Our guest for this podcast is Professor Greg Whyte, one of the world’s most respected and renowned Sport & Exercise Scientists. Greg combines his academic position at Liverpool John Moores University with both public & private work around the UK, and is a hugely respected scientist and voice, with expertise in a wide range of domains. Not content with overseeing breathtaking Sport Relief challenges and helping to raise >£30m for charity, he has recently published a book titled ‘Bump I...
Feb 01, 2019•24 min
Did you know that up to 3.8 million sports-related concussions occur in the USA annually? As the largest membership organisation representing sports medicine physicians in North America, the AMSSM is perfectly placed to provide advice and guidance to clinicians who are expected to manage every stage of the concussion spectrum. On this week’s episode, Prof Kimberly Harmon (T: @DrKimHarmon) returns for another podcast and joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (T: @ddfriedman) to discuss the upcoming update...
Jan 25, 2019•21 min
Traditionally, sports medicine may have focussed on joints and tendons and muscles, but, as with medicine more widely, nutrition is now being properly recognised as an essential aspect of health. Food is a very strong lever to improve human health and environmental sustainability on earth. However, food is currently threatening both people and planet. The food we eat, the ways we produce it, and the amounts wasted or lost affect us all – athletes, patients and clinicians. On this BJSM podcast Pr...
Jan 21, 2019•17 min
Is it possible to support small, individual clinicians with an interest for research, while also encouraging collaborative research from major medical centers and teaching hospitals? These topics and others are explored on this episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast. Host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD is joined by a panel which includes Dr. Anthony Beutler, MD, Dr. Andrew Peterson, MD, and Dr. Stephanie Kliethermes, PhD who help form a portion of the AMSSM’s Collaborative Research Network leadership. They...
Jan 18, 2019•14 min
We have known for a long time that exercise is effective in lowering blood pressure. But how does it stack up against antihypertensive medication? On this episode, Dr. John Ioannidis joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (T: @ddfriedman) to discuss his recently published BJSM meta-analysis that made headlines around the world https://bit.ly/2EYW66J Dr Ioannidis is recognised as one the most influential scientists alive today. A Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford Universit...
Jan 11, 2019•15 min
Did you know that fewer than 15% of women will actually achieve the minimum recommendation of 150 min per week of moderate-intensity physical activity throughout their pregnancy? Meeting the recommendation can reduce the risk of pregnancy-related illness such as depression by at least 25%, and the risk of developing gestational diabetes, hypertension and preeclampsia by 40%! So why are some clinicians still scared to prescribe physical activity to soon-to-be-mums? On this week’s episode, Dr. Mar...
Jan 04, 2019•20 min
Did you know that one in four people have hypertension? And with recent changes to diagnostic criteria in major clinical practice guidelines, the prevalence is only going to increase. With concerns about the cost, effectiveness, and potential for side effects of antihypertensive drugs, isn’t it time we looked beyond the pharmacy shelves to lower blood pressure? On this episode, Dr. Huseyin Naci PhD (T: @huseyinnaci2) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (T:@ddfriedman) to discuss his recently published ...
Dec 19, 2018•21 min
Host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD is joined by Dr. Lisa Fortier, DVM, PhD on the AMSSM Sports Medcast to discuss regenerative medicine technologies and the current evidence for their use. Dr. Fortier is a Professor of Surgery at Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, New York, with a particular interest in translational research including the prevention of post- traumatic osteoarthritis. In addition, her internationally renowned research investigates the clinical application of ...
Dec 07, 2018•15 min
What should we eat in order to stay healthy and avoid disease? Nutrition is one of the biggest drivers of chronic disease, including obesity and diabetes, yet the answer to this seemingly simple question remains a subject of heated debate. On this week’s episode, Dr. Zoë Harcombe (@zoeharcombe) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to address some common nutrition myths. Zoë has a PhD in public health nutrition. The full title of her thesis is: “An examination of the randomised controlled t...
Nov 30, 2018•37 min
Professor Jon Drezner, a world authority on Sports Cardiology and vastly experienced Sport & Exercise Medicine physician, kindly gives us his time on this BJSM podcast to fill us in on updates in the Sports Cardiology world. Covering everything from high-risk groups, to the subsequent management of ‘positive’ screening results, this podcast will ensure that the listener is very much up-to-date with the latest research & developments in Sports Cardiology. For more information & a deep...
