Are you involved in the care of athletes, and now planning their return to sport? Have you fully considered their cardiac health, especially in those with suspected/confirmed novel coronavirus infection? In this 15-minute podcast with Prof Jon Drezner, one of the world’s leading Sports Cardiologists & Team Physicians, we dive into some case-studies and some of the emerging evidence in this interesting area. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions! Additional resources: Link to ...
May 07, 2020•17 min
Host Dr. Giorgio Negron, MD is joined by Dr. Kenneth Mautner, MD on the AMSSM Sports Medcast to discuss orthobiologics, specifically PRP and stem cell treatments, and the current evidence for their use. Dr. Mautner is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Orthopedics Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. In this 20-minute conversation Dr. Mautner addresses the following topics: What is PRP and how did it become so popular in ...
May 01, 2020•19 min
In this Podcast, Dr Phil Hopley explains to Dr Will Wynter Bee the impact of the COVID crisis on athletes' mental health as well as discussing his role in setting up mental health services for the European tour. He also provides insights into how, clinically, he assesses and manages mental health conditions in elite athletes. Georgia Hopley discusses her research providing valuable insights into the prevalence of common mental health conditions in elite golfers. Useful links we discuss: Mental h...
Apr 24, 2020•23 min
Can we learn more from our patients than you might think? Do they hold the answers to the clinical question that you face? Dr. Osman Ahmed is an Associate Editor at BJSM, co-leading the “Patient Voices” section of the journal alongside Dr. Tracey Blake. Osman discusses how we can engage our patients/athletes to improve the clinical applicability of our research, and highlights some areas of medicine that have already benefited from this approach. Links of articles discussed on the podcast: https...
Apr 17, 2020•13 min
On the heels of a global pandemic, we have all been asked to quickly adapt to our new surroundings – in most cases our living room – and to carry on with delivering quality education. For many of us, this means scrambling to make our once classroom-based educational materials online-ready for the first time. Where do we begin? Dr. Erin Macri joins Dr. Jackie Whittaker in this BJSM episode to share tips and tricks for both delivering and receiving effective, high quality online education. Dr. Whi...
Apr 03, 2020•21 min
Runners are constantly trying to find the perfect shoe that will combine increased performance with decreased injury risk. In this podcast, Dr. Liam West poses the questions to Dr. Laurent Malisoux to explore whether the current body of research is able to guide the clinician as to which shoe type is perfect for which foot type. Dr. Malisoux is a key researcher at the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory at the Luxembourg Institute of Health. His area of research and expertise centres on running ...
Mar 27, 2020•18 min
Assistant Dean at McMaster University, member of the FINA (World Swimming) and the IOC Working Group on Mental Health in Athletes, Dr Margo Mountoy (MD, Dip Sport Med [CASEM], PhD) shares practical insights. What 4 things should a team physician do to help an athlete who has mental health symptoms or a diagnosed mental health disorder. You’ll hear the FREE 2019 consensus paper referred to: http://ow.ly/hTpS50yKx7K
Mar 13, 2020•16 min
Football is the world's most popular sport, captivating the hearts and minds of millions of people every day. Supporting our national team or local club evokes a deep sense of pride, and provides a consistent source of entertainment. How could something so addictive be so good for you? Football has been found to be an effective adjunct for the treatment and prevention of a wide variety of conditions such as depression, some cancers and type 2 diabetes. In this podcast, Dr Daniel Parnell explains...
Mar 06, 2020•19 min
Dr Imran Sajid is a frontline clinician, health policy maker, educator and researcher with a keen interest in behavioural economics. This podcast takes a 30,000-foot view of some of our daily clinical approaches—and dives down into specific cases to make important points. How do you get the right care to the right patient at the right time. Is there overdiagnosis and overtreatment in our field—the field of musculoskeletal care? Fee-for-service underpins a great deal of treatment in MSK medicine....
Feb 28, 2020•20 min
Dr. Rachel Lampert, MD joins host Devin McFadden, MD on AMSSM’s Sports Medcast (T: @TheAMSSM) to discuss athletic participation in athletes with cardioverter-defibrilators for known cardiac abnormalities. In this 20 minute conversation Dr. Lampert addresses the following topics: - What are the common causes of sudden cardiac death in athletes? - What is the data to support disqualifying patients with known cardiac disease (cardiomyopathies and channelopathies) from sports, and could they potenti...
