Embracing biomechanics with Dr Enda King. Minimising the risk of a ‘plateau’ in rehabilitation. #410

This Friday’s podcast features the heavily in-demand Dr Enda King. Enda is Head of Performance Rehabilitation at the Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, and world-leading authority on Hip, Groin and ACL injuries. In this 20-minute masterclass, Enda provides cutting-edge insight on a number of topics including: – The role of biomechanical factors in injury prevention […]

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Das Verhindern von Überdiagnosen und die negativen Folgen von zu viel Sport- und Bewegungsmedizin (Teil 1 von3)

Link zum Originaltext: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/20/1314   Von Daniel J. Friedman (Twitter @ddfriedman) und Karim M. Khan (Teil 1 von3) Brauche ich diese Untersuchung, diese Behandlung, dieses Verfahren wirklich? Was für Nachteile gibt es? Was passiert, wenn ich nichts mache? Gibt es einfachere, sicherere Optionen? Diese vier Fragen, vorgestellt von Choosing Wisely Canada, spielten 2018 im Rahmen […]

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An internship at the Isokinetic centre London: A one-month experience

Swiss Junior Doctors and Undergraduate Perspective on Sport and Exercise Medicine Blog Series By Anne Cornevin @anne_cornevin Shadowing Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) doctors in their daily practice is key for those keen to have a career in SEM. You may ask: why choose to go to the UK when one can find SEM doctors to shadow […]

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Sports Medicine, Mental Health & Well-Being, and Psychedelics

  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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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