Peter Gallagher has been the All Blacks physiotherapist for over 10 years. He discusses how they deal with RTP following ACL injuries and how shared decision-making can be used to set a RTP date. The conversation then branches out onto how changes in training load can be used to recondition players following injury and the need for exercises that provide eccentric muscle training. Finally, we consider alternative exercise programs and the role of functional movement screening for injury preventi...
Jul 15, 2016•21 min
F-MARC, the FIFA Medical Association and Research Centre, have recently launched a free online diploma primarily for doctors and other health practitioners who have little or no sports medicine knowledge or experience. There is, however, material that will appeal to anyone with an interest in sports medicine. There are currently 20 modules, which will expand to 42 by the end of the year and completion will lead to being awarded the diploma. Steffan Griffin talks to Dr Mark Fulcher, a sport and e...
Jul 08, 2016•7 min
Intramuscular Hamstring Injuries Professor Peter Brukner is a sports and exercise physician at La Trobe University’s Sports and Exercise Medicine Research Centre in Melbourne. He is Team Doctor for the Australian Cricket Team and formerly worked with Liverpool FC, Australian football in the 2010 World Cup and numerous Olympic Games. He discusses intramuscular tendon hamstring injuries, a difficult type of hamstring injury, which takes longer to recover than a typical strain. The conversation als...
Jul 01, 2016•11 min
One of the most common complaints of athletes visiting clinicians is leg pain exacerbated by exercise. In this podcast, UK vascular surgeon Rob Hinchliffe explains how iliac artery endofibrosis develops in the sportsperson. He discusses the diagnostic approach for the clinician, potential therapies and gaps in the knowledge about this relatively new pathology, which too often remains undiagnosed for long periods of time. Thanks to BJSM editorial board member and sports physician Dr Yorck Olaf Sc...
Jun 17, 2016•24 min
Whilst injuries will undoubtedly dominate the headlines at the Olympics, we shouldn't ignore the competitors' increased susceptibility to illnesses - which can cause just as much heartbreak. BJSM’s popular podcast host, Steffan Griffin (@lifestylemedic), speaks to Athletics New Zealand team sports and exercise medicine physician Dan Exeter. Dr Exeter will be in Rio in August for the 2016 Summer Games and he shares New Zealand’s secrets for prevention illness in individuals and across the New Zea...
Jun 10, 2016•15 min
Want to know more about one of the new Olympic sports, or perhaps want an insight into how to best manage jetlag in athletes? Dr James McGarvey, a sport and exercise medicine physician to the New Zealand Rugby Sevens team in Rio talks to Steffan Griffin (@LifestyleMedic) about everything 7s related - although something for all to take away! Related content: Podcast on travel with teams; This time 15s Rugby – Rugby World Cup by Prav Mathema: http://ow.ly/n1Nz300PRw5 Podcast on how Dr Nigel Jones ...
Jun 03, 2016•20 min
Dr Donald Shelbourne is an orthopedic surgeon at The Shelbourne Clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has performed more than 6,000 ACL reconstructions since 1982 and he is credited with developing the ‘accelerated rehabilitation program’. He discusses the history of the field and how he contributed to eliminating the big problem of the ‘stiff stable’ knee. He does NOT detail the rehabilitation method itself. He has an interesting thought on the role of ACL reconstruction in young people who suffe...
May 27, 2016•16 min
Do you provide medical services for athletes or teams that travel nationally or internationally? Are you confident that your travel preparations cover every possible situation? Prav Mathema, the Head of Sports Medicine for the Welsh Rugby Union and physiotherapist to the British & Irish Lions Rugby Team, discusses his top tips for travelling with elite sports teams accrued from his years of experience. Your host is BJSM Senior Associate Editor Dr Liam West (@Liam_West). Related Reading: Derm...
May 20, 2016•21 min
Professor Adrian Bauman is as respected as it gets in the hard core epidemiology world. He advises the World Health Organisation among others and he is receiving an Honor Award at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting in Boston 2016. Here’s a link: http://ow.ly/YTDt300a6wz Focusing an all professionals within the BJSM community, he argues you can make a difference! Timeline: 1:00 m – Every health professional can make a difference to promoting physical activity 3:00 m – You don’t need ...
May 13, 2016•14 min
Dr Kieran O’Sullivan, PT, PhD, was one of the first podcast guests to crack 9,000 listens! From the University of Limerick, Ireland, he has vast clinical experience and he completed a PhD on the role of sitting in back pain. In this 18-minute podcast he reviews his 2015 podcast in the first 3 minutes and then rattles off at least 7 practical tips. Kieran was a guest of PhysioFirst (UK) when BJSM interviewed him in April 2015. The 2017 PhysioFirst conference is on April 1-2 (2017!) in Nottingham ...
