Jennie Morton is a UCL Honorary Lecturer on the MSc in Performing Arts Medicine, and lectures for The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, Dance UK and many performing arts schools and teaching organisations. She also co-runs a dance school in Tring, Hertfordshire, and is a faculty member of The Wells Summer School with Dancers of the Royal Ballet. She still performs as a professional singer with the Manhattan Music. She speaks with James Walsh about the challenges of treating perfo...
Jun 26, 2014•21 min
Professor Lorimer Moseley holds the Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia as well as being a Professor of Neurosciences. He completed his PhD in 2002 and has both learned and shared wisdom at the Universities of Queensland, Sydney and Oxford before settling in Adelaide. He leads the Body in Mind Research Group and coauthored the best-selling ‘Explain Pain’. In this podcast he answers questions from Ebonie Rio, Department of Physiotherapy, Monash University, coveri...
Jun 13, 2014•29 min
Apophyseal injury in children and adolescents are common and usually respond to simple unloading interventions. But what is the underlying pathology and why do some children succumb and others not? And why do some apophyses become painful and others fail completely with a complete avulsion? Despite these questions it is an area that is under-researched and few people have a specific interest in this area. Listen to the insights of Dr Matthieu Sailly, who is a French sports physician who has expe...
Jun 10, 2014•22 min
Over-diagnosis, over-treatment and industry influence. Surely not in sports medicine? Ray Moynihan is an internationally renowned contributor in the battle to limit any inappropriate influence of pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and technology companies on good clinical practice. He shares his concerns about the role of drug/implant companies but also argues that clinicians may well be contributing to suboptimal care – almost subconsciously. This is relevant for conditions such as femoroacetabular im...
May 23, 2014•30 min
Here’s the podcast that over 12,000 listeners have been demanding – physiotherapist Adam Meakins (@TheSportsPhysio)on a number of controversial topics, including: Is diagnostic palpation accurate? Can the sacroiliac joint really be ‘unstable’? How does ‘touch’ in physiotherapy have its therapeutic effect? Adam provides great value on Twitter and on his blog – here you can listen to him in your favourite podcast setting. Adam shares his way of explaining neural pain to patients and that alone is ...
May 22, 2014•24 min
Integrating athlete care – ‘one stop shop’ to optimize athlete care - sports medicine with a focus on PERFORMANCE. Dr Paul Dijkstra has vast experience in elite track and field athlete care. He shares his experience from UK Athletics – the team won 4 gold medals at the London Olympic Games. What’s new in this approach? This model of athlete care emphasises the partnership among not only the health professionals, but also with the strength and conditioning team and the coach(es). Also emphasised ...
May 22, 2014•21 min
Isabel van Obergen and Hannes Cleppe discuss their prevention platform for sports: a software program (SpartaNova) that is in the ‘e-Health’ category for physiotherapy and sports medicine. We begin with an obvious competing interest disclaimer. BJSM has no financial interest or association with SpartaNova. Because clinicians use specific products, such as ‘Theraband’ ® for example, BJSM will report on the utility of such products while being open about any competing interests. Have you considere...
May 21, 2014•13 min
With Rob Swire (Manchester United) and Stijn Vandenbroucke (Moscow Dynamo). ‘You always start off the season with a masterplan of what you are wanting to do but we’ve never had a master plan that works or goes anywhere near where it is supposed to, but you just try your best’. Given this validation of what you are doing, listen and see how you CAN make prevent injuries and improve team performance by working as a team with your other health professional as well as strength and conditioning colle...
May 21, 2014•14 min
Rob Swire has had 22 years of experience at Manchester United. BJSM asked him ‘How do you screen a professional football team pre-season?’ He shares how it’s done, as well as the challenges of being a team clinician and struggling to keep up with continuing education. In the most recent season, Manchester United have moved to include a software package to simplify their screening data entry, risk calculation and the offer of advice as to what might be appropriate exercises in specific settings. ...
May 21, 2014•15 min
Are you an exercise advocate? Dr Mike Loosemore, leader of the ‘Exercise is Medicine’ task force in the UK shares recent advances in this field. He spearheaded a most successful conference in that topic in 2013 and shares highlights with BJSM Editor Karim Khan. He previews the 2014 Exercise Medicine conference which you can catch at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on Friday June 20 and Saturday June 21. Keynote speakers include Professors Steven Blair and Greg Whyte. Here is the link for...
