Hope for resuming a normal life after COVID-19 On June 17, professional players of the Juventus Football Club played the Italian Cup final, and subsequently other Italian teams started playing in League A again. In particular, one of them had recovered from COVID-19 just one month earlier, after testing positive on four different occasions (the […]
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Project Restart and COVID-19 – how do we reduce risk for ethnic minority athletes?
Preliminary evidence has raised concerns regarding the disproportionate risk of adverse COVID-19 outcomes among people of ethnic minority groups. By proactively considering risk, we can protect those engaging in football or indeed any sport at any level. The challenge is implementation for both social players and for those who play football as their occupation. As […]
Why should sport psychology practitioners attend sports medicine conferences?
Reflections on Isokinetic Medical Group Conference Football Medicine Outcomes – Are we winning? from a trainee sport and exercise psychologist. As a sport and exercise psychology graduate and postgraduate, I didn’t think an international medical conference would be a place I’d find myself the summer after completing my MSc! Leading up to submitting my thesis […]
Strength and Conditioning in Golf – building on BJSM’s latest podcast
Driving home the key messages In this latest BJSM podcast, Dr Will Wynter Bee discusses strength and conditioning (S&C) in golf with the Head of Strength and Conditioning for the PGA European Tour, Dan Coughlan. They discuss exactly how S&C can improve golf performance. How can we reduce injury risk whilst maximising club head speed? […]
How the best golfers in the world are using Strength & Conditioning to elevate their performance
The drive for distance The recent body transformation of Bryson DeChambeau has taken a large amount of media focus in recent months. Is there a benefit to increasing your size and muscle mass? Will it help my golf game? Will I hit it further? Will it lead to injury? Will it prevent injury? These are […]
Which treatment is most effective for Achilles tendinopathy? A new way of finding out!
An insight into a living systematic review and meta-analysis, as part of the BJSM’s new #KnowledgeTranslation blog series In our blog, we will explain why and how we did our study, and what makes it different from previous systematic reviews on treatments for Achilles tendinopathy. This large project took more than two years to complete […]
Healthy return to performance in elite athletes and para-athletes after the COVID-19 lockdown
A proposal to guide in “terra incognita” How can elite athletes and para-athletes (hereafter referred as “athletes”) manage the return to performance by minimizing injury risk after this lockdown period due to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic? We assume that, beyond the health-related clinical consequences of COVID-19 and/or lockdown – including COVID-19-related risk of cardiopulmonary […]
Socially distanced rehabilitation supported by technology: a potential new normal for post-ITU deconditioning?
One way to get patients back on their feet after COVID19 infection Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically affected global society and it is unclear when its effects will subside. There have been over 500,000 deaths and 13.5 million documented infections as of the 15th July. The UK has seen over 45,000 deaths and over 291,000 […]
Are we allowing injured athletes enough time to biologically recover from injury?
Building on last week’s podcast about biological healing with Professor Erik Witvrouw Are injury recurrences due to a return to sport prior to adequate biological healing? Can we accurately measure stages healing with imaging or blood tests? On this BJSM podcast, Dr Liam West discusses the importance of respecting biological healing in musculoskeletal injuries with […]
Community physical activity interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: where there’s a will, there’s a way!
The Route to Moving The city of Bogotá in Colombia officially entered into a strict quarantine on 25 March 2020 because of the new coronavirus, COVID-19. The number of deaths from COVID-19 was much lower than predicted and some restrictions were relaxed. However, on 10 July 2020, the decision was taken to reimpose strict quarantines […]