Dr Carolyn Broderick provides practical examples of the type of physical exercise that is feasible in children with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, mitochondrial myopathy, haemophilia, or after an organ transplantation. She also discusses the risk of injury during the growth spurt and how to best avoid these injuries. Dr Broderick, MBBS, FACSP, PhD, is a staff specialist in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia. She was Medical Director of the Australi...
May 22, 2015•12 min
Dr Carolyn Broderick, MBBS, FACSP, PhD is staff specialist in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia. Dr Carolyn is Team Physician for the Australian Federation Cup Tennis Team. She was Medical Director of the Australian Team for the Youth Olympic Games in 2014 and Team Physician for the Australian Team at the Sydney 2000 and London 2012 Olympic Games. She is a member of the Australian Olympic Committee Medical Commission and Deputy Medical Director for the...
May 22, 2015•8 min
Kids as young as 8 years old sign with football clubs and live at Football Club Academies. One website describes the Brighton & Hove Albion FC Academy as “a place where dreams are fired, hopes are heightened and aspirations are raised.” Sam Blanchard (@SJBPhysio_sport) has had 4 years experience in junior development. He’s also a leader among the UK Physios in Sport (@SportsPhysios) You’ll hear about (i) the typical day for a child/adolescent in this setting, (ii) how to vary training during...
May 19, 2015•19 min
K-tape is ubiquitous in top sport. Does it boost performance or prevent injury? In this 2nd podcast about tape, two-time Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games physiotherapist Chris McNicholl shares his clinical wisdom and his scrutiny of the literature. See below for list of papers that Chris mentions and here’s the link to his other podcast – on regular taping. http://bit.ly/1bUnP5U Don’t forget to check out the UK Physios Taping courses here: http://www.physiosinsport.org/courses.html Schiffer ...
May 15, 2015•12 min
You or your patient wants to lose weight. What gives you the best bang for your buck? BJSM editor Karim Khan puts London cardiologist and physical activity champion Dr Aseem Malhotra under the glaring lights. This podcast follows up the free BJSM editorial 'It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: you cannot outrun a bad diet' Here’s the link to the related BJSM editorial: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/05/07/bjsports-2015-094911.full You can also listen to Dr Malh...
May 12, 2015•12 min
Steven Stovitz, MD, MS, directs the University of Minnesota’s Program in Primary Care Sports Medicine and is the associate director of the University of Minnesota’s Sports Medicine Fellowship. His clinical work is divided between the University of Minnesota’s Sports Medicine clinic and Orthopedic clinic along with the athletics department, where he is a team physician for University’s athletes. Dr. Stovitz’s research involves the intersection of clinical medicine and epidemiology, as well as a v...
May 08, 2015•15 min
Dr Russell Hearn has a portfolio career that sees him balance his time between working in general practice in London and Expedition & Wilderness Medicine. He directs and teaches on the Expedition & Wilderness medicine components at Kings College London (KCL) and University College of London (UCL) & is also an Advanced Life Support Instructor. In recognition of providing high-level medical cover for various expeditions and extreme events, Dr Hearn was elected a fellow of the Wildernes...
May 05, 2015•21 min
Podcast titles are limited to 100 characters; the ideal title would have been…”Working as a multidisciplinary team in elite sport – the role of physiotherapy, strength and conditioning teams, medical folks, soft tissue therapists, exercise rehabilitators etc.”. A leading elite team physiotherapist (Andrew Wallis, PT) and a head of sports science/conditioning (Darren Burgess, PhD) provide you the inside view from within two elite teams. And they have international experience before their current ...
May 01, 2015•20 min
You see kids in the clinic and you get most of them better. Do you want to revisit the anatomy and biomechanics that underpin these injuries? Are there novel approaches to treatment? Does early sport specialization cause problems? How can we balance the need for coaches to have time to develop elite juniors’ skills with the risk of overuse injuries. Some kids’ injuries, such as cam deformities at the hip may arise during the growing years and cause problems later in life. Sam Blanchard (@SJBPhys...
Apr 28, 2015•22 min
Is it safe for this athlete to exercise? Are ultraendurance events and training for them leading to reversible cardiac fatigue to frank damage and fibrosis? How should one investigate the athlete who may be in the ‘grey zone’ between benign ‘athletes heart’ and potentially fatal cardiomyopathy? Dr Andre La Gerche, an internationally renowned sports cardiologist with experience in Europe and Australia took time out from his keynote role at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine conferen...
