Cerebral Palsy (CP) Football in the UK gives players the opportunity to develop individual skills within a team environment, encased in an impairment competitive structure. The football programme contributes to the development of the England Cerebral Palsy Regional and National Squads, through talent identification with the goal to provide player performance pathway for elite performers, and also to provide participation opportunities for players of all abilities. Dr Osman Ahmed (@osmanhahmed) h...
Dec 02, 2014•18 min
Bob Sallis is a family physician and sports medicine expert who encourages his patients to take charge of their health by exercising. With a passion for prevention, he lends his voice to the Every Body Walk Campaign and is an avid supporter and advocate of the Exercise is Medicine initiative of the ACSM. And Bob literally "walks the walk": he walks (or runs) every day! He tells us about the Exercise is Medicine initiative, talks about dosing (and overdosing!) of exercise, discusses the role of t...
Nov 27, 2014•13 min
Dr Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband is surgeon and Chief Medical Officer of the London 2012 Olympic Team from the Netherlands and is on the Dutch Olympic Committee. Cees-Rein has worked for more than 25 years in soccer as the team doctor of football club PSV and is still responsible for their medical policies. He has been awarded a PhD on diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of inversion trauma of the ankle joint. He is also chairperson of the FINA medical commission and the father of Olympic Champion...
Nov 21, 2014•13 min
Associate Professor Grethe Myklebust, physiotherapist and PhD from the Olympic Training Centre in Norway, was one of the pioneers to investigate the role of exercise for ACL prevention. To discuss her research with her is Jodie McClelland from La Trobe University. Jodie’s experience is in the biomechanics of the knee in the normal and injured state, and she has the knowledge to extract the best information from Grethe about her research and its impact on the clinical management of those with, an...
Nov 14, 2014•25 min
Do you struggle to change your own behaviour? Do you find it hard to get ‘motivated’ or to motivate others? The opening keynote lecture at the tremendous Sports Medicine Australia conference (2014) addressed these issues and gave solutions. Prof Stuart Biddle is the Professor of Physical Activity & Health at Victoria University, Melbourne Australia. He is a recent ‘Aussie’ and a longtime leader at Loughborough University in the UK. In this podcast you will be exposed to the current day think...
Nov 07, 2014•24 min
Emeritus Professor Renström, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, covers a wide range of topics while talking to BJSM Deputy Editor Babette Pluim. He discusses Lars Peterson's and his book on sports injuries, shares his 24-yr experience with the IOC medical commission, looks back on his time as Professor of Orthopedics in Vermont, explains the importance of periodisation in professional tennis, and analyses the role of the ATP, STMS and ITF in improving the medical care of tennis players ...
Nov 03, 2014•24 min
Prof Mario Maas is professor of radiology, in particular musculoskeletal radiology, at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam. His focus of research includes joint and tendon disorders, muscle pathology and sports imaging and he is a regular contributor to the BJSM I-test series. Mario Maas explains the essence of sports imaging and what information a sports physician should include to make his referral note even more useful. He describes what he wants his students, fellows and young doctors t...
Oct 24, 2014•13 min
In this podcast James Walsh talks with professional mixed martial artist (MMA) and osteopath Rosi Sexton. They discuss performance enhancing drug use within MMA, the challenges of promoting a new sport to the public, and training and injury within MMA.
Oct 17, 2014•25 min
In this podcast James Walsh talks with Dr Shabaaz Mughal Tottenham Hotspurs team docor and Dr Ian Beasley Medical director of the FA about head injuries in football. They discuss the new concussion protocols that have come in this season, rule changes and the FA’s “Use your head campaign”. http://www.thefa.com/news/2014/aug/head-injuries-in-football
Oct 10, 2014•25 min
With over twenty years' experience, accreditation in Sports Physiotherapy, and a recent PhD in the topic of lateral hip pain, Alison Grimaldi (@AlisonGrimaldi) was invited to this podcast by BJSM’s Twitter community. She is a popular conference speaker internationally. Here she walks you through each step of the assessment and treatment of an older patient with right hip pain. She then shares how to assess and treat a younger sportsperson. In both cases, Dr Grimaldi emphasizes that compression i...
Oct 06, 2014•28 min
This is a podcast by Dr Robert-Jan de Vos, sports physician in the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands, with Guustaaf Reurink, who is a registrar in Sports medicine in the Netherlands and is currently finishing his thesis on diagnosis and treatment of acute hamstring injuries. Recently, he published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine about the role of Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) treatment for acute hamstring injuries (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1402340). We start ...
