Reflections on a new way of reaching consensus in an age without travel Having secured funding and planned a June 2020 face-to-face consensus meeting, where global concussion and disability sports experts would travel to the United Kingdom, COVID-19 provided a “curveball”! Typically, consensus process includes establishing an expert group, conducting preparatory/planning work, and reaching consensus […]
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Are you communicating with your athletes/patients in a way that optimises their performance? Learn top tips from an expert in the field!
How can we most effectively communicate with our athletes to improve their immediate performance and promote long term retention? The language we use dominates how we interact and communicate with each other. The language we use with athletes in order to get optimum performance has been a topic of high interest in recent years. We […]
Community sport is back: here’s how to safely power up in a COVID-19 environment
Sport delivers more than just benefits to our physical health. With COVID-19 having decimated any notion of ‘normality’ within local communities, the contribution of sport to community identity is potentially more important than ever, providing a focal point for community engagement and sense of normality. With the SARS-CoV-2 virus still active in many part of […]
Medical Care and first aid: a framework for organised non-elite sport during the COVID-19 pandemic
Will you be providing first-aid care to athletes in a non-elite setting? This guidance (in pdf format at the end of the document) defines and rationalises emergency and first aid care during the current time of heightened awareness of contracting and transmitting COVID-19. This follows on from an elite sport framework which uses Public Health England […]
Sport and Exercise Medicine’s contribution to ‘social prescribing and lifestyle medicine’, more than just anecdotal support?
BJSM readers will be familiar with the concept of ‘Social Prescribing’, and the rapid pace at which it is being advocated across the world. As a journal, it has been inspiring and insightful to see some of the core concepts and aspects of social prescribing and lifestyle medicine making the jump from ‘expert opinion and […]
Awkward with ankles? Let this conversation around the role of #BigData in ankle injuries get you up to speed!
Not one of the 4000 that tuned in to our podcast on ankle injuries last week? We’d suggest squeezing it into your commute! Dr Mackenzie Herzog (@MackenzieHerzog) has a PhD in Sports Injury and Orthopaedic Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently a Lead Epidemiologist on the Injury Surveillance […]
BJSM Blogs 2.0. Evolution, not Revolution
As our readers and followers will know, we at BJSM have tried to make the ‘journal’ much more than just that, and instead more of a community. At the heart of this approach has been a focus on open access resources such as podcasts, blogs and social media channels, that accompany our more traditional and […]
Project restart: Is it time to factor ethnicity into the return to sport protocols?
By Dr Omar Naji and Dr Irfan Ahmed As the U.K prepares to “unlock” for business, the return of professionalised sport and the English Premier League (EPL) is seen as a watershed moment. It marks the start of a “new normal”, both in terms of how professionalised sport will need to operate financially and how […]
Pitch side emergency care & personal protective equipment: a framework for elite sport during the COVID-19 pandemic: Part 2 of 3
Rationale Rightful concern is raised when returning the player population to training and competition in the context of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection; given that the infection is still relatively novel, much of the emerging evidence is difficult to contextualise in our player Adverse cardiac and respiratory outcomes have been acknowledged in COVID-19 infection. The […]
Pitch side emergency care and personal protective equipment: a framework for elite sport during the COVID-19 pandemic Part 3 of 3
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