Tom Best, co-medical director of Ohio State University Sports Medicine and professor of Family Medicine, OSU College of Medicine, talks about his work on the treatment of hamstring injuries. 1.00 - Clinical scenario: acute hamstring injury 4.15 - Recovery time 9.34 - Considerations before returning to sport 17.00 - Recurrence 19.30 - Use of NSAIDs 23.30 - Role of massage in sports medicine injuries 26.20 - American College of Sports Medicine 2012 meeting in San Francisico 30.30 - Other hamstring...
Apr 23, 2013•32 min
Pregnancy is hardly an uncommon condition in women, so what are the ins and out of exercise during those nine months? Harriet Vickers (BMJ’s assistant multimedia producer) talks to Bronwyn Bell (consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist) about the benefits and risks of physical activity from conception to postpartum, and how to look after women at different levels of fitness. 0:00 Conception: Getting in shape before becoming a mum and optimising your chances of conception 2:16 BMI and pregnancy ...
Apr 23, 2013•20 min
In this podcast, also recorded at UKSEM, Babette Pluim (BJSM deputy editor) interviews Glen Hageman (president of the South African Sports Medicine Association). They discuss the work of SASMA, and plans for the future.
Apr 23, 2013•9 min
In anther podcast recorded at the UKSEM conference held in London in November, Karim Khan (BJSM editor) talks to Lars Engebretsen (head of science and research for the International Olympic Committee). They discuss the IOC’s work in trauma research, health promotion, and the BJSM-IOC special issues. 2:32: The launch of the IOC’s focus on injury prevention and health promotion (IPHP). 4:00 - Periodic health exam - should athletes be screened prior to major competition? Can we prevent high level a...
Apr 23, 2013•10 min
Karim Khan talks to Michael Turner about his career as chief medical advisor for the British Horse Racing Association.
Apr 23, 2013•17 min
Hamstring injuries are the most prevalent muscle injuries in sport. Symptoms can be particularly prolonged, healing response poor, and the risk of re-injury high. Carl Askling (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) has been trialling a new way of categorising these injuries, thinking about them as high-speed running or stretching types. He explains to Karim Khan how these types can be diagnosed and the different treatment and monitoring they require. He also describes how to assess athletes post hams...
Apr 23, 2013•12 min
BJSM editor Karim Khan talks to Michael Turner about his time as chief medical adviser of the Lawn Tennis Association, including the medical scandals that have cropped up and the advances he’s seen in the game’s sports medicine. Dr Turner is also chief medical adviser for the British Horseracing Authority, but more of that in a future podcast…
Apr 23, 2013•14 min
We’re well down the road to London 2012, but getting here has taken a herculean feat of organisation. In this BJSM podcast Richard Budgett, Chief Medical Officer British Olympic Association, explains how LOCOG has prepared to meet the medical needs of the olympians, their entourage, and their fans.
Apr 23, 2013•27 min
Coming together at the UKSEM conference in London, Professor Lars Engebretsen (Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and IOC medical commission) talks to Dr Richard Frobell (Lund University, Malmo, Sweden) about his work on return to exercise after ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury. Dr Frobell describes the evidence already on this issue, and his recently published randomized trial on whether surgery or rehabilitation improves pain, symptoms, function in sports and recreation, and knee-relate...
Apr 23, 2013•7 min
Diagnosing chronic exertional compartment syndrome relies on measuring intramuscular pressure, however Andrew Franklyn-Miller (Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin; education director at BASEM) has shown the criteria for this are flawed (2.51). He talks to BJSM editor Karim Khan about what clinicians can do to get round this, his theory the condition is caused by biomechanical overload and his work looking at running re-education to alleviate symptoms (6.13). He also gives us his views on barefoot runn...
Apr 23, 2013•25 min
Whether to opt for exercise treatment, new ‘biological therapies’ like platelet-rich plasma (PRP), or surgery is a clinical challenge. Sweden’s Professor Håkan Alfredson has unique experience in considering these options for patients with Achilles pain. He has 15 years experience as an international leader in sports and exercise medicine. In this podcast, he tells BJSM’s editor Karim Khan how to manage both straightforward (0.37) and complicated (7.34) Achilles tendinopathy. He shares novel insi...
