BJSM Podcast

Dr Alex Kountouris is the physiotherapist or the Australian men’s cricket team, a position he has held for 8 years. He has just completed his PhD on the relationship between quadratus lumborum and lumbar stress fractures. In this podcast he discusses strategies for the prevention and treatment of lumbar spine injuries in cricket. The interesting questions posed to him come from our twitter followe...

Dr Alex Kountouris tries to stay out of the limelight despite his position as physiotherapist to the Australian Men’s cricket team. Despite his attempts, he finds himself in the media talking about players’ injuries and the reasons behind their inclusion or exclusion from the team. Listen to him discuss injury prevention and treatment in cricket, and for the first time hear the questions posed by...

Dr Bert Mandelbaum is the team doctor for Team USA (soccer), the LA Galaxy, and Director of Research for Major League Baseball. He shares his optimism about the role of PRP in various injuries, while cautioning that stem cells, despite their promise, may still be like a ‘Ferrari without a steering wheel’. He was a pioneer in ACL prevention research and believes that programs successful in women ma...

Dr Jonathan Drezner, BJSM Senior Associate Editor (Sports Cardiology) is the team physician for Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League. Speaking in the week after his team’s first Super Bowl appearance, he shares thoughts with Karim Khan about a typical week at the Seahawks, the season’s climax in New Jersey, and what budding sports medicine clinicians might do if aspiring to work in the...

After a patient has undergone ACL surgery, rehabilitation is bread and butter in many physiotherapy/sports medicine clinics. Many BJSM podcast listeners will be expert in this role. If you are less expert and wondering if there is an ‘optimum’ way to guide the patient back to sport, Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller provides some food for thought. He discusses some novel ways of assessing a patient’s progre...

Julien Périard is a Canadian research scientist. After racing on the International Triathlon Union Circuit, he completed a PhD at the University of Sydney, investigating the mechanisms that limit prolonged exercise in the heat. He continues to be intrigued by the mechanisms that mediate performance and fatigue in adverse conditions and is now based in Qatar, an ideal place conduct heat studies in...

Mark Huizinga, a Dutch judoka, is 5 time European and Olympic Champion. Mark won the gold medal in the men’s under 90 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and took bronze at both the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He retired after the 2008 Olympic Games and is currently national coach of the juniors in the Netherlands. In this podcast he talks to BJSM deputy editor Babette Pluim about the most mem...

If you have wondered about the connection between pain and pathology in tendons, this podcast is for you. In this new forum, a BJSM reader takes the hard questions to the experts, Chris Littlewood, who has expertise as a clinician and researcher in the rotator cuff, asks questions of Craig Purdam, who needs little introduction to you, and Ebonie Rio, who has expertise as a clinician in tendons and...

In this podcast Glen Hagemann, a sports physician from Durban, South Africa, shares with you his two-year experience and lessons learned as President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA). One of the highlights of his presidency was the 15th Biennial SASMA congress held recently at the Wild Coast Sun, and for those of you who are interested in viewing the presentations, please c...

Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor discuss practical tips on the use and safety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Please feel free to contact us at thesportsmedcast@gmail.com, and follow us on twitter twitter.com/sportsmedcast. See also: Read th...

In a podcast that may be of most interest to our general practice audience, Professor James McCormack has had a longstanding passion for scrutinising study results. One of his roles has been evaluating drug company trials [therapeuticseducation.org] and recommending with the British Columbia Provincial Government reimburse patients for those drugs or not. One category of drugs he is expert is NSAI...

Are you wondering how to best manage sports-related groin pain? In this 2nd of two podcasts by, Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller focuses on groin pain – particularly in football sports. He advocates a fresh look at the treatment and diagnosis of groin pain. In particular, he argues that the patient’s biomechanics can be best analysed using dynamic video capture systems. Dr Franklyn-Miller has published w...

Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor present clinical pearls on several topics from the recent sports medicine literature. Please feel free to contact us at thesportsmedcast@gmail.com regarding this or any other Sports Medcast.

Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller is a renowned sports and exercise medicine physician whose background includes providing care to the UK Defence Forces and elite athletes. He has published widely in sports medicine and his book, Clinical Sports Anatomy (2011), coauthored with Eanna Falvey and Peter Brukner, is an international best-seller. In this podcast he shares secrets from 15 years of experience in...

Karim Khan calls mechanotherapy “the most important fundamental concept that underpins rehabilitation exercises”. Listen to Karim explain that all exercise-based rehabilitation relies on the cells of the injured tissue sensing the exercise stimulus, converting that signal to protein synthesis, and repairing tissue. He explains why ‘rest doesn’t work’ and argues that mechanotherapy has substantial...

Welcome to the Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor discuss the practical considerations of concussion evaluation and management with Dr Jeffrey Kutcher, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, and the Director of Michigan NeuroSport. Please feel free to contact us at thesp...

This podcast comes together with the Dutch Sports Medicine Association edition of BJSM. Guest editor Hans Zwerver talks with Prof Ron Diercks, head of the Sports Medicine Center of the University Medical Center in Groningen, about the development of sports medicine research in the Netherlands and the Groningen Sport Science Institute. Ron discusses the impact of the expected recognition of Sports...

It is currently widely accepted among clinicians that chronic tendinopathy is caused by a degenerative process devoid of inflammation. The evidence for non-inflammatory degenerative processes alone as the cause of tendinopathy is surprisingly weak. In this podcast, Jon Rees a rheumatologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust tells Jill Cook why the role of inflammation offers p...

Adam Weir talks to Ben Kibler from the Shoulder Center of Kentucky about the 2013 consensus statement on scapular dyskinesis in shoulder injury. Read the editor's choice article for free online: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/14/877.full The second international consensus conference on the scapula was held in Lexington Kentucky. The purpose of the conference was to update, present and discuss the...

Welcome to the first Sports Medcast, brought to you in association with the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. In this episode, hosts Dr Scott Young and Dr Cole Taylor discuss the practical considerations of heat injury evaluation and management with Dr Fran O'Connor, Chair of Military Medicine at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. We'd very much like to hear your feedba...

David Pope (@DavidKPope) is a practicing physiotherapist in Australia and a pioneer in social media for physio education. His podcasts via ClinicalEdge (www.clinicaledge.com.au/pages/podcast) with stellar guests such as David Butler and Jill Cook have had many tens of thousands of listeners. In this podcast, BJSM turns the microphone around and asks him to share the secrets of contemporary clinica...

In questo Podcast, il Prof Antonio Pelliccia, esperto a livello modiale nell’ambito della Cardiologia dello Sport, parla della prevenzione della morte improvvisa nello sportivo. Campo in continuo sviluppo, la cardiologia dello sport trova nell’Italia uno dei paesi pionieristici, sia in ambito clinico che nella ricerca scientifica. You can listen to an English version of this podcast here: http://g...

In this podcast, Prof Antonio Pelliccia, Institute of Sport Medicine and Science, Rome, Italy, an international expert in sports cardiology, talks about the prevention of sudden death in athletes. In a field in continuous development, sports cardiologists in Italy are leading the way, both in clinical and scientific research. This podcast is also available in Italian: http://goo.gl/5fweGj

Dr Peter Brukner has been looking at nutrition for health, both of athletes and in the wider population. In this podcast he speaks to Professor Tim Noakes, author of The Lore of Running, originator of the central governor theory, and a strong exponent of the low carbohyrate-high fat diet. Tim talks about his views on carbohydrate, and how his experience of a very low carb diet has changed the way...

We are talking tendons again in this podcast because the next International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium has been scheduled for September 5 and 6 in Oxford, UK. This exciting event follows on from two successful conferences in Vancouver in 2012 and Umea in 2010. The consensus paper from the Vancouver conference is open access in the June 2013 edition of BJSM [http://bit.ly/13fLIN1]. In this p...