Swiss Junior Doctors and Undergraduate Perspective on Sport and Exercise Medicine Blog Series By Justin Carrard @CarrardJustin For the third year in a row, The Swiss Society of Sport Medicine will run the Swiss Students Day! Since the “Students & Junior Doctors SGSM/SSMS” was created in March 2017, they have run Students Day successfully. This year, the’ve organised […]
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Two days. Ten events. The need for a decathlete to optimise their training and health for sports performance
By Pascal Edouard, MD, PhD, @PascalEdouard42 and Jacques Pruvost, MD 9126! The total points Kévin Mayer, a French decathlete, scored just two weeks ago at the Decastar meeting in Talence, France, breaking the decathlon world record with 4563 points on the first and 4563 on the second day. Mayer’s win illustrates the important and delicate […]
#GolfingConsensus: another option to improve mental health and increase physical activity?
By Paul Blazey @blazey85 To coincide with the start of today’s Ryder Cup, this week BJSM published the 2018 consensus statement on golf and health (1). In the paper, golf is portrayed as a means to address current public health concerns over a lack of physical activity, and as a sport with health benefits as […]
#BJSMCoverComp2018 – Round 2!
Following the ‘hot on the heels’ first five BJSM cover nominees of the past 18 months, we now give you the remaining four contenders. The competition is going to be fierce. This group contains some strong options! Head over to our Facebook and Twitter (@BJSM_BMJ) pages to vote and share your favourite cover. You can also […]
Methods for acquiring kinematic data in alpine skiing (Part 1)
By Wlodzimierz S. Erdmann, Piotr Aschenbrenner, Vasilis Giovanis The motion involved in alpine skiing is one of the most difficult to analyze because the trajectory is curvilinear and the athlete moves in a wide, open space. In alpine ski disciplines, the skier is moving relative to the start and finish planes, relative to snow/ground level […]
#BJSMCoverComp2018 – Win prizes!
It’s back! We’re thrilled to announce the return of the hugely popular annual cover competition! You can win great prizes by engaging with the social media polls over the next three weeks. Follow us on our Facebook and Twitter (@BJSM_BMJ) pages to like, share and comment on your favourite cover. The most engagement on one cover […]
The Sneakers in the Closet
By Phillip B. Sparling I was in the basement going through our cedar chest hoping to locate some obscure document related to family history. Under the photo albums, I discovered an old baseball glove, a junior high football jersey and a pair of kangaroo-hide track spikes. Unexpectedly, I found old friends. The Rawlings glove was […]
BJSM APP REVIEW – UBC Radiology
By Daniel Friedman @ddfriedman APP REVIEW NAME OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION UBC Radiology Teaching App CREATORS Dr. Kathryn Darras (Project Lead) and Dr. Matthew Toom (Technical Lead) CATEGORY OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION Medical PLATFORM iOS (requires iOS 8.0 or later; compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch), Android COST Free ABOUT THE APP Based on the […]
Synergistic interactions of steroid hormones
By Dr Nicky Keay @nickyKfitness The action of the sun on skin is the most effective way of making vitamin D. However, even walking around outside naked for 5 hours every day during UK winter months is not sufficient to make adequate vitamin D. Therefore, much to the relief of the audience at the recent BASEM Spring […]
APP REVIEW. Physiotherapy Assessment Tool (PHAST): clinical assessment guide and injury profile identification
By Natalia Bittencourt @bittencourt_nfn, Sergio Fonseca and Luciana D Mendonça @luludemichelis APP REVIEW NAME OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION PHAST – Physiotherapy Assessment Tool CATEGORY OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION Android: health and wellness; iOS: health and fitness. PLATFORM Android, iOS. COST 3 Free Assessment credits; 10 Assessment credits US$23.99 ABOUT THE APP Several sports injuries are a result […]