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 […]
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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 […]
Parkrun: a 5K event making strides in boosting health
By Charles Hillman Recently celebrating its 15th anniversary since inception,[1] parkrun is on the increase on an international scale. Consisting of volunteer-led, free weekly timed 5km runs in local parks, it has the potential to have an impact on the global issue of inactivity. Since the British Royal College of General Practitioners began actively promoting […]
Highlights from FSEM Ireland Annual Scientific Conference 2019
By Jonny Elliott (@jelliott1989) On 14th September the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (FSEM) Ireland hosted it’s widely anticipated 16th Annual Scientific Conference (ASC) at the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. The event itself, entitled “Movement is Therapy”, showcased some of the best and brightest from across Medical and Allied Health Professions and […]
Breaking the unbreakable sub-two-hour marathon with Dr Alex Hutchinson PhD
No human is limited – Eliud Kipchoge On October 12 in Vienna, 34-year-old Eliud Kipchoge became the first person in history to run a marathon in under two hours. His time of 1:59:40 was almost two minutes faster than his own official marathon world record of 2:01:39 he set at the 2018 Berlin Marathon. But […]