BJSM Podcast

Clavicle fractures are common in contact sports as well as cycling trauma. Canada’s Olympic Team Chief Medical Officer shares dramatic results from a large RCT which has been a game changer. Thanks to the Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) for permission to steal this content from the CASEM Annual Meeting. Enjoy this second of Bob McCormack’s three BJSM podcasts. The first wa...

Dr MP (Rien) Heijboer, orthopedic surgeon, works at the Dept at Orthopedic at the Erasamus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. He has extensive experience with sports-related injuries and has worked for more than 30 years as medical adviser of football club Feijenoord in Rotterdam. He is a member of the medical staff of the Dutch National Soccer Team and visited the world soccer championships in Brasil i...

“There is no essential human need for any carbohydrate” is just one of Professor Timothy Noakes’ quotes in this provocative chat. He explains insulin resistance, distinguishes between elite athletes and the general population, and provides examples of athletes who were likely insulin-resistant. He shares practical diet tips. BJSM asks whether diets high in protein and fat increase risk of bowel ca...

Shoulder dislocation is common in sports, and management for the active athlete who dislocates for the first time remains controversial. Canada’s Olympic Medical Committee Medical Director, Prof Bob McCormack, explains the ways to assess patients to help decide whether to trial rehabilitation first or to opt for reconstruction. Bob has vast experience as an Olympic team doctor (beginning with Sydn...

With Ann Gates and Ian Ritchie (@ExerciseWorks and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, respectively). The ebullient Ann Gates, physical activity champion and social media phenomenon, explains that the campaign to train physicians to prescribe exercise is not squarely in the medical curriculum. In this joint podcast with Mr Ian Ritchie, we learn that surgeons are also taking up the cudgel to en...

Drs Jon Finnoff and John DiFiori on sports ultrasound. For several years, primary care sports medicine doctors have been mastering musculoskeletal ultrasound. With new technology comes a sharp learning curve and as the field matures, we begin to realise the full utility of point of care ultrasound. As sports medicine practitioners, we are now understanding that ultrasound has applications outside...

Dr David Opar joins us for this BJSM podcast. David is a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne and one of the emerging voices in the field of hamstring strain injuries, having done work on the possible mechanism of injury as well as prospective studies aimed at better understanding eccentric strength as a risk factor for these injuries. His work also investigates the Nordic H...

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...

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 Exerci...

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 a...

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 in...

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...

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 ten...

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...

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.

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

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...

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) t...

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...

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...

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 heali...

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...

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 fol...

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...

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 whos...