Apr 28, 2014•18 min
This 12-minute podcast relates to a special 2013 Consensus Meeting on Anti-Doping in Sports & its summary in BJSM’s Special Issue on Anti-Doping (May 2014). On November 29, 2013, FIFA hosted a meeting of representatives from key Anti-Doping stakeholders. Represented were sports physicians, athletes, legal experts, biomedical scientists, as well as leadership of international sports federations, the IOC and the Word Anti-Doping Agency. To take a ‘giant leap' forward in the battle to ensure a ...
Apr 09, 2014•13 min
Professor Philippe Neyret from Lyon, France, is a renowned sports orthopaedic surgeon. Following from his talk at the Isokinetic Football Medicine Conference in Milan, BJSM editor Karim Khan reached him via mobile phone. Prof Neyret discusses patellar dislocation in the setting of football and explains that certain anatomic variations (including trochlea dysplasia) make the condition more likely to occur. For players who have suffered patellar dislocation, next steps are not straightforward. Pro...
Apr 07, 2014•5 min
Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, AMSSM members discuss the recently published 'Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports: A Position Statement from the AMSSM' with statement authors Dr John DiFiori, Dr Joel S Brenner and Dr Neeru Jayanthi. Read the statement: http://goo.gl/lczEHo Please feel free to contact us at thesportsmedcast@gmail.com regarding this or any other Sports Medcast....
Mar 27, 2014•38 min
Dr Alex Kountouris is the physiotherapist or the Australian men’s cricket team, a position he has held for 8 years. He has just completed his PhD on the relationship between quadratus lumborum and lumbar stress fractures. In this podcast he discusses strategies for the prevention and treatment of lumbar spine injuries in cricket. The interesting questions posed to him come from our twitter followers, so hear his responses to your questions! See also: Biomechanics of lumbar spine injury in young ...
Feb 13, 2014•16 min
Dr Alex Kountouris tries to stay out of the limelight despite his position as physiotherapist to the Australian Men’s cricket team. Despite his attempts, he finds himself in the media talking about players’ injuries and the reasons behind their inclusion or exclusion from the team. Listen to him discuss injury prevention and treatment in cricket, and for the first time hear the questions posed by our twitter followers. See also: Batting head injury in professional cricket: a systematic video ana...
Feb 13, 2014•19 min
Dr Bert Mandelbaum is the team doctor for Team USA (soccer), the LA Galaxy, and Director of Research for Major League Baseball. He shares his optimism about the role of PRP in various injuries, while cautioning that stem cells, despite their promise, may still be like a ‘Ferrari without a steering wheel’. He was a pioneer in ACL prevention research and believes that programs successful in women may well translate across to men in sport such as NFL football. He takes 2 questions from @BJSM_BMJ Tw...
Feb 11, 2014•23 min
Dr Jonathan Drezner, BJSM Senior Associate Editor (Sports Cardiology) is the team physician for Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League. Speaking in the week after his team’s first Super Bowl appearance, he shares thoughts with Karim Khan about a typical week at the Seahawks, the season’s climax in New Jersey, and what budding sports medicine clinicians might do if aspiring to work in the top levels of professional sport. Off the playing field, Professor Drezner served as President of A...
Feb 10, 2014•25 min
After a patient has undergone ACL surgery, rehabilitation is bread and butter in many physiotherapy/sports medicine clinics. Many BJSM podcast listeners will be expert in this role. If you are less expert and wondering if there is an ‘optimum’ way to guide the patient back to sport, Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller provides some food for thought. He discusses some novel ways of assessing a patient’s progress after ACL reconstruction, advocates for the use of video in the clinic, and shares the dynamic te...
Jan 27, 2014•23 min
Julien Périard is a Canadian research scientist. After racing on the International Triathlon Union Circuit, he completed a PhD at the University of Sydney, investigating the mechanisms that limit prolonged exercise in the heat. He continues to be intrigued by the mechanisms that mediate performance and fatigue in adverse conditions and is now based in Qatar, an ideal place conduct heat studies in athletes. In this podcast he talks about a study he led with tennis players competing in both hot (3...
