BJSM Podcast

If you enjoyed Part 1 of David Epstein’s BJSM podcast listen to this one to hear about the genetic contribution to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the reason it is so hard to detect in all cases, and real life choices that some players made when offered genetic screening opportunities. We finish by discussing whether an Olympic cross-country ski champion with a hematocrit of 65 is a blood-doper or th...

Professor Jan Ekstrand is orthopedic surgeon and vice-chairman of the UEFA medical committee. He is professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been team physician of the Swedish National Soccer team. Since 1982, professor Ekstrand has been running prospective studies related to the epidemiology of sports injuries in football. Since 2001, he has carried out EUFA inj...

Professor Jan Ekstrand is orthopedic surgeon and vice-chairman of the UEFA medical committee. He is professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been team physician of the Swedish National Soccer team. Since 1982, professor Ekstrand has been running prospective studies related to the epidemiology of sports injuries in football. Since 2001, he has carried out EUFA inj...

Did you listen to Ray Moynihan’s podcast on ‘’Overdiagnosis in sports medicine”? That’s a ‘gold’ podcast (>5000 listens) and Peter O’Sullivan now extends those ideas into the realm of sports physiotherapy. “We can massively create health problems” warns Prof O’Sullivan speaking about the way clinicians may explain pathology to patients. If not explained appropriately, MRI and other imaging can hav...

Who are the biggest names in the back pain world? Correct – Peter O’Sullivan is one of them. He's provocative, clinically-relevant, and vastly experienced. He’s desperate to help patients, that’s obvious! But not everyone has to agree. Listen to his take on management of both chronic, and acute, back pains – does it make sense to you? Peter O’Sullivan is Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy...

In this concise, information-rich BJSM podcast, sports cardiologist Aaron Baggish shares his expertise on the critical issue of sudden cardiac death in sport. He explains how to determine which ECG changes in athletes are sinister and which may not be (such as right bundle branch block). He argues for a detailed screening program for elite athletes and gives advice for those whose care is not cove...

Irene Davis is a renowned biomechanics clinician and scientist. Barefoot running has been one of her areas of focus and she co-authored the Nature paper that received cover attention and created mainstream attention to that topic. She and first author Dr Patrick McKeon, conceived of the idea of a foot ‘core’; if certain foot muscles act as a core it has immediate implications for management in cli...

The most prevalent condition diagnosed in most sports medicine clinics is patellofemoral pain. Professor Irene Davis is one of the world’s leading physiotherapists and researchers who addresses this issue. She’s a regular keynote speaker at major international conferences. In this BJSM podcast she shares her approach to assessing the patient with patellofemoral pain. From this basis she outlines a...

Dr Shabaaz Mughal and Geoff Scott from Tottenham Hotspurs join James Walsh to talk about how to get into working in elite football, the multi-disciplinary team working environment in elite sport, concussion, Fabrice Muamba and cardiac arrest, as well as the Fifa 11+ and injury prevention. See also: A pilot study examining injuries in elite gaelic footballers: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/34/2/104.f...

Jon Patricios, President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) and editor of BJSM July 2014, Volume 48, Issue 14, chats to Dr Josep "Chuck" Cakic, a renowned Croatian-born South African Hip Arthroscopist, chair of the South African Society for Hip Arthroscopy (SASHA) and an executive member of the International Society of Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA). They discuss key issues regarding...

This podcast logically follows (Part 1) below but it stands alone as well. Painful hip and groin pain requires a careful history looking for aggravating factors and risk factors, as well as targeted physical examination including but not limited to the hip and groin. Duke University’s Associate Prof Mike Reiman shares specific tips for both assessing, and rehabilitating, the patient with hip and g...

Managing the athlete with hip stiffness detected at a physical exam or in a PPE is one of the hottest topics of 2014. Some would argue that nothing needs to be done given that the patient is asymptomatic but on the other hand many orthopaedic papers argue for ‘preventive’ osteotomy. Is this ‘overdiagnosis’ and ‘overtreatment’? Mike Reiman is a highly respected clinician-academic and he has integra...