Nov 23, 2018•21 min
Minimalist? Maximalist? Zero drop? Is there really one running shoe paradigm to rule them all? On this week’s episode, Dr. Chris Napier PhD (T: @runnerphysio) and Paul Blazey (T: @Blazey85) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (T:@ddfriedman) to debate running shoe prescription. Chris is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia, where he recently obtained his his PhD (“Running biomechanics and injury prevention”) in 2018. Since becoming a...
Nov 16, 2018•27 min
Is this a dysplasia problem? Or is this an impingement problem? Did you know that a young adult with a non-arthritic hip problem sees an average of 4.2 health care providers before a diagnosis of impingement is made?! On this week’s podcast, Dr J.W. Thomas Byrd MD (T:@nashvillehipmds) joins AMSSM’s Sports Medcast (T: @TheAMSSM) to discuss femoroacetabular impingement and hip dysplasia. Dr. Byrd founded the Nashville Hip Institute to help treat patients with complex hip disorders using advanced s...
Nov 09, 2018•19 min
Knowledge translation with Dr Sandro Demaio. Episode #354 There are over 1.5 million papers published each year…but as many as 50% of them are never read by anyone other than their authors, referees and journal editors. How can we move research from the laboratory, the academic journal, and the medical conference into the hands of people and organisations who can put it to practical use? On this week’s podcast, Dr Sandro Demaio (@SandroDemaio) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discus...
Nov 02, 2018•19 min
Management of shoulder pain has been estimated to account for 4.5 million visits to the doctor and $3bn (£2.3bn; €2.6bn) each year in the US alone. 44-70% of patients with shoulder pain are diagnosed with shoulder impingement syndrome. Although various non-operative treatment modalities are recommended as initial treatment for patients with shoulder impingement, subacromial decompression has become one of the most frequently performed orthopaedic procedures in the world...BUT DOES IT ACTUALLY HE...
Oct 19, 2018•14 min
We catch up with BJSM Deputy Editor, Physiotherapist and hugely influential researcher Mario Bizzini. We discuss everything from the evidence behind injury prevention programmes, maximising their implementation, and the upcoming #SportSuisse2018 Links below: JOSPT Clinical Guideline https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2018.0303 Knakentroll (Swedish Group) - https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2016/11/02/football-injuries-prevention-swedish-football-injury-warriors-martin-markus/ FIFA11+ https://bjsm....
Oct 12, 2018•16 min
Type 2 diabetes is a complex systems disease, caused by interactions between lifestyle and genes. It is an illusion to believe that it can be cured by medication. Lifestyle change should always be at the heart of treatment. Hanno Pijl is an internist-endocrinologist and professor of Diabetology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) In Leiden, The Netherlands. He co-authored over 250 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals, primarily related to obesity and type 2 diabetes. He has bee...
Oct 05, 2018•24 min
Do I really need this test, treatment or procedure? What are the downsides? What happens if I do nothing? And are there simpler, safer alternatives? Dr. Ray Moynihan (@raymoynihan) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the growing problem of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and what is being done to wind back the harms of too much medicine. Ray is an Australian academic, author and award-winning health journalist who completed his PhD on overdiagnosis in 2015 at the Centre for Re...
Sep 28, 2018•23 min
We were thrilled to catch up again with Dr Andrew Murray, the recently appointed Chief Medical Officer to the PGA European Tour, European Tour Performance Institute, and Ryder Cup Europe. He is universally known for his work promoting physical activity for health, his ultra-endurance challenges, and for leading the ‘Golf and Health project’. In this podcast he covers everything from the health benefits of golf, how to produce a consensus statement, the WHO’s GAPPA, to how to overcome various fac...
Sep 21, 2018•22 min
Contrary to the long held contention that low fat diets are best for people with type 2 diabetes (DM2), the totality of current evidence suggests that low carb diets are at least as effective in ameliorating metabolic health in DM2. In fact, low carb seems to be somewhat better, particularly in the short to medium term, although the evidence is of moderate certainty. On this week’s episode Prof Hanno Pijl (@HannoPijl) and dr Esther van Zuuren (@Ezzoef) join Dr Aseem Malhotra (@DrAseemMalhotra) t...
Sep 17, 2018•28 min
Did you know that the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016? In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults and more than 340 million children were classified as overweight or obese. At the individual level and in our modern, obesogenic world, weight gain has become the norm—the biological and social path of least resistance. On this week’s podcast, Dr Sandro Demaio (@SandroDemaio) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss childhood obesity and public health nut...
