Dr. Kirsty Elliott-Sale. Dr. Elliott-Sale is an Associate Professor of female physiology at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England, where she is Head of the Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group. For over 20 years she has been focussed on elite women athletes and maternal populations, primarily in the areas of endocrinology and musculoskeletal and exercise physiology. In this episode, Dr. Erin Macri talks to Dr. Elliott-Sale about menstruation and oral contraception, and their ef...
Dec 07, 2020•24 min
On this week's episode, we are joined by the WHO's Prof Fiona Bull and Dr Juana Willumsen to launch the new WHO 2020 Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour. In this 20-minute podcast, Prof Bull and Dr Willumsen discuss the new global recommendations in depth, explain what has changed since the 2010 guidelines, and outline the next steps forward to creating more active people for a healthier world. Want to learn more? Check out the BJSM WHO Guidelines special issue (open access!)...
Nov 25, 2020•20 min
On this week’s episode, we are joined by Prof Christa Janse van Rensburg to discuss the do’s and don’ts of mask wearing during exercise. Prof Janse van Rensburg is a Sport and Exercise Physician who is the Head of Department of the Section Sports Medicine at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Nov 23, 2020•12 min
As a three-time Major winner and the current European Ryder Cup team captain, Padraig Harrington is uniquely placed to consider the cultural changes in golf with respect to medicine and performance. During this two-part conversation with Dr Sean Carmody and Padraig's longtime fitness coach, Dr Liam Hennessey, Padraig provides an insight into his experiences of injury, what he believes contributes to injury, and how a willingness to innovate has helped him to continue playing at the highest level...
Nov 13, 2020•18 min
As a three-time Major winner and the current European Ryder Cup team captain, Padraig Harrington is uniquely placed to consider the cultural changes in golf with respect to medicine and performance. During this two-part conversation with Dr Sean Carmody and Padraig's longtime fitness coach, Dr Liam Hennessey, Padraig provides an insight into his experiences of injury, what he believes contributes to injury, and how a willingness to innovate has helped him to continue playing at the highest level...
Nov 06, 2020•23 min
Serenna Williams, Alysson Felix, Kerry Walsh Jennings, Lisa Leslie. Mothers and champions. In this AMSSM Sportsmedcast sports medicine specialist Dr. Rathna Nuti hosts Dr. Ellen Casey, @EllenCaseyMD, Associate Attending Physiatrist in the Department of Physiatry and the Women's Sports Medicine Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Dr Casey who works with US Gymnastics, is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Casey...
Oct 30, 2020•30 min
On this week’s podcast, Dr. Douglas Casa PhD, ATC and Dr. Francis O’Connor MD, MPH, FAMSSM join Dr. Seth Smith MD, PharmD on AMSSM’s Sports Medcast to discuss exertional heat illness with an emphasis on exertional heat stroke. In this conversation, Dr. Casa and Dr. O’Connor will address the following topics: · What is the basic paradigm for the prehospital care of exertional heat stroke (EHS)? · How to develop a thorough emergency action plan (EAP) for recognition and management of EHS? · What s...
Oct 23, 2020•25 min
A dive into female athlete health with Dr Nicky Keay. Dr Keay is a Sports and Dance Endocrinologist and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University. Many of our listeners will know Nicky from some of her publications in BJSM relating to female athlete health, which we cover in two rich podcasts. For some of the resources mentioned, please see the links below, or check out the BJSM blog homepage, where they will be collated into an interactive blog. Links...
Oct 16, 2020•18 min
A dive into female athlete health with Dr Nicky Keay. Dr Keay is a Sports and Dance Endocrinologist and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University. Many of our listeners will know Nicky from some of her publications in BJSM relating to female athlete health, which we cover in two rich podcasts. For some of the resources mentioned, please see the links below, or check out the BJSM blog homepage, where they will be collated into an interactive blog. Links...
Oct 09, 2020•14 min
On this week’s episode, crowd favourite Dr Alex Hutchinson PhD returns to discuss the difference between effort and pain in the world of endurance. A former Canadian national team middle- and long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist, Alex is an award winning author and columnist who writes for Outside magazine and The Toronto Globe and Mail. Want to learn more about the science of suffering? Follow @Sweat Science on Twitter and check out his book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously...
