Why are groin injuries so difficult to manage? How has rehabilitation advanced over the years? In this BJSM podcast, we interview Professor Michael Callaghan, Professor of Physiotherapy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Head of Physical Therapies at MUFC. We discuss the pressures of dealing with groin injuries in a team environment, the use of 1%ers, and surgical options for dealing with the groin. Michael is involved with the organisation of the inaugural MUFC Conference starring expert...
Oct 20, 2017•11 min
This episode takes place from Surrey Sports Park, the training base of Harlequins Rugby Union. During the podcast, performance nutritionist David Dunne delves into the following topics with Dr Sean Carmody: -Managing weight loss safely in weight dependent sports (eg boxing, MMA) -Developing muscle mass appropriately in rugby union players -Nutritional considerations in the professional golfer In addition to his work with Harlequins, David has worked in several sports including Queens Park Ranger...
Oct 13, 2017•23 min
Michele Verroken is the founding director of Sporting Integrity, a consultancy which advises governing bodies about identifying, adopting and managing best practice procedures relating to risk, ethical and integrity standards and issues in sport. Formerly Director of Ethics and Anti-Doping at UK Sport, Michele has worked in elite sport for over thirty years. She currently works as an Anti-Doping advisor to the PGA European Tour and is Secretary of the Commonwealth Games Federation Medical Commis...
Oct 06, 2017•18 min
Respiratory conditions are often neglected in the world of sports medicine, so we’ve got two world leaders on a podcast, recorded at the famous Centre for Health & Human Performance in London, to enlighten us on respiratory conditions in sport. Our guests Dr James Hull is Consultant Respiratory Physician with a specialist expertise in assessing athletes with unexplained breathlessness. He is an invited member of the American Thoracic Society expert committee for Exercise Induced Bronchoconst...
Sep 29, 2017•22 min
Professor Jon Drezner is a family medicine physician from Seattle, USA with expertise in sports medicine and sports cardiology. He shares the new international criteria for electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation in athletes - these lead to a lower false positive rate while maintaining sensitivity. He clearly defines the key changes and what to look out for on an ECG. You can access the International ECG Criteria paper below and also check out the conference Prof. Drezner is organising in Seattle...
Sep 22, 2017•24 min
Angela Smith is an attending orthopaedist at Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for children, and Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics and Paediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She is the past president of the American College of Sports Medicine, and acts as a member of the Executive Committee of FIMS. She draws upon her extensive clinical experience of working with youth athletes to discuss with BJSM’s Liam West the hotly debated topic of early sports speciali...
Sep 15, 2017•17 min
AMSSM Podcast host Dr. Krystian Bigosinski is joined by Dr. Alessio Fasano, the W. Allan Walker Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as Dana Lis, RD, PhD, owner of Summit Sports Nutrition in Vancouver, British Columbia. Topics of conversation include the definition of gluten and FODMAPs and their potential role in leading to both gastrointestinal and constitutional symptoms in ath...
Sep 08, 2017•32 min
A respected global voice within Sports Physiotherapy, Phil Glasgow returns to the BJSM podcast to share his thoughts and expertise on loading for injury prevention and treatment. Phil has worked at numerous major international sporting events and was the Chief Physiotherapy Officer for Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympics. As Former Head of Sports Medicine at Sports Institute, Northern Ireland, he has amassed extensive experience in high performance sport working with elite athletes from a wide rang...
Sep 01, 2017•23 min
One of the most influential cardiologists in Britain and a world leading expert in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, Dr Aseem Malhotra is a brave advocate for public health initiatives. An award-winning NHS cardiologist, Dr Malhotra has successfully motivated leading academics, the media and politicians to make sugar reduction a health priority in the UK. His academic publications can be found in the BMJ and BJSM (see links below) and he is prominent in mainstream media. ...
Aug 25, 2017•25 min
Ian Needleman is a Professor of Restorative Dentistry at the Centre of Oral Health and Performance, University College London (UCL) Eastman Dental Institute. Prof Needleman is on a mission to combat poor oral health in athletes. Alongside his research team, he has proven oral healthcare at the elite level to be poor, that this leads to a decrease in performance and has suggested that oral health screening should be routine for athletes (link to these papers below). You can also check out, downlo...