Sep 07, 2018•22 min
Is saturated fat good or bad? But doesn’t it cause cardiovascular disease? And what about the guidelines? On this week’s episode, Dr. Zoë Harcombe (@zoeharcombe) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the takeaways from The BMJ’s Food For Thought conference 2018 (https://www.bmj.com/food-for-thought) and the demonisation of dietary fats. Zoë has a PhD in public health nutrition. The full title of her thesis is: “An examination of the randomised controlled trial and epidemiological...
Aug 31, 2018•33 min
Did you know that a regular bottle of Gatorade contains 34g of sugar? That’s over 8 teaspoons of sugar! The WHO recommends that https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29735573
Aug 24, 2018•22 min
This heavyweight podcast is sure to be a knockout! On this week’s episode, sports medicine physician Dr. John Neidecker (@DrJohnNeidecker) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) in the ring to discuss the hot topics in combat sports today. Dr. Neidecker is a physician for USA Boxing and USA Taekwondo, and is the vice president for the Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) (http://www.ringsidearp.org/), an international non-profit organisation dedicated to the health and protection of boxe...
Aug 17, 2018•20 min
Fresh off ‘BJSM Podcast World Cup’ victory, superstar physiotherapist Dr. Alison Grimaldi returns for what is sure to be another chart-topping podcast. On this week’s episode, Dr. Alison Grimaldi (@alisongrimaldi) joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the results from her latest clinical trial – the LEAP trial - that was recently published in the BMJ. https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1662 With 25 years of clinical experience and particular expertise in the management of hip, ...
Aug 10, 2018•22 min
After listening to this one, you may want to think twice before reaching for that next bottle of kombucha! On this week’s podcast, microbiome expert Dr Patrick Hanaway joins BJSM’s Daniel Friedman (@ddfriedman) to discuss the implications of the gut microbiome for athlete health and performance. Dr Hanaway is a family physician who has served as the Director of Medical Education for the Institute for Functional Medicine, as well as the Medical Director at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Function...
Jul 27, 2018•22 min
In this podcast Katie Marino speaks to Jack Forsyth. Jacky Forsyth (@JackyForsyth) is a senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. She is a lead organiser of the Women in Sport and Exercise Conference. In this podcast Katie Marino (@krmarino1) speaks to Jacky about the difference in the amount of research done on exercise in women compared to exercise in men, and why we need to correct this imbalance. The research community needs to strengthen and promote research on women in sport and exercis...
Jul 20, 2018•10 min
Thanks to BJSM editorial board member Daniel Friedman (@DDFriedman), who has also served as in intern at the World Health Organization, for hosting this podcast. The BJSM’s guest is Professor Fiona Bull, MBE – Program Manager of WHO Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Management Team, Geneva, Switzerland. @fiona_bull The conversation gives the listener a 20-minute gem that covers the following points What is the global action plan? How was it developed? Why was this needed? How does it differ...
Jul 06, 2018•22 min
Thanks to Professor Lorimer Moseley for his 4th BJSM podcast over the last 4 years. Here he chats with final year medical student Daniel Friedman who is at the coalface (@DDFriedman). How are the terms pain, nociception and central sensitisation used? Are they taught accurately or poorly? All of us can learn from Lorimer as he clarifies these concepts. Professor Lorimer Moseley (PT, PhD) is Chair of Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia and a professor of Clinical Neurosciences. peo...
Jun 29, 2018•20 min
BJSM is one of very few channels that comments on food but doesn’t receive any funds from any food-related stakeholder. The BMJ doesn’t receive funds from food companies (as far as I know) and the new BMJ Open journal on nutrition doesn’t either. What about the ‘British Nutrition Foundation’ – sounds pretty helpful right? Well, it may be, but if you know where to click 5 times you can find that about 1/3 of its funding from corporate sponsors. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has food spon...
Jun 22, 2018•37 min
Damian Griffin is the Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Warwick. He trained in Cambridge, Oxford and the United States, and worked as a Consultant in Oxford before taking up the Foundation Chair in Warwick and helping to establish Warwick Medical School. Here’s a link to his personal website: http://www.hiparthroscopyclinic.co.uk/ He was the chief investigator for the FASHioN trial, a large, multicenter randomised controlled trial of treatments for people with FAI ...
Jun 15, 2018•18 min