Feb 21, 2020•19 min
Has the principle of shared decision making in athletes with known cardiac abnormalities placed our athletes, teams, and medical system at risk? Are there situations where accepted medical standards and risk management trump patient autonomy? What further steps can we take to generate the data needed to ensure that the athletes we clear in the future are safe to participate? On this episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast (T: @TheAMSSM) host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD is joined by internationally recogn...
Feb 14, 2020•23 min
Nanette Mutrie (@NanetteMutrie) has been Chair of Physical Activity for Health at the University of Edinburgh since July 2012. She directs the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC) in the Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences. Nanette is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. She took a break from writing the 4th edition of ‘Psychology of Physical Activity” to speak with BJSM’s outgoing Editor-in-Chief...
Feb 07, 2020•22 min
Nanette Mutrie (@NanetteMutrie) has been Chair of Physical Activity for Health at the University of Edinburgh since July 2012. She directs the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC) in the Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences. In January 2015 Nanette was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list for services to physical activity for health in Scotland. Nanette is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Scienc...
Jan 31, 2020•25 min
Did you know that water can stop bullets? Dr. Erin Macri caught up with Dr. Ben Waller to learn more about the untapped and under-recognized power of water and its potential applications in everything from rehabilitation to high level athletic conditioning. Dr. Ben Waller is the Scientific Chair of the Finnish Sport physiotherapy association; Adjunct Professor at Reykjavik University, and Lecturer for the International Aquatic Therapy Faculty. Prior to this he was Senior Researcher at the Univer...
Jan 24, 2020•19 min
Are passive therapies making patients worse? Does stretching help? Where do the bio, psycho and social components fit into patient management? This week Tom Goom joins us to chat about how to avoid the common pitfalls all clinicians can make. Known to many in the SEM community as the ‘Running Physio’, Tom is a physiotherapist with over 15 years of experience who specialises in running injuries. He shares his knowledge with clinicians and runners around the world through his website Running-physi...
Jan 17, 2020•20 min
In our first episode of 2020, Associate Professor Shona Halson PhD joins us to chat about why our new year’s resolution should be to get more sleep! Shona is an Associate Professor in the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Shona has a PhD in Exercise Physiology, recently finished up close to 16 years working at the Australian Institute of Sport as a senior recovery physiologist, and has been the Director of the Australian Olympic Committee Recovery Centr...
Jan 10, 2020•23 min
At the 6 th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat held in Milwaukee in October 2019, Erin Macri pulled four clinician-scientists (Dr. Simon Lack, Dr. David M. Bazett-Jones, Dr. Gretchen Salsich, Dr. Christian Barton) into the ring, with a goal of teasing out key concepts and providing guidance on how to incorporate dynamic knee valgus into the evaluation and treatment of individuals with patellofemoral pain. Should dynamic knee valgus always be treated? Find out in this episode....
Dec 13, 2019•16 min
This podcast features the heavily in-demand Dr Enda King. Enda is Head of Performance Rehabilitation at the Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, and world-leading authority on Hip, Groin and ACL injuries. In this 20-minute masterclass, Enda provides cutting-edge insight on a number of topics including: - The role of biomechanical factors in injury prevention and rehabilitation - Key biomechanical and clinical milestones in the rehabilitation process - How to identify and address common biomechanical...
Dec 06, 2019•19 min
This week, Prof Lorimer Moseley joins us to explore how we can better apply contemporary understanding of pain in clinical practice. Lorimer is Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. Prof Moseley’s research group - Body in Mind - investigates the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain. He has over 25 years of clinical experience and has authored hundreds of articles, as well as five books.
Nov 29, 2019•30 min
What are the keys to good running form? Is there a magical number for step rate? Should we all be changing the way we run? This week Tom Goom joins us to chat about gait retraining and its role in helping injured runners. Known to many in the SEM community as the ‘Running Physio’, Tom is a physiotherapist with over 15 years of experience who specialises in running injuries. He shares his knowledge with clinicians and runners around the world through his website Running-physio.com and very popula...
