of the BJSM’s ‘Young clinician blog series’. “Kia ora. Just before beginning, I would like to introduce myself if that’s okay? My name is Callum Law and I’m 25 years old, Pākehā (white), and currently studying towards my […]
Can we predict heat stroke during exercise?
In this blog we will explain how we used two concepts to develop an exertional heat stroke prediction tool. Our study (recently published in BJSM) took more than two years to complete and was collaboration between three U.S. Army organizations: U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), U.S. Army Medical and Material Development Agency […]