Apr 23, 2013•27 min
Zoals u weet heeft de VSG deze zomer een samenwerking gesloten met de British Journal of Sports Medicine. Door de samenwerking heeft sportarts Adam Weir een podcast opgenomen met directeur Anja Bruinsma van de Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde. Anja Bruinsma gaat in op: Samenwerking VSG en BJSM, erkenning sportgeneeskunde, wetenschapsdomein, centraal stellen van de sporter en de toekomst van de sportgeneeskunde. Voor meer informatie zie ook www.sportzorg.nl, www.sportgeneeskunde.com....
Apr 23, 2013•23 min
VSG’s (the sports medicine society of the Netherlands) editor-in-chief Hans Tol and congress committee member Adam Weir highlight the October issue of BJSM and preview the VSG Annual Meeting on 1-2 December 2011. The first paper highlighted is from Collard et al [http://bit.ly/ZFQS3U], who have calculated the economic costs of organised sports, leisure time physical activities and physical education classes of 10-12 year old Dutch children (1.26). The outcomes are intriguing! A second paper of i...
Apr 23, 2013•8 min
Ultrasound is rapidly revolutionising point-of-care medicine in many specialties. The last few years have seen technological advances make musculoskeletal ultrasound more practical, opening up opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. In this podcast, BJSM’s editor Karim Khan investigates the value of musculoskeletal ultrasound and how to integrate it into practice, with Kim Harmon, director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Washington, US, and Sean Martin,...
Apr 23, 2013•20 min
In this BJSM podcast, Karim Khan talks to Anthony Beutler (Injury Prevention Research Lab, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland) about the JUMP-ACL study http://www.iprc.unc.edu/jumpacl/. It is a large prospective cohort study which investigates risk factors for ACL injury - results will be published soon. They discuss the mechanism of ACL injury in different athletes, the risk of recurrence, and plans to turn the results into practical steps to prevent this injury. Related articles...
Apr 23, 2013•24 min
Karim Khan catches up with associate professor Michele Sterling (Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), University of Queenstown, Australia) at the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Congress. As an international expert on neck pain, Michele explains what we currently do and don’t know about whiplash, and advises on managing the condition. She talks us through the importance of early pain management, the link with post traumatic stress disorder and what ...
Apr 23, 2013•22 min
Dr Mike Loosemore is a consultant in sports and exercise medicine who works at the English Institute of Sport and the University College London Hospital. In this podcast he emphasises the importance of clinicians taking an exercise/activity history. (See link Developing healthcare systems to support exercise: exercise as the fifth vital sign http://bit.ly/17Uhlyc). He provides practical tips for clinicians and highlights major health benefits from physical activity in a wide range of settings as ...
Apr 23, 2013•14 min
Professor Jiri Dvorak, one of BJSM’s senior associate editors, shares his 17 years experience as the FIFA chief medical officer. He discusses How FIFA have reduced injuries in football [1], The evidence for football being a great medicine [2 a ,b] ‘Football for Health’ – FIFA’s successful foray into public health education in schools [3]. This is a terrific story of research turning into action – improved health for football players and football players contributing to improve the health of thei...
Apr 23, 2013•25 min
Jon Drezner, BJSM’s senior associate editor for sports cardiology, discusses prevention of sudden cardiac death. Jon discusses where ECG fits into screening, training sport physicians to confidently interpret ECGs, and the utility of automated external defibrillators. Jon is also president-elect of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine, and he gives us a preview of the 2012 annual meeting in Atlanta (April 21-25). To listen to Jon Drezner’s opening keynote presentation at the IOC’s 3rd...
