The Gait Way to Sport and Exercise Medicine – a BJSM blog series By Dr Scott Osborne @DrScottOsborne A ‘taster week’ is the opportunity for newly qualified doctors in the UK to spend up to five days gaining experience in a specialty of their choice. Having previously worked with sports medicine consultant Dr Andrew Murray (@docandrewmurray), I arranged […]
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Athletes! Is food and training the answer? (Part 2)
Start with Part 1 of this blog here. Physically, when the body is under “stress” levels of cortisol rise. When this is chronic, it prevents the pituitary gland from working effectively, leading to hormonal disturbances that have serious negative consequences.(1-3) The more obsessive and restrictive an athlete becomes, the more the workings of neurotransmitters are […]
Talking Tendinopathy & Solving the Soleus Conundrum with Dr Seth O’Neill
Elaborating on a milestone podcast: 5000 listens within 48-hours of going live…usually associated with football transfer announcements, not chats about muscles of the lower limb! Testament to the quality of the guest, the podcast has generated quite a response online. What are the key concepts, models & papers referred to in the podcast? Risk […]
#GISPT19 International Conference / Advances in Sport Rehabilitation: Football Symposium
After the success of the first two editions, the Advances in Sport Rehabilitation Football Symposium is back! The congress takes place this June in the heart of Verona, in the historical palace of Gran Guardia. This year, discussions will revolve around Rehabilitation and Return to Sport in the world of Football. We’ve partnered with Group of Italian Sports (GIS), The British Journal […]
Athletes! Is food and training the answer? (Part 1)
Human competitive nature is a biological trait that has co-evolved with the basic need for survival(1). It motivates us to get out of bed and show up every day. But is all competitiveness good for us? From my 8-years of sports specific and 20-years total dietetic experience working with athletes of all levels (recreational […]
Empowering female athletes in 2019
“When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They’re weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.” In 1967, 20-year-old Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to complete the all-male Boston Marathon as an official entrant. Registered as ‘K.V. […]
Feedback from the 1st British-Swiss student exchange!
Swiss Junior Doctors and Undergraduate Perspective on Sport and Exercise Medicine Blog Series By Anne Cornevin @anne_cornevin, Giuseppe Loggia, Chloé Joray @chloejoray, Laurène Niederhauser and Tej Pandya @PandyaTej Foreword: Tej Pandya At the 2017 British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) Conference, we were delighted to see Justin Carrard, a junior doctor working in Switzerland […]
Returning to Sport/Dance restoring Energy Availability in RED-S?
Dr Nicky Keay Although improvements are being made to raise awareness and in effectively managing relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S)[1, 2] what about once an athlete/dancer is “medically cleared” to return to sport/dance? What advice/support is there for athletes/dancers and their coaches/teachers? After discussions with coaches, here are some suggestions on how to achieve return to sport/dance […]
World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy: return to sport/ screening
By Christina Le @yegphysio Return to sport, it’s so hot right now. That’s right Zoolander, move aside for one of the most heavily researched and discussed topics in sports medicine! It seems like a new paper is published nearly every day that tackles some aspect of return to sport (RTS) in athletes who have undergone anterior […]
We can thank all reviewers but we aren’t allowed to thank you individually!
One of the golden rules of gratefulness is to be personal and specific. Not ‘you all did a great job’, but ‘thanks Babette, I know you edited 44 zombie nouns from that paper and gave it a much more engaging title’. The authors have just written back to thank BJSM. Fringe benefit: video link if […]