Sep 02, 2014•18 min
Are you old enough to remember the storm when Jenny McConnell first proposed new exercise and taping procedures for patellofemoral pain (PFP)? It revolutionised rehabilitation for the many sufferers of the condition and it promoted much-needed research. So do we still need to tape and focus on the vastus medialis? Professor Kay Crossley of La Trobe University is a present-day expert in PFP, having completed several key RCTs on patellofemoral pain. She discusses (i) the outcomes of the 3rd Intern...
Aug 29, 2014•16 min
Dr G.M.M.J. (Gino) Kerkhoffs is professor of Orthopaedics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA), with a special emphasis on sports traumatology. Grading of muscle injuries should have a big influence on time to return to sport but it’s not so easy! Babette Pluim asks Prof Kerkhoffs how the Munich Consensus Statement of terminology and classification of muscle injuries in sport was developed. And what are the practical implications for clinicians? Prof Kerkhoffs also...
Aug 26, 2014•16 min
Dr Gino Kerkhoffs is professor of Orthopaedics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam (AMC-UvA), with a special emphasis on sports traumatology. He shares his expertise on ankle injuries with Dr Babette Pluim, and discusses evidence based treatment options of ankle impingement, ligament injuries and osteochondral lesions. Prof Kerkhoffs also discusses treatment of the slow healing metatarsal V stress fractures. See also: Economic evaluations of diagnostic tests: treatment and ...
Aug 26, 2014•21 min
Peter O’Sullivan has two recent BJSM podcasts (see below). In this podcast he shares his thoughts on the recent media attention around Tiger Woods' obvious back pain while playing in the US PGA. He discusses what the pathology might be, why the media suggested that Mr Woods’ ‘sacrum went out’. He contends that ‘core strengthening’ may not be the panacea. The lessons apply to the management of low back pain, and other pain, in a myriad of settings. See also Read Professor O'Sullivan's blog on Tig...
Aug 22, 2014•27 min
Professor Michael Kjaer is Professor in Sports Medicine at the Institute of Sports Medicine and Centre for Healthy Ageing in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published articles in the areas of Sports Medicine and muscle and tendon adaptation at the structural and mechanical levels as well as at the cellular and molecular level. Michael is interested in mechanisms of adaptations to muscle and tendon following exercise, disuse, disease and ageing. In this podcast on tendon and tendon pathology he gives...
Aug 19, 2014•24 min
Dr Ross Tucker is an Exercise Physiologist and High Performance Sports Science Consultant. He obtained a PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Cape Town in 2006, and graduated at the same time with a Post-Graduate in Sports Management from the Faculty of Commerce. Ross is hot on social media, with a cool website (http://www.sportsscientists.com), over 12.000 likes on Facebook, and more than 40.000 twitter followers (he's @Scienceofsport ). In this podcast with Babette Pluim he gives ...
Aug 13, 2014•22 min
In one of 2014’s ‘highlight’ podcasts, New York Times best-selling author David Epstein simplifies genetics and explains that intricate relationship between nature and nurture. David Epstein’s research took him to all corners of the globe and you’ll hear about ‘Superbaby’ (a newborn with muscles sculpted like a powerlifter), ‘A tale of two high jumpers’ (no hints, spoiler alert), and a person whose genes drove her to exercise so much that she had to talk to David on her cellphone while running a...
Aug 01, 2014•22 min
If you enjoyed Part 1 of David Epstein’s BJSM podcast listen to this one to hear about the genetic contribution to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the reason it is so hard to detect in all cases, and real life choices that some players made when offered genetic screening opportunities. We finish by discussing whether an Olympic cross-country ski champion with a hematocrit of 65 is a blood-doper or the carrier of an unusual single-gene mutation. I learned a great deal from David Epstein in both podc...
Aug 01, 2014•15 min
Professor Jan Ekstrand is orthopedic surgeon and vice-chairman of the UEFA medical committee. He is professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been team physician of the Swedish National Soccer team. Since 1982, professor Ekstrand has been running prospective studies related to the epidemiology of sports injuries in football. Since 2001, he has carried out EUFA injury audits in elite professional football with the aim of increasing safety in football through pros...
Jul 29, 2014•24 min
Professor Jan Ekstrand is orthopedic surgeon and vice-chairman of the UEFA medical committee. He is professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been team physician of the Swedish National Soccer team. Since 1982, professor Ekstrand has been running prospective studies related to the epidemiology of sports injuries in football. Since 2001, he has carried out EUFA injury audits in elite professional football with the aim of increasing safety in football through pros...
