Keywords: rest, exercise, sport-related concussion In this blog, we summarize our recent publication that presents evidence regarding the risks and benefits of physical activity (PA), prescribed aerobic exercise treatment, rest, cognitive activity, and sleep during the early recovery phase after sport-related concussion (SRC) (1). This systematic review was developed for the international Concussion in Sport […]
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Are we working (too) comfortably?!: A toolkit for moving more during the work at home day
This blog provides a toolkit developed based on ongoing research from the University of Edinburgh exploring ways to help those working from home move more during their day. Shifting to working (too) comfortably Cast your mind back to early 2020 – the world went into a global lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19. We […]
Reflection of the Swiss Sports Medicine Day for Students
A place like no other Each year, a hundred medical students from all over Switzerland come together in one place to experience a day about sports medicine. This year, it was in Interlaken, a magnificent city in the Bernese Oberland, where 60 students and even a guest medical student from Sweden, Moa Engström, met. Here […]
Physical Activity Is Associated with Fewer Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths
Authors: Bryant Webber; Heather Yun; Geoffrey Whitfield After reviewing 25 studies during the pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that being physically inactive increases the chance of severe COVID-19 illness. Given emerging interest in the relationship between physical activity and infectious diseases, we explored the impact of types and amounts of […]
Are we as clinicians playing our part to address the increased injury risk following a Sports-Related Concussion?
Active rehabilitation and graded exercise rather than physical rest may help reduce the increased injury risk reported in many recent studies. Keywords: Sports-Related Concussion, Rehabilitation, Injury risk Sports-Related Concussion (SRC) may increase subsequent injury risk (1–3), with disturbances to the neuromuscular control system often theorised as a contributing factor (4). Outside elite sport, protocols advise […]
Assessing Achilles tendinopathy
The VISA-A (sedentary) should be used for sedentary patients with Achilles tendinopathy: a modified version of the VISA-A developed and evaluated in accordance with the COSMIN checklist. Keywords: Achilles tendinopathy, sedentary, patient reported outcome measure. In this blog, we will explain how we developed and evaluated a modified version of the Victorian Institute of Sport […]
Can physical therapy reduce the use of opioids in people with knee pain?
Keywords: knee pain, osteoarthritis, opioids, physical therapy, exercise In this blog, we explain the findings from our recent study on the relation of timing of physical therapy initiation after a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis with risk of opioid use in the future (1). Why is this study important? Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause […]
Muscle injuries that extended to the tendon during Olympic competition can cause undesirable results
Keywords: Tendon, athletes, Tokyo This blog will explain the results of an epidemiological surveillance that investigated muscle injuries incurred during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This study helped athletes and their medical teams make decisions on whether or not to continue competing. Our study (recently published in BJSM) was conducted during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic […]
From Alternative to Mainstay: the overwhelming evidence supporting physical activity as a treatment for anxiety and depression
Authors: Ben Singh, Timothy Olds, Rachel Curtis, Dot Dumuid, Rosa Virgara, Amanda Watson, Kimberley Szeto, Edward O’Connor, Ty Ferguson, Emily Eglitis, Aaron Miatke, Catherine EM Simpson, Carol Maher. Ben Singh, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition, and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Ben.Singh@unisa.edu.au In this blog, we provide an overview […]
Health information provided through a digital platform decreased the likelihood of sustaining a new injury in youth athletics (track and field)
Authors: Jenny Jacobsson, Jan Kowalski, Toomas Timpka, Armin Spreco, Per-Olof Hansson and Örjan Dahlström. The Athletics Research Center, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Contact: jenny.jacobsson@liu.se Twitter: @Jenny_Jacobsson We present here an overview of our randomized control trial published in BJSM on providing health and training information adjusted for youth athletics (track and field) via a digital health platform. […]