Aug 18, 2017•8 min
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) podcast is hosted by Dr Devin McFadden (Sports Medicine Fellow, Washington D.C) is your host. He chats with Dr Bert Fields (Sports Medicine Physician, Greensborough, North Carolina), Dr Robert Oh (Sports M edicine, Fort Benning, Georgia) and Dr Chad Asplund (Athletic Sports Medicine, Georgia Southern University). In this podcast (part 2 of 2), the experts on running injuries discuss: •What is the role of motion control shoes? •What factors...
Aug 11, 2017•20 min
Dr Boris Gojanovic (@DrSportSante) is a specialist sports medicine physician and a board member of the Swiss Sports Medicine Society. In addition to his Sports Medicine training, he is certified in Internal Medicine (General Medicine). In this chat about paediatric sports development, training and injuries he shares tips on interdisciplinary management of concussion, knee injuries. He tackles hip pain including that related to femoroacetabular impingement. He reveals his lessons from working as ...
Aug 04, 2017•19 min
Andy Nicholettos @sportinjuryandy is co-founder and head of sports medicine at Prevail Golf Performance, a specialist academy that blends golf coaching, sports medicine and strength and conditioning practice. Andy is also the author of “a movement in golf performance”. Aside from golf, Andy is the clinical lead at the Pain Clinic Oxford. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the application of pain science to sports performance, and has contributed to literature spanning exercise phy...
Jul 28, 2017•19 min
New York physiotherapist Dr Karen Litzy @KarenLitzyNYC, host of physio podcast 'Healthy Wealth and Smart' poses the practical questions to Dublin’s Dr Marie-Elaine Grant. Dr Grant has been Ireland’s Olympic Team Chief Physiotherapist since 1992 and Chief Physiotherapist with the IOC Medical Commission for the London 2012 Games. The discussion includes: •Whether to tape or brace or not •For how long should an athlete use tape or brace? •If the athlete is superstitious? Is it OK to keep taping for...
Jul 21, 2017•25 min
Prof. Roald Bahr is the Head of the Aspetar Sports Injury & Illness Prevention Programme, Chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and a member of the IOC medical committee. Prof. Bahr’s main research area is the prevention of injury and illness in athletes, and has published more than 200 papers and book chapters. In this podcast he talks to BJSM's Dr. Liam West about his views on musculoskeletal screening - why it doesn't work and probably never will. You can access his review paper...
Jul 14, 2017•13 min
Jo Gibson is a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist at the Liverpool Upper Limb Unit based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK. She lectures both nationally and internationally about rehabilitation of the shoulder. Her research interests are shoulder instability and motor learning. Jo is currently Squad Physiotherapist for the Great Britain Endurance riding Team.
Jul 07, 2017•25 min
Dr. Jeremy Lewis is a Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Musculoskeletal Research (University of Limerick, Ireland). Originally born in New Zealand, he trained in Australia before moving to England where he now works in both the Public (NHS) and Private sectors. Dr. Lewis has distinguished himself and become a globally respected voice in the area complex shoulder issues in both clinical and research capacities. This podcast has been adapted from one originally published by our friends K...
Jun 30, 2017•23 min
Assistant Professor Dr Fiona Wilson is a Chartered Physiotherapist in the discipline of Physiotherapy, Trinity College, Ireland. She has over 25 years of clinical experience in the UK, South Africa and Ireland. She has worked with elite and international athletes throughout her career and was Lead Physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland for 10 years. Her research has focused on sport and exercise medicine with a special focus on rowing and back pain and recently in rugby and concussion. She is editor...
Jun 23, 2017•21 min
Struggling with swimmers and their shoulders? It’s something we clinicians struggle with, and have been for a long time. Today we’re gonna take this head on, how we can move the model from external impingement to anterior superior internal impingement (ASII). We are joined on this BJSM podcast with Andrew Delbridge and Craig Boetcher from Australia. Craig completed his PhD through Sydney University examining shoulder EMG back in 2010. He’s been the physiotherapist for the Australian swim team fo...
Jun 16, 2017•22 min
Joining us for this BJSM podcast is the vastly experienced, Dr Roger Hawkes. We chat to him about a wide range of issues, from his role as CMO to the European Golf Tour - where he has built an incredible service, and provided incredible quality of care to the world’s best golfers – to common golfing injuries, and how to assess them. We also touch on the innovative work being done that is looking into the health benefits of golf, and the challenges of working in such a dynamic, and multi-discipli...