Jul 29, 2014•24 min
Did you listen to Ray Moynihan’s podcast on ‘’Overdiagnosis in sports medicine”? That’s a ‘gold’ podcast (>5000 listens) and Peter O’Sullivan now extends those ideas into the realm of sports physiotherapy. “We can massively create health problems” warns Prof O’Sullivan speaking about the way clinicians may explain pathology to patients. If not explained appropriately, MRI and other imaging can have a negative effect on a patient’s perception of injury. Pete refers to this free paper in RADIOL...
Jul 25, 2014•11 min
Who are the biggest names in the back pain world? Correct – Peter O’Sullivan is one of them. He's provocative, clinically-relevant, and vastly experienced. He’s desperate to help patients, that’s obvious! But not everyone has to agree. Listen to his take on management of both chronic, and acute, back pains – does it make sense to you? Peter O’Sullivan is Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Curtin University, Perth, (http://goo.gl/Dk6beV)and a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist ...
Jul 25, 2014•20 min
In this concise, information-rich BJSM podcast, sports cardiologist Aaron Baggish shares his expertise on the critical issue of sudden cardiac death in sport. He explains how to determine which ECG changes in athletes are sinister and which may not be (such as right bundle branch block). He argues for a detailed screening program for elite athletes and gives advice for those whose care is not covered by a professional sporting organization. The Boston Marathon has provided valuable lessons for w...
Jul 15, 2014•11 min
Irene Davis is a renowned biomechanics clinician and scientist. Barefoot running has been one of her areas of focus and she co-authored the Nature paper that received cover attention and created mainstream attention to that topic. She and first author Dr Patrick McKeon, conceived of the idea of a foot ‘core’; if certain foot muscles act as a core it has immediate implications for management in clinical practice. Listen to Professor Davis and see the linked paper (below). Let us know if you agree...
Jul 14, 2014•21 min
The most prevalent condition diagnosed in most sports medicine clinics is patellofemoral pain. Professor Irene Davis is one of the world’s leading physiotherapists and researchers who addresses this issue. She’s a regular keynote speaker at major international conferences. In this BJSM podcast she shares her approach to assessing the patient with patellofemoral pain. From this basis she outlines a range of therapeutic options. Professor Davis was a catalyst for the International Patellofemoral P...
Jul 14, 2014•29 min
Dr Shabaaz Mughal and Geoff Scott from Tottenham Hotspurs join James Walsh to talk about how to get into working in elite football, the multi-disciplinary team working environment in elite sport, concussion, Fabrice Muamba and cardiac arrest, as well as the Fifa 11+ and injury prevention. See also: A pilot study examining injuries in elite gaelic footballers: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/34/2/104.full The FIFA medical emergency bag and FIFA 11 steps to prevent sudden cardiac death: setting a glob...
Jul 10, 2014•26 min
Jon Patricios, President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) and editor of BJSM July 2014, Volume 48, Issue 14, chats to Dr Josep "Chuck" Cakic, a renowned Croatian-born South African Hip Arthroscopist, chair of the South African Society for Hip Arthroscopy (SASHA) and an executive member of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA). They discuss key issues regarding hip injuries in sport, accurate diagnosis and selecting patients for surgery. See also: Hip Stage S...
Jul 08, 2014•26 min
This podcast logically follows (Part 1) below but it stands alone as well. Painful hip and groin pain requires a careful history looking for aggravating factors and risk factors, as well as targeted physical examination including but not limited to the hip and groin. Duke University’s Associate Prof Mike Reiman shares specific tips for both assessing, and rehabilitating, the patient with hip and groin pain. See also: Jo Kemp, Kay Crossley, Ewa Roos. What fooled us in the knee may trip us up in t...
Jul 02, 2014•15 min
Managing the athlete with hip stiffness detected at a physical exam or in a PPE is one of the hottest topics of 2014. Some would argue that nothing needs to be done given that the patient is asymptomatic but on the other hand many orthopaedic papers argue for ‘preventive’ osteotomy. Is this ‘overdiagnosis’ and ‘overtreatment’? Mike Reiman is a highly respected clinician-academic and he has integrated the literature on this topic with his clinical expertise. A ‘must’ podcast for physiotherapists,...
Jul 02, 2014•17 min