Apr 24, 2015•20 min
Meryl Wheeler goes by the name of “non-physician expert” and she explains that after an injury a patient books online, sees an athletic therapist especially trained for this setting, before closing with a sports physician consultation. Patients who needed a surgeon got an operation 5 months earlier in this system than in Canada’s regular publicly funded one. Food for thought? Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/calgary-knee-clinic-delivers-quicker-cheaper-elite-level-car...
Apr 21, 2015•14 min
Dr. Jason Fung is a Consultant Nephrologist who trained and began his medical career at the University of Toronto before heading to the University of California in Los Angeles where he completed his fellowship in nephrology. Since then he has founded the Intensive Dietary Management Program, which provides a unique treatment for Type 2 Diabetes & Obesity. This BJSM podcast sees @Liam_West pose the questions and Dr. Fung take the listeners through the evidence behind the impact of diet on obe...
Apr 17, 2015•25 min
Modern surgical techniques can make a traditional treatment obsolete. Think of the Herbert screw for scaphoid fracture. Professor Bob McCormack tested a new hook plate in a Canadian multi-centre trial of management of complete dissociation & dislocation of the AC joint. You have to listen to find out how the story ends! Enjoy this 3rd of Bob McCormack’s 3 BJSM podcasts. You can find Bob’s other podcasts here: 1.First time shoulder dislocation: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/shoulder-disl...
Apr 14, 2015•8 min
Drs. M.P. (Rien) Heijboer, orthopedic surgeon, works at the Dept at Orthopedic at the Erasamus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. He has extensive experience with sports-related injuries and has worked for more than 30 years as medical adviser of football club Feijenoord in Rotterdam. He is a member of the medical staff of the Dutch National Soccer Team and visited the world soccer championships in Brasil in 2014, which he describes as a "life-time experience"! He is president of the Dutch Orthopedic ...
Apr 07, 2015•12 min
Chris McNicholl brings the experience of the Olympic Games and two Commonwealth Games to his sports taping courses for UK Physios in Sport. In this podcast we dig below the surface. Does taping really prevent injuries and if so, how? We cover lower limb, upper limb, joints & muscles. Football and rugby. But we keep the issue of Kinesio-tape for a separate podcast. You’ll hear Chris refer to the following papers: Tricia J. Hubbard, et al. Effect of Ankle Taping on Mechanical Laxity in Chronic...
Apr 01, 2015•24 min
‘Relative energy deficiency in sport’ (RED-S) refers to impaired physiological functioning caused by relative energy deficiency, and includes but is not limited to impairments of metabolic rate, menstrual function, bone health, immunity, protein synthesis, and cardiovascular health. You will hear McMaster University’s Dr Margo Mountjoy clarify the IOC’s consensus statement on this condition. Why it was needed. What the controversies are. And what clinicians can do in the clinic. Dr Mountjoy walk...
Mar 28, 2015•19 min
Professor Mark Batt graduated from Cambridge University Medical School in 1984 and trained in Family Medicine. He obtained a Diploma in Sports Medicine from the University of London in 1991 and completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of California, Davis in 1993. Since 1995, he has been in Nottingham, United Kingdom, as a consultant/senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Nottingham University Hospitals where he was appointed Special Professor in 2004. He serves...
Mar 20, 2015•18 min
Sports rehabilitators and trainers specialise in exercise and sports rehabilitation and managing musculoskeletal conditions. They also promote exercise and healthy lifestyles. Listen here to BASRaT Chairman, Steve Aspinall from the University of Salford, and Continuing Professional Development Officer, Allan Munroe, University of Bradford. In addition to painting the picture of the profession, and the training pathway, our guests highlight BASRaT’s clinical contribution to Team True Spirit (reha...
Mar 13, 2015•13 min
Chris Swier is a sports physiotherapist and has a Masters degree in Business Administration. As a physiotherapist, he has specialised in dry needling and myofascial release techniques. In 2006, he joined the ATP Medical Services Committee as one of their Sports Medicine Therapists on the ATP Wold Tour, traveling from tournament to tournament. He continues to work in clinical practice, mainly for Manual Fysion in Amsterdam. Chris has also worked with Dutch women's volleyball, Dutch Beach Volleyba...
Mar 06, 2015•15 min
Physical rehab (physiotherapy), behavioural rehab and combinations of these have been mainstays of back pain treatment. Dr Kieran O’Sullivan shares his expertise on what to do and what not to do – lessons from 15 years of providing specialised clinical care and engaging in top level research. Specifically, what is the role of patient advice, targeted exercises, and novel therapies including injections? You can link to Dr O’Sullivan’s home page at the University of Limerick here: http://www.ul.ie...
