BJSM Podcast

Carl Askling, Ph. D., P.T., är forskare och lektor på Gymnastik och Idrottshögskolan, Stockholm och är knuten till Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Carl Askling har skrivit en avhandling om akuta skador av hamstringsmuskulaturen, “Hamstring Muscle Strain”, Karolinska Institutet, 2008, och har fortsätt att forska runt akuta hamstringsskador på bl.a. fotbollspelare. I den här podcasten talar idrott...

Dr Juan Manual Alonso is a spanish sports physician and PhD with vast experience in track and field - six Summer Olympic Games just to start! He is the head of the IAAF (Athletics) where he had a global responsibility for antidoping (since 2003) and for guiding athlete care for all 200 countries in the Athletics Federation. He has recently begun working at Aspetar-Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medi...

El Dr Juan Manuel Alonso es un médico del deporte español con dilatada experiencia en el atletismo (¡ha estado presente en 6 juegos olímpicos!). Es el presidente de la Comisión Médica y Anti-dopaje de la IAAF donde se ocupa de la lucha antidopaje y del cuidado general de los atletas de los 200 países que integran la Federación Internacional de Atletismo. Recientemente se ha incorporado a trabajar...

Professor Jiri Dvorak discusses the major public health initiative ‘Football for Health’ which has already been adopted in 19 countries. He also introduces that 11 steps to prevent cardiac death and revisits progess on the 11+, a warmup program that reduces lower limb injuries in football. Professor Dvorak is the Chief Medical Officer for FIFA and Chairman F-MARC.

Professor David Bishop, from the Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Active Living (SEAL) at the University of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, discusses the evidence base for altitude training to improve performance. The innovation is the role in team sports like football codes. He discusses with Karim Khan the differences between low oxygen and low barometric pressure, ways of replicating environ...

Terrified of Twitter? Afraid of apps? Evert Verhagen, sports scientist and academic from de Vue University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, guides us through everything sports clinicians need to know about social media and apps, and how they can aid clinical practice and health promotion. As well as being able to have references and guidance on your phone or tablet, these can help you stay bang up up to...

Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports physician at the University of Melbourne, talks us through what to do if you think you’ve had a concussion, when you can go back to sport, and what the complications of concussion are.

If you’re worried that your child has had concussion, this podcast is for you. Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports physician at the University of Melbourne, discusses the Concussion Recognition Tool, the guide that you can use if you suspect a diagnosis of concussion. What should you do? Dr McCrory also talks us through the symptoms of concussion, and how to know when a child has recovered. You c...

Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports medic at the University of Melbourne, gives us the new, take home messages from the latest concussion consensus statement. For a guide to all the content in the latest injury prevention and health protection issue of BJSM, where the consensus is published, listen to Dr McCrory’s earlier podcast http://bit.ly/12XvGb5. All the content from the issue can be found...

The latest injury prevention and health protection issue of BJSM focuses on concussion, and in this podcast Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports physician at the University of Melbourne, gives us an overview of what’s included, so you can target the content which you find most helpful. Dr McCrory takes us through the consensus statement on concussion in sport published in the issue, as well as the...

As we hit marathon season, Peter Brukner, BJSM senior associate editor, discusses the controversy around hydration for athletes with Tim Noakes, professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town and author of ‘Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports’. Professor Noakes explains who is at risk of hyponatremia, and how to spot and treat the conditio...

To provide additional insights to the April Injury Prevention Health Promotion (IPHP) issue of BJSM [http://bit.ly/YKvsQ5], Professor Meeuwisse takes you behind the scenes. What are the new elements for concussion management, why do some parents insist on unsafe practices for their children, how can you make sure you are up to date in your clinical practice? Professor Meeuwisse is from the Univers...

With Professor Roald Bahr, chairman of the Scientific Committee and member of the IOC Medical Commission. Are you planning your conference contribution or attendance for 2014? Those who attended the first 3 World Conferences on Injury & Illness Prevention in Sport are keen to make Monaco a destination in April 10-12, 2014. In this podcast, Professor Roald highlights the unique contribution of thes...