Apr 29, 2016•19 min
Eine Frage die Patienten, Therapeuten und Mediziner gleichermaßen beschäftigt. Keller Matthias und Ekaterina Sandakova. Ob Freizeitsportler oder Profiathlet - nach einer Verletzung stellt sich dem Sportler immer die gleiche Fragen. „Wann kann ich wieder zurück zu meinem Sport?“ Auch für Therapeuten und Mediziner ist es schwierig, diese Frage klar zu beantworten. Es zeichnet sich aber ab, dass Tests, welche komplexe Funktionen prüfen und sportartspezifische Belastungen simulieren als Entscheidung...
Apr 28, 2016•12 min
The BJSM community wants practical tips and this podcast earns 10/10 for that feature. The guest, @DarrenBurgess25 is an international leader in working in sports medicine/sports science at the highest level. BJSM Associate Editor Paul Visentini (@PaulVisentini) asks great questions. 1. How do you bring the evidence into your practical job at High Performance Manager at Port Adelaide Football Club (Australian Rules Football) (1 minute in) 2. The art from a master. What are the clinical features ...
Apr 22, 2016•12 min
A recent keynote speaker at the Return to Play conference in Bern, the Arsenal FC Sport and Exercise Medicine Conference and the Isokinetic Football Medicine Strategies Return to Play conference in London, Clare Ardern is an emerging voice in sports medicine research. She currently occupies a postdoctoral position in the research department at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital, after doing the bulk of her research at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Her work focuses on the factors inf...
Apr 14, 2016•16 min
Dr Emma K Stokes is the President of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy. The first two parts of her discussion with the BJSM community has already had >9,000 listeners in just two months. In this part she previews the excitement of the IFOMPT Conference (Glasgow, July 2016), opportunities for sports physiotherapist to develop their careers. @EKStokes closes with 3 take-home messages including one slightly quirky one. Thanks to James Walsh (@SportsOsteopath) BJSM podcast podcast assoc...
Apr 08, 2016•15 min
Il dottor Cristiano Eirale è un medico dello sport che lavora ad Aspetar, Qatar Orthopedic and Sport Medicine Center di Doha. In questo podcast interamente in italiano, discute con un misterioso intervistatore, la cui identità verrà rivelata alla fine del podcast stesso, sul congresso mondiale di pubalgia nello sportivo tenutosi nel novembre 2014 e sul Doha consensus sulla terminologia e sulle definizioni nella pubalgia dello sportivo. Links: Entire BJSM Theme Issue: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/...
Apr 08, 2016•15 min
The BJSM community is well aware of the interest in the role of training load on injury. Dr Dr Tim Gabbett, Dr Alex Kountouris and Dr to be Michael Drew share insights into the principles that underpin successful player management. They give specific examples from football codes and cricket at the elite level. They also discuss what clinicians who do not have access to the full raft of data-gathering technology can do to advise players how to monitor load. We thank Sports Physiotherapist Paul Vi...
Apr 01, 2016•19 min
Dr Anna Saw is in the Faculty of Health in the School of Exercise & Nut. Sci.at Deakin University’s Burwood Campus. Further reading: Monitoring the athlete training response: subjective self-reported measures trump commonly used objective measures: a systematic review - http://ow.ly/ZEkmA
Mar 18, 2016•22 min
Interview mit Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Ruedl (Innsbruck) Das Skifahren ist eine beliebte Freizeitsportart bei Groß und Klein, Alt und Jung, Anfänger und Könner und zieht jedes Jahr Millionen von Wintersportlern in die Berge auf die Skipisten. Doch wie groß ist das Verletzungsrisiko auf der Piste? Was sind die häufigsten Verletzungsursachen? Assistenz-Professor Dr. Gerhard Ruedl erörtert diese Fragen und mehr im Gespräch mit Dr. Markus Laupheimer (Associate Editor BJSM). Gerhard ist Experte für Unf...
Mar 11, 2016•23 min
Adam Gledhill (http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/adam-gledhill/) is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Leeds Beckett University. He has a terrific amount of experience in sport psychology in football at the elite level, particularly among top female football players. Adam (@Gleds13) shares the case of Joanna (pseudonym) who has returned from ACL injury but is losing confidence ahead of a major game. We learn which specific tools can be used to address psychological readiness an...
Mar 04, 2016•23 min
Dr Emma K Stokes (@ekstokes) is the President of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy. This is the second of three podcasts. Karim and Emma continue their discussion and touch on direct access to physiotherapy around the world, the changing role of the physiotherapist in the multi-disciplinary team, and best practice for dealing with social media as a professional.
