By Robert McCunn @RobertMcCunn , Neil V Gibson @360CUK, Liam D Harper @lharper89 Qualitative research methods are underused in our field. The prevailing epistemological approach in sports medicine favours the use of objective, numerical data. Indeed, such data and methodology is important; however, it does not always tell the full story. Context and nuance are not easily […]
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Raising Awareness of RED-S in Male and Female Athletes and Dancers
Dr Nicky Keay @nickyKfitness Health4Performance is a recently developed BASEM open access educational resource This is a world premier: a resource developed for and by athletes/dancers, coaches/teachers, parents/friends and healthcare professionals to raise awareness of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) What? Optimal health is required to attain full athletic potential. Low energy availability (LEA) can compromise […]
Methods for acquiring kinematic data in alpine skiing (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1 of this blog. By Wlodzimierz S. Erdmann, Piotr Aschenbrenner, Vasilis Giovanis To prevent sport accidents, one needs to understand injury mechanisms [8]. At the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century huge investigations were taken out on alpine skiing using several methods to understand […]
Special e-edition of BJSM: Pain management
Welcome to this extra e-journal edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. BJSM readers, listeners and other social media followers have a keen interest in pain. It’s a big problem! So, here is an online only version of BJSM and external content just for you! This is all content that has been published before – […]
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?
By Orla Muldoon @orlamuldoon Remember that rhyme. The mantra of many childhoods, wheeled out to protect youthful fragility. But do names really ‘never hurt’? Is there really no physical cost to name calling, jeering and verbal abuse? At the start of September, I started to think about the cost of street harassment (jeering, heckling and the […]
Managing behavioural and mental health outcomes following a traumatic brain injury
By Sadie R. Morway, Zachary K. Winkelmann @zachwinkelmann, Kenneth E. Games @GamesKenneth It is crucial to examine the long-term effects following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in sports medicine. This is especially important for children given the sensitive development of the brain during childhood and the after-effects of TBI on mental wellness and ultimately quality of life.1-2 Understanding the potential […]
#BJSMCoverComp2018 – FINAL showdown!
The cover competition is reaching its finale. Following two bruising rounds our social media supporters have spoken and we have our four finalists. Here we go… June 2017– The extremely influential consensus statement on Concussion in Sport featured this excellent design of the brain and brainstem neural pathways. For OPEN access to the consensus statement […]
MedEduCare SEMS Education Series: Hamstrings in the Fast Lane, 7th December, London, UK
Set to run at the Chandos House in London, UK on Friday, 7th December, 2018, the next event in the MedEduCare SEMS Education series is the Meeting on Hamstrings in the Fast Lane. The programme content and faculty have been developed with co-charis Dr Noel Pollock, Chief Medical Officer for British Athletics and our Series Medical […]
Triple play in ACL injury prevention: beyond the usual suspects.
By Drs Anne Benjaminse @AnneBenjaminse and Alli Gokeler @AlliGokeler Owoeye and colleagues correctly addressed the concern of adherence to injury prevention programmes as key to achieve a societal health impact: ‘it takes more than just a prescription and education to get patients to take their drugs’.1 In order to be effective in the real world, uptake of […]
Conference announcement: The Swiss Students Day is back!
Swiss Junior Doctors and Undergraduate Perspective on Sport and Exercise Medicine Blog Series By Justin Carrard @CarrardJustin For the third year in a row, The Swiss Society of Sport Medicine will run the Swiss Students Day! Since the “Students & Junior Doctors SGSM/SSMS” was created in March 2017, they have run Students Day successfully. This year, the’ve organised […]