By Gerhard Ruedl and Martin Burtscher Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria Take home message: Are women’s bindings set 15% too high – and increasing risk of knee injury? Are you one of the over 200 million recreational skiers practicing this fascinating sport on snow covered ski slopes during the winter months? You […]
Tag: knee
Assessing when it’s the right time to have a knee replacement
By John Orchard (@DrJohnOrchard) The Scandinavians have done it again – leading the world of orthopaedic outcome research with the first high-quality RCT to assess Total Knee Replacement (TKR) [1]. Danish investigators randomised 100 eligible patients (average age 67, BMI 32) to either TKR (n=50) or conservative care (n=50). Fortunately for knee surgeons – […]
Return to Sport After Total Knee Replacements?
By Alexander Wood The number of total knee replacements (TKR) performed annually has doubled over the last decade1. TKR is common in the young population2 and an increasing number of elderly patients are playing sport and sustaining sports related injuries3. Considering the above factors combined with improvements in life expectancy and in overall general health4, […]
Not just about the knee! Return to Play Conference “The ACL”, Melbourne July 26, 2014
The return to sport following an ACL reconstruction is often discussed in the media in terms of timelines, often with little regard to the athlete or an understanding of the process not being all about the knee. The ability to withstand multi joint, multi directional movement is vital at high load in a linear […]
Time to stop meniscectomies for degenerative tears: Practice must catch up with evidence
By Kay M Crossley (@KayMCrossley) , Joanne L Kemp (@JoanneLKemp), Charles Ratzlaff, and Ewa M Roos (@Ewa_Roos) In 2002, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) in the New England Journal of Medicine [1] made us all sit up and take note. The trial was remarkable because participants were randomised to arthroscopic debridement (including chondroplasty, removal of debris […]
Paul McGinley – an interview on 21 years in pro golf, and lessons learned from knee injury recovery
This interview was published in the Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal and is reproduced with the kind permission of Aspetar – Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital. If you want the excellent Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal sent to you just email your address to: journal@aspetar.com. And you’ll join 2500+ on the subscriber list. No junk mail, no selling your […]
Final 4 days for Abstract Submission ~ Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, Sept 18-20, 2013, Vancouver BC
In relation to its size, the patellofemoral joint (PFJ) is one of the most described joints of the human body. This may be partly attributed to the high prevalence of patellofemoral pain (PFP) in active people, the controversies concerning the underlying aetiological mechanisms, and the recalcitrant nature of the symptoms. The natural history of this […]
BJSM podcasts speak for themselves – 6,738 downloads in the last 30 days!
Are you an app developer? If you want to create the BJSM podcast app please ‘call me maybe’. Granted BJSM podcasts are marginally less popular than Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit (300 million views) but I am optimistic that sports medicine will truimph over time. Right now we are only 300 million views behind (with rounding). […]
“n=1” Are we allowing personal bias to influence our clinical advice?
Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A twice-monthly series on the BJSM blog) By Dr James Noake Most of the clinicians reading this blog currently possess or have previously had a sporting pedigree of some description. I would predict that a large number of you would state that this is what brought you into the […]
E-letter: Are there risk factors in alpine skiing?
This E-letter is in response to Are there risk factors in alpine skiing? A controlled multicentre survey of 1278 skiers. Abstract | Full article We read with interest the article from Hasler et al. (2009) “Are there risk factors in alpine skiing? A controlled multicentre survey of 1278 skiers”. In general, the answer is: ‘yes, there are […]