Nov 22, 2019•24 min
On this week’s episode, we are joined by Dr Louise Tulloh to dive into the biopsychosocial realm of patient management in sport and exercise medicine. Dr Tulloh was recently elected as President of The Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) and has been practicing sport and exercise medicine for over 20 years. In this 20-minute podcast, we discuss: · Why we should all take a more biopsychosocial approach in SEM · How to explore a patient’s individual psychosocial factors ·...
Nov 15, 2019•21 min
One of the most important aspects of athletic performance is something we all do for a third of our lives, but until recently, had rarely been discussed. In the second of this two-part episode, Dr. Krys Bigosinski and Dr. Cindy Chang converse about the role of sleep in sports medicine. They cover topics including the role of sleep in sports performance, the challenges of travel for the elite athlete, the impact of a busy schedule on sleep for collegiate athletes, and the role of sleep in concuss...
Nov 08, 2019•20 min
One of the most important aspects of athletic performance is something we all do for a third of our lives, but until recently, had rarely been discussed. In the first of this two-part episode, Dr. Krys Bigosinski and Dr. Cindy Chang converse about the role of sleep in sports medicine. They cover topics including the role of sleep in sports performance, the challenges of travel for the elite athlete, the impact of a busy schedule on sleep for collegiate athletes, and the role of sleep in concussi...
Nov 01, 2019•24 min
Dr Alex Hutchsinon PhD chats about the historic breakthrough that was equated to humans setting foot on the moon. Alex is an award-winning journalist, author and athlete who has a keen interest in exploring the science of endurance, fitness, and health. In this 20-minute podcast, Alex discusses: - The significance of Eliud Kipchoge’s unofficial record and its impact on our beliefs about the limits of human performance - Factors limiting and facilitating endurance performance in running - Kipchog...
Oct 25, 2019•22 min
In this special Athlete Voice edition of the podcast, we chat with Olympic and World Champion rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra about managing the mental pressures of elite sport. Abhinav is a 5 x Olympian, entrepreneur and active member of the IOC Athlete’s Commission. In this 20-minute podcast, Abhinav discusses: · How he found the sport of rifle shooting · Celebrating the ‘process’ throughout his decorated 22-year career · The importance of prevention, prehab and physical awareness · His current c...
Oct 18, 2019•23 min
On this week’s episode, we chat with Dr Louise Tulloh about overcoming barriers for women in medical leadership. Dr Tulloh was recently elected as President of The Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) and has been practicing sport and exercise medicine for over 20 years. In this 20-minute podcast, we discuss: · Dr Tulloh’s new role as president of ACSEP · Barriers to women attaining leadership positions in medicine and how we can overcome them - Gender stereotypes within...
Oct 11, 2019•20 min
Welcome to this BJSM podcast with Elaine Wyllie MBE, a former headteacher in Stirling, Scotland who launched the hugely popular ‘Daily Mile’ initiative. She will be speaking at the BASEM conference in Glasgow on 21st November, but in advance we thought we’d get a few sneaky glimpses into what she will be discussing. For tickets to the BASEM conference in Glasgow: you can find them on the link here: https://basem.co.uk/event/basem-2019-annual-conference/ For some of the research behind the Daily ...
Oct 04, 2019•10 min
For our 400th episode, we chat with Amelia Boone--four-time Obstacle Racing World Champion, ultrarunner and attorney--about her battle with anorexia for the past 20 years. In July 2019, Amelia wrote publicly about her eating disorder, shining a light on RED-S, athlete mental health and recovery. In this 20-minute podcast, we discuss: · Amelia’s motivation for sharing her story · The impact of success on perception of food and body image · Common myths about athletes and eating disorders · What t...
Sep 27, 2019•23 min
In this BJSM podcast, we hear from Associate Professor Jon Patricios, a South African Sport & Exercise Medicine physician who has extensive experience of working in Rugby Union. He has an interest in concussion, having written the concussion protocols for the BokSmart injury prevention programme and he is a member of the World Rugby Concussion Advisory Group. In this discussion, we discuss (among various things) - How things have changes from an immediate care point of view - How the HIA wor...
Sep 20, 2019•18 min
Dr Martin Raftery and Dr Ross Tucker join the BJSM to discuss World Rugby’s injury prevention journey, and most recent player welfare initiatives. We also hear from World Rugby chairman Sir Bill Beaumont on how rugby has evolved in this regard. All links can be found in the e-Edition.
Sep 13, 2019•18 min