Apr 23, 2013•40 min
BASEM’s chair of education, Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller, highlights the July issue of BJSM and previews the UKsem Congress in November 2011. Listen to an introduction to Marije T Elferink-Gemser’s paper [http://bit.ly/15DGYDR] on what it takes to be an elite athlete. Another paper of particular interest [http://bit.ly/mLoMpk] highlights the role of proximal stabilisers (eg hip) in patellofemoral pain. Considering the UKsem conference in London, November 23-26? You won’t regret it. Dr AFM discusses...
Apr 23, 2013•21 min
South african sports medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years. In this podcast, president of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) Jon Patricios, and University of Cape Town professor Tim Noakes, share their views on the past, present and future of sports medicine in Africa. Patricios and Noakes review the influence of the 2011 FIFA World Cup on african sports medicine, and highlight the ‘Football For Health’ program which is underpinned by research published in BJSM in 2010...
Apr 23, 2013•33 min
Exercise on prescription in Sweden started in the 1980s, and has now become widespread in the country. To help primary care clinicians navigate the evidence on prescribing exercise, the Swedish Institute of Public Health have produced the book Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (available for personal use from http://www.fyss.se) In this podcast Mai-Lis Hellénius and Carl Johan Sundberg, two of the authors of the book, share their experience of exercise on prescription ...
Apr 23, 2013•36 min
This podcast focuses on recent advances in sports imaging – particularly side-line ultrasound and the use of MR imaging at sporting venues where teams are based. It adds to the discussion raised in several papers in the December 2010 issues of BJSM (#16) The print issue has editorials by Kim Harmon and Fran O’Connor (AMSSM) [http://bit.ly/Y1bIfQ], as well by the head of Olympic radiology at Vancouver 2010 – Bruce Forster [http://bit.ly/10aB8lt]. One of the papers discussed in the podcast [http:/...
Apr 23, 2013•47 min
Treating tendinopathies remains a challenge, despite many advances in the past decade. Listen to practical tips and a tip to consider the time course of tendon injury when making treatment decisions. More information can be found in Professor Cook’s paper Is tendon pathology a continuum? A pathology model to explain the clinical presentation of load-induced tendinopathy http://bit.ly/R0PDbT See also: Jeremy Lewis on shoulder tendinopathy http://bit.ly/mm3C1f Tendon-focussed issue, BJSM #5, April...
Apr 23, 2013•29 min
In this edition of the BJSM podcast, Robert Jan de Vos and Adam Weir discuss their research on the efficacy of platelet rich plasma injections for the treatment of tendon injury.
Apr 23, 2013•24 min
In this edition of the BJSM podcast, human movement specialist Evert Verhagen discusses ankle sprains and rehabilitation.
Apr 23, 2013•17 min
Everything you wanted to know about the Zurich International Conference on Concussion The Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2008 is BJSM’s top download and this podcast takes you behind the scenes. Professor Paul McCrory shares the reasons behind recent changes in management of concussion and provides practical tips for you to prevent concussion and treat it where necessary. Part 3: You are the expert – yo...
Apr 23, 2013•31 min
Everything you wanted to know about the Zurich International Conference on Concussion The Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2008 is BJSM’s top download and this podcast takes you behind the scenes. Professor Paul McCrory shares the reasons behind recent changes in management of concussion and provides practical tips for you to prevent concussion and treat it where necessary. Part 2:Professor McCrory provid...
Apr 23, 2013•39 min
Everything you wanted to know about the Zurich International Conference on Concussion The Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2008 is BJSM’s top download and this podcast takes you behind the scenes. Professor Paul McCrory shares the reasons behind recent changes in management of concussion and provides practical tips for you to prevent concussion and treat it where necessary. Part 1: An overview of the conf...
Apr 23, 2013•37 min
Which type of ACL reconstruction is best? How does one decide? What are the rehabilitation implications of each? In this podcast, US and Norwegian knee specialists Elizabeth Arendt and Lars Engebretsen share their experiences from operations that have allowed thousands to return to sport at the highest level. But they also raise the question, “Does everyone who ruptures their ACL need an operation?” Related articles http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/bjsm.2009.058156v1 http://bjsm.bmj.com/...
Apr 23, 2013•47 min
