This blog is part 3 of our Strong for Life series, summarising at sarcopenia. Click here for larger PDF of summary infographic Remember, as highlighted in part 1 of this series, sarcopenia is an important diagnosis that is often missed and overlooked which, if recognised, can play a pivotal role in reduced overall frailty and […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The impact of shoulder injuries in rugby: what can we control?
By Sam Blanchard @sjbphysio_sport & Paula Timpson @paulat_physio Asia is not a region that would be traditionally synonymous with Rugby Union… until now. On the 20th September 2019, Japan will host the 9th Rugby World Cup and will see the greatest rugby nations on Earth collide… literally! The impacts reported in professional rugby have been likened […]
Rugby Union injuries: future research
Stuart Bailey @stujohnbailey, Edinburgh Napier University & Scottish Rugby PhD Student As the 2018/19 rugby union season continues, player welfare is (once again) a hot topic amongst pundits, the media, and fans. Rugby at the community level is a form of physical activity and has overall physical health and wellness benefits. But what about elite players? […]
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 […]
Are the new cricket helmet standards enough: what does the evidence say?
The untimely death of Philip Hughes along with the recent Cricket World Cup and a relatively new British Standard for helmets has fuelled the debate for further research into the role of helmets. World-renowned expert on this subject Andrew McIntosh profiled these issues in a recent BMJ blog. He writes: “It became clear to me […]
Exercises to prevent sports injuries – lots of talk, but do they work?
Letter to the Editor By Dr. Babette Pluim (@DocPluim) In response to: Jeppe Bo Lauersen, Ditte Marie Bertelsen, Lars Bo Andersen. The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BJSM. 2014; 48:11 871–877 . Strength training was the big winner in a recent BJSM systematic review and meta-analysis of Lauersen et al.1 The […]
Defining safety in Canadian Sport: Moving from ‘outcomes’ to ‘process’ for injury prevention
By Tanenbaum, B.E., Cowle, S., Forbes, S.L., Banfield, J.M. Background The Canadian Sport Policy (CSP) is a product of collaboration among the 14 federal, provincial and territorial governments and other key stakeholders (e.g. Sport Canada). The current version of the policy, CSP2012, provides direction (for the next ten years) for stakeholders to realize positive impacts […]