Dr Nicky Keay @nickyKfitness Health4Performance is a recently developed BASEM open access educational resource This is a world premier: a resource developed for and by athletes/dancers, coaches/teachers, parents/friends and healthcare professionals to raise awareness of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) What? Optimal health is required to attain full athletic potential. Low energy availability (LEA) can compromise […]
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Conference announcement! 14th Portuguese Sports Medicine Conference in Braga
By Rita Tomás @rtomasmd On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Society of Sports Medicine, I would like to welcome all faculty and attendees to the 2018 European City of Sport, Braga this November 15th-17th. This is the 14th edition of the national conference. Hot topics on the […]
Methods for acquiring kinematic data in alpine skiing (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1 of this blog. By Wlodzimierz S. Erdmann, Piotr Aschenbrenner, Vasilis Giovanis To prevent sport accidents, one needs to understand injury mechanisms [8]. At the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century huge investigations were taken out on alpine skiing using several methods to understand […]
Open letter from academics, practitioners, students and members of the public to the British Medical Association, the British Medical Journal publishing group, and the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine regarding editorial governance of the British Journal of Sports Medicine
BMJ Response: 19/10/18 Dear Dr Lahart, Guess, Mellor, and Nunan, I am now in a position to respond more fully to your open letter. I appreciate your robust engagement with the BJSM. The BMJ encourages comment and criticism, and your questioning of the BJSM’s policy on freeing up content is an example of the scrutiny […]
Special e-edition of BJSM: Pain management
Welcome to this extra e-journal edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. BJSM readers, listeners and other social media followers have a keen interest in pain. It’s a big problem! So, here is an online only version of BJSM and external content just for you! This is all content that has been published before – […]
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?
By Orla Muldoon @orlamuldoon Remember that rhyme. The mantra of many childhoods, wheeled out to protect youthful fragility. But do names really ‘never hurt’? Is there really no physical cost to name calling, jeering and verbal abuse? At the start of September, I started to think about the cost of street harassment (jeering, heckling and the […]
How do you identify male cyclist at risk of RED-S?
By Dr Nicky Keay @nickyKfitness Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) is a clinical model that describes the potential adverse health and performance consequences of low energy availability (LEA) in male and female athletes. Identification of athletes at risk of LEA can potentially prevent these adverse clinical outcomes. Athletes at risk of RED-S are those involved […]
Managing behavioural and mental health outcomes following a traumatic brain injury
By Sadie R. Morway, Zachary K. Winkelmann @zachwinkelmann, Kenneth E. Games @GamesKenneth It is crucial to examine the long-term effects following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in sports medicine. This is especially important for children given the sensitive development of the brain during childhood and the after-effects of TBI on mental wellness and ultimately quality of life.1-2 Understanding the potential […]
#BJSMCoverComp2018 – FINAL showdown!
The cover competition is reaching its finale. Following two bruising rounds our social media supporters have spoken and we have our four finalists. Here we go… June 2017– The extremely influential consensus statement on Concussion in Sport featured this excellent design of the brain and brainstem neural pathways. For OPEN access to the consensus statement […]
MedEduCare SEMS Education Series: Hamstrings in the Fast Lane, 7th December, London, UK
Set to run at the Chandos House in London, UK on Friday, 7th December, 2018, the next event in the MedEduCare SEMS Education series is the Meeting on Hamstrings in the Fast Lane. The programme content and faculty have been developed with co-charis Dr Noel Pollock, Chief Medical Officer for British Athletics and our Series Medical […]