Jun 09, 2017•25 min
Are you confused about healthy nutrition, the role of insulin, this concept of ‘insulin resistance’? Can one largely ignore a macronutrient (i.e. carbohydrates) and not drop dead within a few days? Karim Khan, the Editor in Chief of the BJSM vouches for this podcast personally and describes Dr Hallberg as one of the people that has most influenced his understanding of a key medical concept. In addition to Dr Hallberg’s popular (nearing 2 million views!) TEDx talk https://youtu.be/da1vvigy5tQ Her...
Jun 02, 2017•22 min
Whilst at the 2017 IOC Prevention of Injury & Illness Conference, BJSM’s Liam West spoke to a key figure within the concussion research world, Associate Professor Kathryn Schneider. Kathryn is a Clinical Specialist in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy working at the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre located at the University of Calgary, Canada. She was the lead author in the landmark RCT look at cervicovestibular rehabilitation in sport-related concussion in 2014 (link below). Her most rec...
May 26, 2017•14 min
Ahead of the Finnish Sports Physiotherapy Congress (June 9 and 10, 2017), BJSM editor in chief Karim Khan, chats with the senior author of a study that proved that partial removal of a degenerative torn meniscus does not alleviate mechanical symptoms when compared with sham surgery. That was Teppo Järvinen (http://bit.ly/2rlfW5I), professor of orthopaedics and traumatology at the University of Helsinki and a speaker at the Finnish Congress in June. Before that study (link below), orthopaedists w...
May 19, 2017•23 min
Doping ist immer ein heisses Thema, besonders in Jahren der Olympischen und Paralympischen Spiele. Dr Markus Laupheimer (London/Zürich) stellt die Fragen in deutscher Sprache an Prof. Dr. Patrick Diel. Patrick ist Professor an der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln am Institut für Kreislaufforschung und Sportmedizin, Abteilung Molekulare und Zelluläre Sportmedizin. Er hat ein spezielles Interesse an präventiver Dopingforschung und beantwortet uns einige interessante Fragen: - Was ist Doping? - Wo li...
May 12, 2017•11 min
Britain's leading anti-sugar campaigner and one of the most prolific doctors in the world influencing obesity thinking and highlighting the harms of too much medicine. In addition to being a Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Malhotra is a member of the board of trustees of UK health think tank, The King’s Fund and a member of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Choosing Wisely Steering Group Here’s the link to his website: http://doctoraseem.com/biography/ Topics covered include: No association of s...
May 12, 2017•25 min
What is rhabdomyolysis? Can it sneak under a clincian’s radar? What the key clinical features? When to be alert for rhabdomyolysis Problems when coaches are too aggressive with a new load Two cases – clinical scenarios When sickle cell trait complicates matters Which athlete with sickle cell trait is at increased risk? Can clinicians identify the athlete with sickle cell trait who is at risk of death? To screen or not to screen. Ethics and science. Who is ready to return to play? Who is at risk ...
May 05, 2017•18 min
Dr Jonathan Finnoff, DO, is the Medical Director for Mayo Clinic Square, Sports Medicine Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. He benefits from his experience as a former professional athlete in his work as the Team Physician for professional basketball teams -- the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx. Dr Finnoff addresses the case of a 24 year old basketball player who has calf pain that stops her from playing but responds re...
Apr 28, 2017•17 min
BJSM’s good friend Fran O’Connor is Director of Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a former President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM, @theAMSSM). He also held leadership positions in the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Athletic Association. He is a prolific researcher with more than 60 scientific journal publications, 25 book chapters and numer...
Apr 28, 2017•19 min
How has football medicine changed in the past 10 years? What is its future? Mike Davison, managing director of Isokinetic Medical Group in London, one of the FIFA medical centers of excellence, gives us an excellent overview of football medicine: past, present and future. In this hard-hitting podcast we also preview the upcoming Isokinetic Conference in Barcelona, where representatives from over 88 countries are attending. Topics discussed in this podcast include: -Where has football medicine co...
Apr 21, 2017•19 min
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) has its Annual Meeting come up (May 8-13, 2017) so we celebrate with this podcast. Dr Devin McFadden (Sports Medicine Fellow, Washington D.C) is your host. He chats with Dr Bert Fields (Sports Medicine Physician, North Carolina), Dr Robert Oh (Sports medicine, Fort Benning, Georgia) and Dr Chad Asplund (Athletic Sports Medicine, Georgia Southern University) Topics discussed include: •Common mistakes made by amateur running athletes – train...
Apr 13, 2017•22 min
