Part of the new ‘Gateway to Sport and Exercise Medicine’ blog series The impact of the pandemic was fully felt by all professional sports, with many events cancelled or postponed. The European Tour Golf normally runs a very full programme throughout the year, with events on most continents (having not quite reached Antarctica yet!). Therefore, […]
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Physical Activity in Young Adulthood Pays Dividends Decades Later
Regular exercise in youth, midlife may protect against diabetes, high cholesterol in later life – part of the BJSM’s #KnowledgeTranslation blog series Why is this study important? Despite our understanding of the general benefits of physical activity on preventing diabetes and cholesterol problems, there is limited knowledge on how physical activity levels at different stages […]
Retrain the brain to decrease (tendon) pain
Neurodynamic contributions of eccentric muscle contractions Mechanisms explaining the benefits from eccentric exercises (EEx) for managing tendinopathy can be found on the (molecular) level of the muscle-tendon or tendon-to-bone complex and generally involve remodeling of tissue morphology. Mechanisms can also be found in the central nervous system as emerging evidence demonstrates the positive effects EEx […]
Mind the analytics when studying the benefits of physical activity with accelerometers
A consensus on analytical approaches to investigate the associations of physical activity with health outcomes The benefits of physical activity have been recently described in the World Health Organization guidelines [1]. Movement sensors have enhanced the research of the physical activity benefits by allowing a detailed analysis of the physical activity patterns throughout the day. […]
The BJSM Global Mentoring Program– a worldwide network to advance equity and science
What is the BJSM Global SEM Mentoring Program and why is it important? The BJSM Editorial Board is committed to advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) across sport and exercise medicine (SEM), and we have developed several initiatives in recent months to support this priority. The key barriers to achieving EDI in SEM are inequity […]
Analysing technique to reduce tackle injury risk in rugby
Part of the BJSM’s #KnowledgeTranslation blog series Why is this topic important? From both a player welfare and team performance perspective, it is of utmost importance that ‘time-loss’ injuries be prevented. To prevent time-loss injuries, we need to identify the leading cause of these injuries and understand ‘what goes wrong’ during them. Understanding what goes […]
Why reinforcing good practice around head #BUMPs and re-thinking what makes us go ‘#OUCH’ could benefit player welfare in rugby
In 2008, research showed that 58% of players diagnosed with concussion after the game had remained on the field after their head injury event(1,2). Since then, we have seen a paradigm shift not only in terms of how head injuries are viewed across the rugby landscape, but also in terms of the processes put in […]
When Mario met two of the clinical leads at #Tokyo2020 – Part 1
A transcript of a chat between Mario Bizzini (PT & BJSM Deputy Editor), and Prof Masaki Katayose and Mina Samukawa, who were both instrumental to the medical set-up at #Tokyo2020. Prof. Masaki Katayose san: can you please introduce yourself, and also describe your function during the Tokyo Olympic Games (Masaki) I graduated Sapporo Medical University, […]
Return-to-running following childbirth: When the principles of Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health collide
Return-to-running following childbirth: When the principles of Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health collide In 2019 a BJSM blog highlighted the pelvic health considerations for return-to-running following childbirth and called for postpartum rehabilitation to align with return-to-sport injury models (Donnelly et al., 2019). We decided to answer its call for female-specific research and we wanted to […]
The medicinal properties of eccentric muscle contractions
Eccentric exercises (EEx) are well known in resistance training (RT) 1, injury prevention and rehabilitation and (chronic) disease management. Eccentric training in rehabilitation has long been a subject of controversy as EEx are prone to elicit strong muscle damage, subsequent soreness (DOMS) and impaired muscle functioning. Exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) and the hypothesis that EIMD […]