Feb 19, 2016•21 min
Wie die Muenchener Klassifikation helfen kann, Athleten mit Muskelverletzungen besser zu behandeln Peter Ueblacker ist ein international renommierter Orthopäde und Sportmediziner, der als einer der Mannschaftsärzte in den Jahren 2009 bis 2015 eine lange und erfolgreiche Karriere beim FC Bayern München hatte . Er arbeitet in eigener Praxis mit Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt (http://ow.ly/U2mch ). BJSM Redakteur Dr Markus Laupheimer stellt die Fragen in deutscher Sprache. Inhalt (Zeit) 1: 00min - W...
Feb 15, 2016•15 min
Are you or your athletes in control of your ‘chimp’ (emotional, reactive part of your mind) at all times? We hear from Professor Steve Peters -- the brains behind ‘The Chimp Paradox’ and the much-heralded psychiatrist who has worked with the likes of Team Sky Cycling, Liverpool Football Club and the FA to improve athlete performance. Prof Peters explains the rationale for the seemingly simplistic model and shared example of how it can be applied in various sport settings. “The Chimp Paradox” has...
Feb 05, 2016•24 min
Dr Emma K Stokes (@ekstokes) is the President of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy. This is the first of 3 podcasts Timeline: 1:00m - A fascinating career journey – from student at Trinity College Dublin to President of the World Confederation. 4:00m - “You have to be yourself but you have to understand yourself. Leadership is about bringing people on a journey. Make sure you understand how other people see, or feel about, that journey” 5:00m - The organisation you work in plays a big ...
Jan 29, 2016•22 min
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) is the world’s largest primary care sports medicine organisation and one of BJSM’s 23 member societies. It provides authoritative education for the public as well as for athletes and health professionals. BJSM is proud to host AMSSM experts discussing the potentially life-threatening condition that is widely known as ‘The Female Athlete Triad’. Dr Elizabeth Joy (Salt Lake City) and Dr Aurelia Nattiv (UCLA, Los Angeles) are both researchers...
Jan 22, 2016•24 min
In this 9-minute podcast Zoe Harcombe asks whether dietary guidelines were based on evidence or whether there were other drivers. She summarises what was in the literature at the time the 1977 (US) and 1983 (UK) guidelines were created. Importantly, she highlights that food choices have major implications on the planet. The podcast was recorded in February 2015 – she was a keynote speaker at the Old Mutual 1st International Low Carb High Fat Health Summit 2015 hosted by Prof Tim Noakes & Kar...
Jan 15, 2016•9 min
Associate Professor Irfan Asif is Vice Chair of Academics and Research at the Greenville Health System and University of South Carolina. This podcast is unashamedly focused on the American Medical Society which we believe is the world’s largest member organisation for primary care sports medicine. For those of you wondering why it needed to be a ‘medical society for sports medicine’ (tautology?/redundancy?) the answer is that sports medicine is a broad field with many disciplines involved, so on...
Jan 15, 2016•10 min
Physiotherapist Dr Michael Skovdal Rathleff from the Research Unit for General Practice in Aalborg chats with Dr Dylan Morrissey from Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS trust and Dr. Christian Barton from the new sport and exercise medicine research centre at Latrobe University in Australia. Both Dylan and Christian are clinically active physiotherapists working on moving research from journal papers into the hands of people who can put it to practical use. They discuss the cha...
Jan 08, 2016•26 min
All clinicians aim to classify muscle injury classifications to guide treatment and predict return – it’s a hot topic. The British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification is one helpful classification system and Dr Noel Pollock explains to Dr Markus Laupheimer (BJSM) how and why the Classification developed, as well as why the (older) Munich classification was not ideal. Listen for tips on how this classification adds something special and is of practical value for treating your athletes with mus...
Dec 18, 2015•16 min
AMSSM has a series of podcasts (https://www.amssm.org/E-Learning.php) and here experts highlight the management of shoulder, elbow and knee pain with a focus on the declining role of corticosteroid injections. The sports physicians discuss other injection treatment options – PRP, prolotherapy and viscosupplementation where relevant. Keep the AMSSM’s 2016 Annual Meeting in mind – Registration opens on January 8th. It will be in Dallas, Texas, April 15-20, 2016. And the special AMSSM issue of BJSM...
Dec 10, 2015•34 min
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) is strongly committed to embedding Exercise is Medicine in the health of Americans. A member of the AMSSM’s leadership group is Associate Professor Irfan Asif, the Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of South Carolina Greenville. Our chat focuses on the practical aspects of Lifestyle Medicine – which is more than exercise medicine alone. You’ll hear about: (i) the patient’s ...
Dec 04, 2015•17 min