Jennie Morton is a UCL Honorary Lecturer on the MSc in Performing Arts Medicine, and lectures for The British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, Dance UK and many performing arts schools and teaching organisations. She also co-runs a dance school in Tring, Hertfordshire, and is a faculty member of The Wells Summer School with Dancers of the Royal Ballet. She still performs as a professional...

Professor Lorimer Moseley holds the Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia as well as being a Professor of Neurosciences. He completed his PhD in 2002 and has both learned and shared wisdom at the Universities of Queensland, Sydney and Oxford before settling in Adelaide. He leads the Body in Mind Research Group and coauthored the best-selling ‘Explain Pain’. In this...

Apophyseal injury in children and adolescents are common and usually respond to simple unloading interventions. But what is the underlying pathology and why do some children succumb and others not? And why do some apophyses become painful and others fail completely with a complete avulsion? Despite these questions it is an area that is under-researched and few people have a specific interest in th...

Over-diagnosis, over-treatment and industry influence. Surely not in sports medicine? Ray Moynihan is an internationally renowned contributor in the battle to limit any inappropriate influence of pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and technology companies on good clinical practice. He shares his concerns about the role of drug/implant companies but also argues that clinicians may well be contributing to...

Here’s the podcast that over 12,000 listeners have been demanding – physiotherapist Adam Meakins (@TheSportsPhysio)on a number of controversial topics, including: Is diagnostic palpation accurate? Can the sacroiliac joint really be ‘unstable’? How does ‘touch’ in physiotherapy have its therapeutic effect? Adam provides great value on Twitter and on his blog – here you can listen to him in your fav...

Integrating athlete care – ‘one stop shop’ to optimize athlete care - sports medicine with a focus on PERFORMANCE. Dr Paul Dijkstra has vast experience in elite track and field athlete care. He shares his experience from UK Athletics – the team won 4 gold medals at the London Olympic Games. What’s new in this approach? This model of athlete care emphasises the partnership among not only the health...

Isabel van Obergen and Hannes Cleppe discuss their prevention platform for sports: a software program (SpartaNova) that is in the ‘e-Health’ category for physiotherapy and sports medicine. We begin with an obvious competing interest disclaimer. BJSM has no financial interest or association with SpartaNova. Because clinicians use specific products, such as ‘Theraband’ ® for example, BJSM will repor...

With Rob Swire (Manchester United) and Stijn Vandenbroucke (Moscow Dynamo). ‘You always start off the season with a masterplan of what you are wanting to do but we’ve never had a master plan that works or goes anywhere near where it is supposed to, but you just try your best’. Given this validation of what you are doing, listen and see how you CAN make prevent injuries and improve team performance...

Rob Swire has had 22 years of experience at Manchester United. BJSM asked him ‘How do you screen a professional football team pre-season?’ He shares how it’s done, as well as the challenges of being a team clinician and struggling to keep up with continuing education. In the most recent season, Manchester United have moved to include a software package to simplify their screening data entry, risk...

Are you an exercise advocate? Dr Mike Loosemore, leader of the ‘Exercise is Medicine’ task force in the UK shares recent advances in this field. He spearheaded a most successful conference in that topic in 2013 and shares highlights with BJSM Editor Karim Khan. He previews the 2014 Exercise Medicine conference which you can catch at the Royal Society of Medicine in London on Friday June 20 and Sat...

This 12-minute podcast relates to a special 2013 Consensus Meeting on Anti-Doping in Sports & its summary in BJSM’s Special Issue on Anti-Doping (May 2014). On November 29, 2013, FIFA hosted a meeting of representatives from key Anti-Doping stakeholders. Represented were sports physicians, athletes, legal experts, biomedical scientists, as well as leadership of international sports federations, th...

Professor Philippe Neyret from Lyon, France, is a renowned sports orthopaedic surgeon. Following from his talk at the Isokinetic Football Medicine Conference in Milan, BJSM editor Karim Khan reached him via mobile phone. Prof Neyret discusses patellar dislocation in the setting of football and explains that certain anatomic variations (including trochlea dysplasia) make the condition more likely t...

Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, AMSSM members discuss the recently published 'Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports: A Position Statement from the AMSSM' with statement authors Dr John DiFiori, Dr Joel S Brenner and Dr Neeru Jayanthi. Read the statement: http://goo.gl/lczEHo Please feel free...