Jan 23, 2014•24 min
Mark Huizinga, a Dutch judoka, is 5 time European and Olympic Champion. Mark won the gold medal in the men’s under 90 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and took bronze at both the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He retired after the 2008 Olympic Games and is currently national coach of the juniors in the Netherlands. In this podcast he talks to BJSM deputy editor Babette Pluim about the most memorable moment during his distinguished judo career, about the traditions in judo, dealing with injur...
Jan 14, 2014•19 min
If you have wondered about the connection between pain and pathology in tendons, this podcast is for you. In this new forum, a BJSM reader takes the hard questions to the experts, Chris Littlewood, who has expertise as a clinician and researcher in the rotator cuff, asks questions of Craig Purdam, who needs little introduction to you, and Ebonie Rio, who has expertise as a clinician in tendons and as a researcher in tendon pain. Listen to the answers on the complex nature of tendons and the rela...
Dec 12, 2013•28 min
In this podcast Glen Hagemann, a sports physician from Durban, South Africa, shares with you his two-year experience and lessons learned as President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA). One of the highlights of his presidency was the 15th Biennial SASMA congress held recently at the Wild Coast Sun, and for those of you who are interested in viewing the presentations, please click on https://www.dropbox.com/l/HcISe1tlrMdfzl8PioTiGb/invite to download these. Keynote speakers ...
Dec 12, 2013•14 min
Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor discuss practical tips on the use and safety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Please feel free to contact us at thesportsmedcast@gmail.com, and follow us on twitter twitter.com/sportsmedcast. See also: Read the article that Scott and Cole discuss - bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/17/1127 Use of NSAIDs in triathletes...
Dec 03, 2013•25 min
In a podcast that may be of most interest to our general practice audience, Professor James McCormack has had a longstanding passion for scrutinising study results. One of his roles has been evaluating drug company trials [therapeuticseducation.org] and recommending with the British Columbia Provincial Government reimburse patients for those drugs or not. One category of drugs he is expert is NSAIDs. In the podcast, he also explains why the science of nutrition resembles a smorgasbord of low qua...
Nov 14, 2013•24 min
Are you wondering how to best manage sports-related groin pain? In this 2nd of two podcasts by, Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller focuses on groin pain – particularly in football sports. He advocates a fresh look at the treatment and diagnosis of groin pain. In particular, he argues that the patient’s biomechanics can be best analysed using dynamic video capture systems. Dr Franklyn-Miller has published widely in sports medicine and his book, Clinical Sports Anatomy (2011), coauthored with Eanna Falvey ...
Nov 06, 2013•21 min
Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor present clinical pearls on several topics from the recent sports medicine literature. Please feel free to contact us at thesportsmedcast@gmail.com regarding this or any other Sports Medcast.
Oct 28, 2013•31 min
Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller is a renowned sports and exercise medicine physician whose background includes providing care to the UK Defence Forces and elite athletes. He has published widely in sports medicine and his book, Clinical Sports Anatomy (2011), coauthored with Eanna Falvey and Peter Brukner, is an international best-seller. In this podcast he shares secrets from 15 years of experience in treating runners and running injuries.
Oct 21, 2013•24 min
Karim Khan calls mechanotherapy “the most important fundamental concept that underpins rehabilitation exercises”. Listen to Karim explain that all exercise-based rehabilitation relies on the cells of the injured tissue sensing the exercise stimulus, converting that signal to protein synthesis, and repairing tissue. He explains why ‘rest doesn’t work’ and argues that mechanotherapy has substantial evidence in its favour. The process applies to all body tissues – to injuries / pathology in bone, m...
Oct 18, 2013•22 min
Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor discuss the practical considerations of concussion evaluation and management with Dr Jeffrey Kutcher, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, and the Director of Michigan NeuroSport. Please feel free to contact us at thesportsmedcast@gmail.com regarding this or any other Sports Medcast Further reading: Zurich consensus s...
Sep 24, 2013•37 min
This podcast comes together with the Dutch Sports Medicine Association edition of BJSM. Guest editor Hans Zwerver talks with Prof Ron Diercks, head of the Sports Medicine Center of the University Medical Center in Groningen, about the development of sports medicine research in the Netherlands and the Groningen Sport Science Institute. Ron discusses the impact of the expected recognition of Sports Medicine in the Netherlands and also comments on the shoulder consensus statement and of course the ...
Sep 11, 2013•11 min
