By Drs David Wyndham Lawrence, MD, MPH (@davidwlawrence1) and Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD (@RCarhartHarris) Sports medicine as a discipline is uniquely situated to safely explore, research, adopt, and implement novel and innovative strategies to meet the mental and physical demands of athletes and physically active populations. Significant advances have been made in sports science; including nutrition, training, […]
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A battle cry for change in the female running world: physicians are listening
Let’s start to discuss how we can reframe women’s running culture from the lens of the medical professional. By Emily Kraus, MD @emilykrausMD It was the day after elite runner Mary Cain bravely shared her riveting story of the unhealthy pressures and emotional abuse she experienced while training under Alberto Salazar at the Nike Oregon […]
Stepping up to better running form with the Running Physio – Tom Goom
What are the keys to good running form? Is there a magical number for step rate? Should we all be changing the way we run? On this week’s podcast, Tom Goom joins us to chat about gait retraining and its role in helping injured runners. Known to many in the SEM community as the […]
Of Mice and Men (and Women)
By Dr Nicky Keay @nickyKfitness “We need to treat individual women, not statistics” was the concluding sentence of an insightful BMJ Editorial 2019 [1] However, as Caroline Criado Perez points out in her recent, science prizing-winning book, ‘Invisible Women’, in many instances there are no scientific or medical statistics on women [2]. The efficacy of […]
Prioritising a biopsychosocial approach in sport and exercise medicine with Dr Louise Tulloh
Start with their story – Dr Louise Tulloh In 1977, Dr George Engel introduced the medical world to the biopsychosocial model to better understand disease. Expanding upon the reductionist biomedical model of disease that was popular at the time, Engel argued that psychological and social factors influence biological functioning and play a role in health […]
Exercise for the prevention and treatment of cognitive deficits in patients with dementia
By Michiel R.M. Twiss @physiotwiss Regular aerobic exercise (AE) can stop and even reverse brain atrophy. One year of moderate AE has been shown to increase hippocampal volume and improve memory in healthy older adults (1). Recent meta-analytic evidence has confirmed the effects of AE at augmenting hippocampal volume in the healthy late adulthood brain (2,3). Furthermore, […]
The importance of sleep: optimizing athletic recovery with Dr Cindy Chang
Sleep in elite sport, BJSM podcast, sleep disorder […]
Protecting the health of athletes: height categories in taekwondo
By Gal Dubnov-Raz, MD In most types of combat sports and martial arts, contestants compete within specific weight categories. In order to fit in the weight category, fighters commonly undergo intentional rapid weight loss before competitions. Body weight can indeed be an advantage in full-contact types of fights such as wrestling, judo, full-contact karate and […]
Kicking Groin pain ‘Into touch’
By Helen McElroy (@helenmcelroy) Physiotherapist and Northern Ireland Rep for ACPSEM Hip and Groin pain in kicking sports will be the focus of the 2019 ACPSEM Autumn Study day. This two-day event will be held in Riddell Hall, Belfast on 22/23rd November. We’ve pulled together experts from several kicking sports including international rugby and premiership […]
Parkrun: a 5K event making strides in boosting health
By Charles Hillman Recently celebrating its 15th anniversary since inception,[1] parkrun is on the increase on an international scale. Consisting of volunteer-led, free weekly timed 5km runs in local parks, it has the potential to have an impact on the global issue of inactivity. Since the British Royal College of General Practitioners began actively promoting […]