Oct 02, 2020•16 min
Dr. Harvi Hart is a postdoctoral researcher at Western University in London, Ontario, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Hart’s research focuses on identifying risk factors for knee osteoarthritis, both non-traumatic and post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Through better understanding these risk factors, Dr. Hart aims to develop new treatment approaches for managing knee OA. In this episode, Dr. Erin Macri asks Dr. Hart about her most recent studies looking at cadence and its p...
Sep 25, 2020•13 min
As long haul domestic & international travel for athletic competition slowly begins to resume post the restrictive COVID period, it will be more imperative than ever to keep these athletes healthy. This travel places significant risks of infection transmission and an aeroplane has unique challenges to overcome. BJSM's Liam West poses the questions to Prof. Wayne Derman who gives golden practical tips on how to commute safely. This podcast was recorded in March - since then the learning curve...
Sep 18, 2020•27 min
Why are females more at risk of ACL injuries in football? What can we do to reduce the risk for our athletes? On this week’s episode, we are joined by Brooke Patterson and Dr Ben Mentiplay to discuss their latest review of injury prevention programmes reducing the risk of injury in women’s football. Brooke (T: @Knee_Howells) is a physiotherapist who is currently completing her PhD at the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, investigating the impact of ACL injuries on the lives o...
Sep 11, 2020•25 min
On this week’s episode, we are joined by Dr Mary O’Keeffe (T: @MaryOKeeffe007) to discuss how clinicians can better manage patients with low back pain. Mary is a physiotherapist and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Mary was awarded her PhD in 2017, in which she examined multidimensional rehabilitation for the individual with chronic back pain. Mary’s research now focuses on changing clinicians’ behaviour, improving diagnostic labels of low back pain, and communicating healthcare mes...
Sep 04, 2020•22 min
On this week’s episode, we are joined by A/Prof Daniel Belavy (T: @BelavySpine) from the Institute of Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University in Melbourne. A/Prof Belavy is a back pain and spine researcher, and Leader of the Spine Research Group at Deakin. In this 17-min podcast, A/Prof Belavy discusses: • the most effective exercises to improve pain, physical function and mental in adults with non-specific chronic low back pain • how running and cycling affect spine health • how si...
Sep 01, 2020•18 min
Dr. Mark Matthews (@Mark_MatthewsNZ) is a Lecturer at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prof. Bill Vicenzino (@Bill_Vicenzino) is Chair in Sports Physiotherapy and Director of Sports Injuries Rehabilitation and Prevention for Health (SIRPH) research unit at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. In this episode, Dr. Erin Macri (@Erin_Macri) asks these clinician-researchers about their recent trial comparing foot orthoses to hip exercises, and how their results change ...
Aug 21, 2020•22 min
What is COVID myocarditis and how strong is the data to create a link between COVID and potential arrhythmias? Was COVID myocarditis the leading factor in the recent decisions of some American athletic conferences to shut-down the fall sports season? What are the criteria to start participation again? On this episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast (T: @TheAMSSM) host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD is joined by sports medicine physicians and internationally renowned experts on Sports Cardiology Dr. Jonathan...
Aug 14, 2020•41 min
There has been a huge shift in golfers over the last 10 to 15 years with many more golfers at the top of the game such as Tiger Woods, Rory Mcllroy and Brooks Koepka focusing on Strength and Conditioning (S&C) to improve performance. COVID-19 has stopped many sporting events and has provided some a unique opportunity to focus on S&C. Bryson DeChambeau took full advantage of this putting on large amounts of muscle and is the latest golfer to demonstrate the benefits of S&C in golf per...
Aug 07, 2020•27 min
Are injury recurrences due to a return to sport prior to adequate biological healing? Can we accurately measure stages healing with imaging or blood tests? Professor Erik Witvrouw discusses the importance of respecting biological healing in sports musculoskeletal injuries with BJSM’s Liam West.
Jul 31, 2020•16 min
Language, and how we use it, has a powerful influence on driving performance and clinical outcomes. Nick Winkelman, Head of Athletic Performance & Science for the Irish Rugby Football Union, has spent considerable time studying how effective communication can enhance performance. During this podcast with Dr Sean Carmody, Nick draws on the content from his book The Language of Coaching: The Art & Science of Teaching Movement to assess how visual cues and metaphors can be applied to improv...
