My 6-month SEM placements around the world I have always been a huge fan of sports and, as a teenager, was even one of the best ranked Belgian athletic runners. As a fifth-year medical student at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Brussels), I now aim to pursue a career in sport & exercise medicine (SEM). […]
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Cardiac concerns for college athletes in the wake of COVID-19 – building on last weeks BJSM Podcast
Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, how can we protect our athletes hearts? In the latest episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast (@TheAMSSM) produced in collaboration with the BJSM, host Dr. Devin McFadden (@ArmySportsDoc) is joined by internationally renowned Sports Cardiologists, Dr. Jonathon Drezner (@DreznerJon) and Dr. Michael Ackerman (@MJAckermanMDPhD). This podcast explores the pressing cardiac concerns […]
#RedPingüiNO a serious game for the prevention of COVID-19 transmission in sport
Tackling the spontaneous Facial Self-Touches (sFST) in sport The global pandemic due to COVID-19 has required restrictive measures. Social distancing, hand washing and avoiding touching your face are fundamental preventive measures established by the WHO. Spontaneous Facial Self-Touches (sFST) and sport Spontaneous Facial Self-Touches (sFST) are actions of contextual self-regulation carried out with limited awareness(1), […]
Professional football players can recover from coronavirus – and play in Cup Finals!
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 […]
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 […]