What is the BJSM Global SEM Mentoring Program and why is it important? The BJSM Editorial Board is committed to advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) across sport and exercise medicine (SEM), and we have developed several initiatives in recent months to support this priority. The key barriers to achieving EDI in SEM are inequity […]
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Analysing technique to reduce tackle injury risk in rugby
Part of the BJSM’s #KnowledgeTranslation blog series Why is this topic important? From both a player welfare and team performance perspective, it is of utmost importance that ‘time-loss’ injuries be prevented. To prevent time-loss injuries, we need to identify the leading cause of these injuries and understand ‘what goes wrong’ during them. Understanding what goes […]
When Mario met two of the clinical leads at #Tokyo2020 – Part 2
A continuation of a chat between Mario Bizzini (BJSM Deputy Editor), and Prof Masaki Katayose and Mina Samukawa, who were both instrumental to the medical set-up at #Tokyo2020. For part 1, click here Covid-19 was obviously the “main companion” of these Games: did you had mandatory vaccinations? how did the controls/restrictions affect your daily work? […]
Why reinforcing good practice around head #BUMPs and re-thinking what makes us go ‘#OUCH’ could benefit player welfare in rugby
In 2008, research showed that 58% of players diagnosed with concussion after the game had remained on the field after their head injury event(1,2). Since then, we have seen a paradigm shift not only in terms of how head injuries are viewed across the rugby landscape, but also in terms of the processes put in […]
When Mario met two of the clinical leads at #Tokyo2020 – Part 1
A transcript of a chat between Mario Bizzini (PT & BJSM Deputy Editor), and Prof Masaki Katayose and Mina Samukawa, who were both instrumental to the medical set-up at #Tokyo2020. Prof. Masaki Katayose san: can you please introduce yourself, and also describe your function during the Tokyo Olympic Games (Masaki) I graduated Sapporo Medical University, […]
Return-to-running following childbirth: When the principles of Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health collide
Return-to-running following childbirth: When the principles of Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health collide In 2019 a BJSM blog highlighted the pelvic health considerations for return-to-running following childbirth and called for postpartum rehabilitation to align with return-to-sport injury models (Donnelly et al., 2019). We decided to answer its call for female-specific research and we wanted to […]
The medicinal properties of eccentric muscle contractions
Eccentric exercises (EEx) are well known in resistance training (RT) 1, injury prevention and rehabilitation and (chronic) disease management. Eccentric training in rehabilitation has long been a subject of controversy as EEx are prone to elicit strong muscle damage, subsequent soreness (DOMS) and impaired muscle functioning. Exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) and the hypothesis that EIMD […]
Injuries in functional fitness: An updated systematic review #Infographic
Functional fitness is a real exercise ‘trend’. This practice includes varied functional movements performed at high intensity, including Olympic lifting, calisthenics, strength/power, gymnastic movements, plyometric exercises, running, and rowing. Functional fitness, also known as CrossFit® has aroused the interest of researchers due to concerns over the potential injury risk. Thus, recently we observed a substantial […]
Pop-up vaccination centres at major sporting events – a valuable addition to the armoury, capturing a difficult demographic
“The Open” Golf – a successful example In the midst of this pandemic it has long been realised that vaccination was the only viable exit from ‘lockdown’ and/or interminable contact tracing and local shutdown.2 Indeed as well as preventing hospitalisation and death, double vaccination significantly reduces the chance of Long Covid in all age groups.3 […]
All my patella tendinopathy patients are back playing sport – what did I do to make them better?
Part of the BJSM’s Young Clinician Blog Series – to contribute please email bjsmblog@bmj.com Patella tendinopathy (PT) is one of the most debilitating/long term pathologies in running and jumping sports. (1, 2) Despite much controversy about the optimal treatment of tendinopathy, in my 3 years of practice I have finally got to the conclusion that […]