Practical tips to get your dream job in the sports medicine field

By Paul Blazey @blazey85 You’re applying for your dream job to work in elite sport with the team you’ve supported from birth- who have just opened up the first sports medicine specialist full-time role at their organisation. Competition is bound to be fierce, but you’ve anticipated this moment and spent a great deal of time […]

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Waking up to the power of sleep with Associate Professor Shona Halson PhD. Episode #412

  In our first episode of 2020, Associate Professor Shona Halson PhD joins us to chat about why our new year’s resolution should be to get more sleep! Shona @ShonaHalson is an Associate Professor in the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Shona has a PhD in Exercise Physiology, recently finished up […]

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Football AS Medicine… Or is that Football IS Medicine? Does it even matter?!

  YES! And make it a double yes! 2019 was a great year for the Football is Medicine (FIM) initiative: starting with the success of the second conference in Odense, Denmark back in January 25-26, to working with the most productive soccer scientists in the world to advance the field. 2019 ended beautifully for the […]

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Das Verhindern von Überdiagnosen und die negativen Folgen von zu viel Sport- und Bewegungsmedizin (Teil 3 von3) 

  Von Daniel J. Friedman (Twitter @ddfriedman) und Karim M. Khan Teil 1: https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/12/05/das-verhindern-von-uberdiagnosen-und-die-negativen-folgen-von-zu-viel-sport-und-bewegungsmedizin-teil-1-von3/ Teil 2: https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/12/11/das-verhindern-von-uberdiagnosen-und-die-negativen-folgen-von-zu-viel-sport-und-bewegungsmedizin-teil-2-von3/ (Teil 3 von3) Für jedes Leiden eine Pille Ärzte sind mit einem Rezeptblock bewaffnet, was sie dazu verleitet Medikamente zu verschreiben. Chirurgen sind mit Skalpellen ausgerüstet, also operieren sie. Gebt uns einen Hammer und alles sieht aus wie […]

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The World Medical and Health Games — 2019 Budva

The Gait Way to Sport and Exercise Medicine – a BJSM blog series  By Shona Kohlhardt @ShonaKohlhardt This year Montenegro’s picturesque city, Budva, hosted over 1,200 participants from 45 countries for the 40th World Medical and Health Games – Medigames. Bringing together like-minded people from all over the world with a passion for sports and medicine, Medigames […]

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Keep it simple: how to best present the extent of a sports injury problem

By Pascal Edouard, MD, PhD, @PascalEdouard42 and Laurent Navarro, Ing, PhD, @LaurentNavarro5 Tables, numbers, values and data… This is just one aspect of epidemiology, and specifically for this blog: sports injury epidemiology. Yes, it can be a repelling aspect. But, we can’t deny that data are fundamental to understand the extent of an injury problem, […]

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Dynamic knee valgus and patellofemoral pain – what gives? Episode #411

  At the 6th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat held in Milwaukee in October 2019, Erin Macri pulled four clinician-scientists (Dr. Simon Lack, Dr. David M. Bazett-Jones, Dr. Gretchen Salsich, Dr. Christian Barton) into the ring, with a goal of teasing out key concepts and providing guidance on how to incorporate dynamic knee valgus into the […]

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Das Verhindern von Überdiagnosen und die negativen Folgen von zu viel Sport- und Bewegungsmedizin (Teil 2 von3)

Von Daniel J. Friedman (Twitter @ddfriedman) und Karim M. Khan Teil 1: https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/12/05/das-verhindern-von-uberdiagnosen-und-die-negativen-folgen-von-zu-viel-sport-und-bewegungsmedizin-teil-1-von3/  (Teil 2 von3) Die Medikalisierung des täglichen Lebens lässt sich auch als ein Feilbieten von Krankheiten beschreiben, also das Erweitern der Grenzen behandelbarer Krankheiten, um Märkte für den Vertrieb von Medikamenten und das Anpreisen medizinischer Verfahren und Dienstleistungen neu zu erschliessen. Das […]

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