By Lars Engebretsen MD, PhD. Are you old enough to remember these orthopedic implants: GoreTex, Dacron, Polyester, Polypropylen, or carbon fibers? Let me remind you that these were not raincoats, mountaineering apparel or shoelaces— they were knee ligament substitutes! I am old enough to have tried these as substitutes for torn ACL or PCL, or augmentations […]
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Inaugural BJSM PhD Academy Awards 2016-17: Vote for the “People’s Choice Award” NOW
By Alan McCall Welcome to the inaugural 2016/17 PhD Academy Awards. We put out a call for recently completed PhD candidates to submit a summary of their thesis. We asked them to highlight 4 key points: What did I do? Why did I do it? What did I find? And; What are the most important clinical/practical […]
Optimising Health, Fitness and Sports Performance for young people
Part-1 of the blog mini-series on youth By Dr Nicky Keay Young people need information in order to make life decisions on their health, fitness and sport training with the support of their families, teachers and coaches. As discussed in my previous blog anima sana in corpore sano, exercise has a positive effect on all aspects of […]
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) – Level 1 Anti-doping E-Learning course. A free online anti-doping course everyone should do.
By Nat Sharp and Nash Anderson @sportmednews “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” – Hippocrates. To ensure clean, fair and safe sport, anti-doping measures are essential. ASADA (The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority) […]
Major new study on health benefits of swimming released
SWIM ENGLAND MEDIA RELEASE Swimming is uniquely placed to support people throughout their entire life. Swimming lowers the risk of early death by 28 per cent. Swimming lessons help children to develop skills quicker. Swimming and aquatic activity is a safe, cost effective and viable option for healthcare professionals to signpost patients. Call for more […]
Sport pre-participation screening for asymptomatic atlanto-axial instability (AAI) in Down Syndrome (DS) patients
Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine POSITION STATEMENT Introduction Down Syndrome (DS) is a clinical syndrome comprising of typical facial features and various physical and intellectual disabilities due to extra genetic material on chromosome 21, with one in every 1,000 babies born in the UK affected (1). DS patients are at risk of atlanto-axial instability […]
Should we be screening for gambling addiction in our athletes?
By Sean Carmody @seancarmody1 “On every advert you have a bet here and there. You cannot be surprised if people bet. You incite people to bet.” – Arsene Wenger In March, the sports medicine community traveled to Monaco for their three-yearly pilgrimage. And the hot topic? Screening in Sport. Much of the conference debate centred […]
Are we destroying junior talent? 25% reinjury rate among children who have ACL reconstructions!
By Lars Engebretsen The number of ACL injuries in children is rising. Many of us see this daily in our clinics, however, each one of us have just a few–perhaps 10-20 a year. These are active children. In my country, Norway, the majority of these children are injured while skiing. On other continents, other sports dominate. […]
A (resource packed!) overview of Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) intercalated degree courses
Undergraduate perspective on Sport & Exercise Medicine – a BJSM blog series By James Murphy This blog follows up my previous post where I broadly discussed intercalation FAQs (READ IT HERE). Here, I intend to give medical students interested in intercalating in SEM an overview of their different options. I provide, to the best of my ability, […]
Introducing the winners of the 2016 BJSM cover competition
A HUGE thank-you to everyone who voted for their favourite cover. We had the biggest voter turnout ever! So we awarded three book prizes rather than two. Meet this year’s winners: From a young age, Lise-Ann O’neill, a chartered physiotherapist, was interested in Sports Medicine. She explains, “My father was a footballer and I spent a lot […]