Lateral epicondylalgia, often referred to by patients as tennis elbow, has a range of treatment options available to the clinician. A group at the University of Queensland, Australia, headed by Bill Vicenzino have been investigating short and long term outcomes of different treatment modalities. Last month, they published an RCT in JAMA examining the effect of corticosteroid injection, physiothera...

Malcolm Collins is professor of human biology at the University of Cape Town and a chief specialist scientist at the South African Medical Research Council. He is one of the leading researchers at the Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Research Unit, which is located at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, a multidisciplinary institution committed to promoting sporting excellence and th...

In questo podcast Cristiano Eirale, specialista dello sport in Aspetar, Qatar Orthopedic and Sport Medicine Center e medico della Nazionale del Qatar, intervista Stefano Della Villa, Presidente dell’Isokinetic Medical Group, su passato, presente e futuro della medicina dello sport in Italia.

As part of the series of podcasts highlighting the best of sports medicine the world over, Dr Stefano Della Villa shares a very successful model of sports medicine clinical care in Italy; Cristiano Eirale comments on his experiences in Italy and for the last 6 years in Qatar. Both sports physicians have tremendous football experience but a focus of the podcast is delivery of clinical care - the pa...

This short podcast is directed to patients - specifically active sportspeople who have recently rupture an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Associate Professor Richard Frobell is the lead of the team that has addressed a key question with the most rigorous research study to date. Is there any benefit to immediate knee reconstruction? Will waiting for a knee reconstruction lead to more injury or a...

In this second of two podcasts for clinicians, associate professor Richard Frobell discusses how his 2010 RCT was received by some members of the clinical community and how he addressed those concerns. His new paper sheds further light on the issues that generated debate. See also: Treatment for acute anterior cruciate ligament tear: five year outcome of randomised trial bit.ly/Yqr25b A Randomized...

Dr Richard Frobell is an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at Lund University in Southern Sweden. His background is in physiotherapy but he’s worked as a specialist in clinical diagnosis for over a decade in a dedicated knee service program. In this podcast he discusses his recent BMJ paper, which is a follow up to the NEJM on ACL injury treatment. See also: Treatment for acute...

Harm Kuipers, emeritus professor of the University of Maastricht, talks to Babette Pluim, BJSM deputy editor, about the meaning of sport, the challenges of being an editor, and his most exciting scientific research projects. These are overtraining, delayed onset muscle soreness and glycogen restoration during exercise. Harm recently wrote his autobiography “Starting on two left skates”. He is a fo...

‘Personalized medicine’ has been touted as a major health opportunity. How likely is the promise to be realised? Tim Caulfield hit the global headlines in February 2011 when he was one of the first to argue that human genome had not delivered in the way that some had claimed it would. His Science paper echoed around in the world and was picked up by major news sources like the NY Times, Al Jazeera...

Dr Rogerio Teixeira da Silva, from the Sao Luiz Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, former President of the Brazilian Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Society, has a great interest in sports medicine, specifically upper extremity injuries in tennis players. He talks about his experiences with Gustavo Kuerten and what the athlete has meant for tennis in Brazil, the medical care of junior tennis players, hip...

In this podcast we look at what sports and exercise medicine around the world can learn from Australia, just one of the countries where the area is thriving. Scott Gardner is an Australian sports scientist currently working in the UK, recently with British Cycling, and he describes what’s going on at the Australian Institute of Sport, and why he thinks they’re so good at training clinicians (0.45)...

Professor Kim Harmon from the University of Washington, former President of AMSSM, has a strong clinical record in managing concussion on sideline in football. She led the AMSSM’s consensus document on concussion and here she guides you as to how to interpret current concussion ‘guidelines’ into best practice for your players on game day. She also previews AMSSM’s Annual Meeting - San Diego, April...