Feb 27, 2015•21 min
Professor Chad Cook is a clinical researcher, physical therapist, and profession advocate with a long history of clinical care excellence and service. In this podcast he shares his passion for refining and improving the patient examination process and validating tools used in day-to-day physical therapist practice. His books, including Orthopaedic Manual Therapy, are game changers. For shoulder examination, Professor Cook refers to this paper in Physical Therapy in Sport. 2014 Aug 10. Combining ...
Feb 20, 2015•35 min
Dr Aseem Malhotra is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist who has been the central catalyst in igniting the debate around the harms of excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom. He has achieved this via writing commentaries in the BMJ, appearances on majors new channels including BBC, Sky News, ITV & Channel 4 and the regular columns he writes for the Guardian Newspaper about heart disease and other health topics – http://www.theguardian.com/profile/aseem-malhotra. He is the Science...
Feb 13, 2015•18 min
Dr Jeppe Bo Lauersen, currently working as a medical doctor in Copenhagen, investigated exercise intervention and its effects during a pre-graduate scholarship year at the Institute of Sport Science in Copenhagen with co-authors Ditte Bertelsen and Lars Bo Andersen. Prof Andersen, who is the head of the Centre for Research in Childhood Health at the University of Southern Denmark and a professor the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, joins him on this podcast. They discuss their systematic revi...
Feb 13, 2015•17 min
Clavicle fractures are common in contact sports as well as cycling trauma. Canada’s Olympic Team Chief Medical Officer shares dramatic results from a large RCT which has been a game changer. Thanks to the Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) for permission to steal this content from the CASEM Annual Meeting. Enjoy this second of Bob McCormack’s three BJSM podcasts. The first was on first time shoulder dislocation: http://goo.gl/3rvsLC The third will cover AC joint separation....
Feb 06, 2015•14 min
Dr MP (Rien) Heijboer, orthopedic surgeon, works at the Dept at Orthopedic at the Erasamus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. He has extensive experience with sports-related injuries and has worked for more than 30 years as medical adviser of football club Feijenoord in Rotterdam. He is a member of the medical staff of the Dutch National Soccer Team and visited the world soccer championships in Brasil in 2014, which he describes as a "life-time experience"! He is president of the Dutch Orthopedic Soci...
Jan 30, 2015•11 min
“There is no essential human need for any carbohydrate” is just one of Professor Timothy Noakes’ quotes in this provocative chat. He explains insulin resistance, distinguishes between elite athletes and the general population, and provides examples of athletes who were likely insulin-resistant. He shares practical diet tips. BJSM asks whether diets high in protein and fat increase risk of bowel cancer or heart disease. Tim explains the surprising catalyst for Cape Town hosting the world’s first ...
Jan 23, 2015•28 min
Shoulder dislocation is common in sports, and management for the active athlete who dislocates for the first time remains controversial. Canada’s Olympic Medical Committee Medical Director, Prof Bob McCormack, explains the ways to assess patients to help decide whether to trial rehabilitation first or to opt for reconstruction. Bob has vast experience as an Olympic team doctor (beginning with Sydney) and as a team physician in the Canadian Football League and Major League Soccer. This is the fir...
Jan 16, 2015•17 min
With Ann Gates and Ian Ritchie (@ExerciseWorks and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, respectively). The ebullient Ann Gates, physical activity champion and social media phenomenon, explains that the campaign to train physicians to prescribe exercise is not squarely in the medical curriculum. In this joint podcast with Mr Ian Ritchie, we learn that surgeons are also taking up the cudgel to encourage physical activity before surgery, in hospital, and after surgery. Surgeons themselves need t...
Jan 05, 2015•24 min
Drs Jon Finnoff and John DiFiori on sports ultrasound. For several years, primary care sports medicine doctors have been mastering musculoskeletal ultrasound. With new technology comes a sharp learning curve and as the field matures, we begin to realise the full utility of point of care ultrasound. As sports medicine practitioners, we are now understanding that ultrasound has applications outside of the musculoskeletal system that may be advantageous for our practices. A couple of examples of th...
Jan 02, 2015•33 min
Dr David Opar joins us for this BJSM podcast. David is a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne and one of the emerging voices in the field of hamstring strain injuries, having done work on the possible mechanism of injury as well as prospective studies aimed at better understanding eccentric strength as a risk factor for these injuries. His work also investigates the Nordic Hamstring Device, developed by the Queensland University of Technology Hamstring Group, looking into ...
Dec 12, 2014•19 min