Jul 24, 2020•19 min
Dr. Andrea Mosler is a specialist sports physiotherapist and research fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne. In this podcast, Liam West poses the questions that see Dr. Mosler explain how you should approach the prevention and management of hip and groin pain in athletes. She describes findings from her PhD and gives you the listener some clinical pearls to add to your “hip and groin” treatment toolbox!
Jul 17, 2020•15 min
Dr Mackenzie Herzog (@MackenzieHerzog) has a PhD in Sports Injury and Orthopaedic Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently a Lead Epidemiologist on the Injury Surveillance and Analytics team at IQVIA. She was part of a team assessing the risks of sustaining an ankle sprain whilst playing in the NBA across four seasons. In this podcast we explore the findings from the paper (published in AJSM), the need to collect robust data to inform injury prevention ...
Jul 10, 2020•25 min
Dr. Dan Rhon (T: @danrhon) is an active researcher for the US Department of Defence, a consultant and assistant professor at both Duke (North Carolina) and Baylor (Texas) Universities. He attended a manual therapy clinical fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, is a fellow in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT), and an orthopaedic clinical specialist (OCS). He completed a postdoc research fellowship through the University of Utah and has a strong r...
Jul 03, 2020•27 min
Twitter: @Happysport_dk According to the literature, a substantial reduction in injury rates in youth sport is achievable. So why isn’t this translating into meaningful injury prevention in the real world? And what can we do about it? In this episode, Dr. Erin Macri asks Dr. Merete Møller to share her powerful insights on this topic and to introduce a novel research project (the HAPPY project) that aims to bridge the gap from injury prevention trials to real-world results on the field. Related A...
Jun 26, 2020•26 min
On this week’s episode, we chat with BJSM Deputy Editor Dr Jane Thornton MD PhD about how clinicians can support athlete mental health during COVID-19. As a World Champion and former Olympic rower for Canada, Dr Thornton has been supporting Canadian athletes experiencing mental health issues related to COVID-19. In partnership with sports psychiatrist Dr Carla Edwards, Dr Thornton has also produced a range of mental health resources to help athletes combat COVID-19 anxiety. In this 25–minute pod...
Jun 19, 2020•25 min
Associate Editor Paul Blazey (T: @blazey85) talks with Professor Chad Cook from Duke University (North Carolina, USA). Chad is a Professor in the Orthopaedic Surgery Division of Physical Therapy, with an interest in the effective diagnosis, intervention, and outcomes assessment of conservative and surgical treatment of orthopedic-related conditions. Today we focus on Chad’s experience with orthopaedic testing, especially when applied to femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, and the ability to e...
Jun 12, 2020•25 min
The global COVID-19 Pandemic has changed the way we practice medicine and live our daily lives. Things we traditionally have taken for granted now pose major challenges, and among those is the challenge of remaining active. On this episode of the AMSSM Sports Medcast (T: @TheAMSSM) host Dr. Devin McFadden, MD is joined by sports medicine physician and fitness enthusiast Dr. Jordan Metzl to discuss strategies for continuing to encourage physical activity even during “social distancing.” Dr. Metzl...
Jun 05, 2020•17 min
Dr. Ben Sporer (T: @ben_sporer) is the current director of performance strategy, research and innovation at the Vancouver Whitecaps (MLS). He trained as an exercise physiologist and worked with the Canadian Sport Institute, supporting multisport, cycling and snowboarding athletes across three full Olympic cycles (summer and winter games). He brings a wealth of knowledge about developing elite athlete performance and wellbeing, as well as what it takes to build a performance team. Today in the di...
May 29, 2020•22 min
On this week's episode, we are joined again by Prof Fiona Bull to discuss why and how we should stay active in self-isolation. Prof Bull is the Programme Manager in the Department of Prevention of NCDs at the WHO in Geneva. She leads the WHO’s global work on physical activity. In this 15-minute podcast, Prof Bull explains what the WHO is doing to support countries increase physical activity in times of COVID-19 and outlines physical activity research priorities at a global level. #HealthyAtHome ...
May 22, 2020•14 min
In this cutting-edge podcast with Dr James Hull – a leading authority on respiratory health in athletes - we discuss the challenges facing athletes and healthcare professionals following infection with the novel coronavirus. We cover a few case-studies, and practical points for all SEM professionals to consider. Additional Links: Link to the published article in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30175-2/fulltext#.XrHWOYDlNM...
May 15, 2020•16 min
