By Steffan A Griffin, Amy E Mendham, Peter Krustrup, Andrew Murray, Nick Peirce, Joanne Larkin, Rod Jaques, Charlotte Cowie, Keith A Stokes, Simon PT Kemp Team sport has been widely hailed as a potential morale-booster for the wider society in the current COVID-19 climate (in both a spectating and participating capacity). However, team sport […]
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FAI and giving patients confidence in telehealth, Chad Cook gives us the inside track. Episode #432
BJSM Friday Podcast #432 Associate Editor Paul Blazey (T: @blazey85) talks with Professor Chad Cook from Duke University (North Carolina, USA). Chad is a Professor in the Orthopaedic Surgery Division of Physical Therapy, with an interest in the effective diagnosis, intervention, and outcomes assessment of conservative and surgical treatment of orthopedic-related conditions. Today we focus […]
Should people wear a face mask during exercise: What should clinicians advise?
Many community-based measures to control the spread of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) are implemented, including social distancing, hand hygiene and wearing non-medical face masks in public areas. This recommendation is based on the concept of ‘source control’ to prevent droplets produced by the person wearing the mask from spreading to other people or onto […]
COVID-19 in Singapore: a sports physician at the frontlines
By Dr Mingchang Wang I stood beside my patient in my sweat-soaked personal protective equipment (PPE). It was a sweltering 35 degrees Celsius in the shade and he was attempting to do a standing gastrocnemius stretch while I supervised him. “Hold for 20 seconds, do three sets each leg”, I told him. He nodded […]
Exercise Prescription During a Pandemic: keeping active with Dr. Jordan Metzl. Episode #431
BJSM Friday Podcast #426 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we practice medicine and live our daily lives. Things we traditionally have taken for granted now pose major challenges, and among those is the challenge of remaining active. On this episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast (T: @TheAMSSM) host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD is […]
Consider the chaos: creating ecological validity in the Return to Sport process
By Dr Matt Taberner @MattTaberner & Dr Daniel Cohen @danielcohen1971 From the spectators who view from afar, to the backroom staff who work on the front-line, the beauty of sport is its unpredictability. Whether it is football played on the lush pitches of the English Premier League (EPL) or basketball on the gleaming courts of […]
Anxiety and Insomnia in Athletes during the era of COVID 19: Part 2– solutions and suggestions
By Dr. Meeta Singh, MD @athletesleepmd1 and Dr. Carla Edwards, MD @Edwards10Carla The enforced societal restrictions over the past three months have left athletes feeling negative, unmotivated, emotionally detached from sport and feel as though they have lost direction—all of which impacts their overall mental health. We both witnessed how athletes’ psychological experiences evolved during […]
Working with Government to plan a ‘return-to-sport’ during the COVID-19 pandemic: The United Kingdom’s collaborative 5-Stage model
By Simon Kemp, Charlotte Cowie, Mark Gillet, Richard Higgins, Jerry Hill, Zafar Iqbal, Paul Jackson, Rod Jaques, Jo Larkin, Gemma Phillips, Nick Peirce, James Calder The SARS-CoV-2 virus (that causes COVID-19) first infected humans in December 2019. With 118,000 cases and 4000 deaths globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March […]
Why the WHO wants the world to stay active with Prof Fiona Bull. Episode #429
BJSM Friday Podcast #429 On this week’s episode, we are joined again by Prof Fiona Bull to discuss why and how we should stay active in self-isolation. Prof Bull is the Programme Manager in the Department of Prevention of NCDs at the WHO in Geneva. She leads the WHO’s global work on physical activity. In […]
Cardiac considerations for return to play in professional footballers: The Somauroo Model
By Sarah Lindsay, Andy Massey, Robert Cooper, Sean Carmody, John Somauroo Six months on from the first proposed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and our world has been transformed. The World Health Organization (WHO) has categorised COVID-19 as a pandemic that is expected to pose a profound challenge on all aspects of […]