This Friday’s podcast features the heavily in-demand Dr Enda King. Enda is Head of Performance Rehabilitation at the Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, and world-leading authority on Hip, Groin and ACL injuries. In this 20-minute masterclass, Enda provides cutting-edge insight on a number of topics including: – The role of biomechanical factors in injury prevention […]
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Das Verhindern von Überdiagnosen und die negativen Folgen von zu viel Sport- und Bewegungsmedizin (Teil 1 von3)
Link zum Originaltext: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/20/1314 Von Daniel J. Friedman (Twitter @ddfriedman) und Karim M. Khan (Teil 1 von3) Brauche ich diese Untersuchung, diese Behandlung, dieses Verfahren wirklich? Was für Nachteile gibt es? Was passiert, wenn ich nichts mache? Gibt es einfachere, sicherere Optionen? Diese vier Fragen, vorgestellt von Choosing Wisely Canada, spielten 2018 im Rahmen […]
An internship at the Isokinetic centre London: A one-month experience
Swiss Junior Doctors and Undergraduate Perspective on Sport and Exercise Medicine Blog Series By Anne Cornevin @anne_cornevin Shadowing Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) doctors in their daily practice is key for those keen to have a career in SEM. You may ask: why choose to go to the UK when one can find SEM doctors to shadow […]
When it comes to pain everything matters with Prof Lorimer Moseley
Being a human is a process…People in pain need to appreciate the fearful and wonderful complexity of themselves. In the last four years, we have learnt a lot about pain. Our listeners have jumped on board the brain bus to learn about the brain and mind in chronic pain, why pain is different from […]
A battle cry for change in the female running world: physicians are listening
Let’s start to discuss how we can reframe women’s running culture from the lens of the medical professional. By Emily Kraus, MD @emilykrausMD It was the day after elite runner Mary Cain bravely shared her riveting story of the unhealthy pressures and emotional abuse she experienced while training under Alberto Salazar at the Nike Oregon […]
Stepping up to better running form with the Running Physio – Tom Goom
What are the keys to good running form? Is there a magical number for step rate? Should we all be changing the way we run? On this week’s podcast, Tom Goom joins us to chat about gait retraining and its role in helping injured runners. Known to many in the SEM community as the […]
Of Mice and Men (and Women)
By Dr Nicky Keay @nickyKfitness “We need to treat individual women, not statistics” was the concluding sentence of an insightful BMJ Editorial 2019 [1] However, as Caroline Criado Perez points out in her recent, science prizing-winning book, ‘Invisible Women’, in many instances there are no scientific or medical statistics on women [2]. The efficacy of […]
Exercise for the prevention and treatment of cognitive deficits in patients with dementia
By Michiel R.M. Twiss @physiotwiss Regular aerobic exercise (AE) can stop and even reverse brain atrophy. One year of moderate AE has been shown to increase hippocampal volume and improve memory in healthy older adults (1). Recent meta-analytic evidence has confirmed the effects of AE at augmenting hippocampal volume in the healthy late adulthood brain (2,3). Furthermore, […]
Protecting the health of athletes: height categories in taekwondo
By Gal Dubnov-Raz, MD In most types of combat sports and martial arts, contestants compete within specific weight categories. In order to fit in the weight category, fighters commonly undergo intentional rapid weight loss before competitions. Body weight can indeed be an advantage in full-contact types of fights such as wrestling, judo, full-contact karate and […]
Kicking Groin pain ‘Into touch’
By Helen McElroy (@helenmcelroy) Physiotherapist and Northern Ireland Rep for ACPSEM Hip and Groin pain in kicking sports will be the focus of the 2019 ACPSEM Autumn Study day. This two-day event will be held in Riddell Hall, Belfast on 22/23rd November. We’ve pulled together experts from several kicking sports including international rugby and premiership […]