BJSM Podcast

Karim Khan talks to Steven Blair, professor at the Arnold School of Public Health, South Carolina. Professor Blair discusses the wealth of evidence he’s built up on the benefits of exercise, why physical inactivity is a bigger problem than obesity, and how much and of what we should all be doing. 0.51 Why physical inactivity is a greater health problem than obesity 3.20 Why physical inactivity is...

Babette Pluim (BJSM’s deputy editor) talks to Ben Kibler (medical director of the Lexington Clinic Sports Medicine Center, Lexington, Kentucky) about his varied and prolific career in tennis and baseball sports medicine. Dr Kibler discusses his research on the shoulder and also the tennis serve, the importance of considering biomechanics in injury prevention and recovery, and the role of surgery....

Tom Best, co-medical director of Ohio State University Sports Medicine and professor of Family Medicine, OSU College of Medicine, talks about his work on the treatment of hamstring injuries. 1.00 - Clinical scenario: acute hamstring injury 4.15 - Recovery time 9.34 - Considerations before returning to sport 17.00 - Recurrence 19.30 - Use of NSAIDs 23.30 - Role of massage in sports medicine injurie...

Pregnancy is hardly an uncommon condition in women, so what are the ins and out of exercise during those nine months? Harriet Vickers (BMJ’s assistant multimedia producer) talks to Bronwyn Bell (consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist) about the benefits and risks of physical activity from conception to postpartum, and how to look after women at different levels of fitness. 0:00 Conception: Gett...

In this podcast, also recorded at UKSEM, Babette Pluim (BJSM deputy editor) interviews Glen Hageman (president of the South African Sports Medicine Association). They discuss the work of SASMA, and plans for the future.

Karim Khan talks to Michael Turner about his career as chief medical advisor for the British Horse Racing Association.

In anther podcast recorded at the UKSEM conference held in London in November, Karim Khan (BJSM editor) talks to Lars Engebretsen (head of science and research for the International Olympic Committee). They discuss the IOC’s work in trauma research, health promotion, and the BJSM-IOC special issues. 2:32: The launch of the IOC’s focus on injury prevention and health promotion (IPHP). 4:00 - Period...

Hamstring injuries are the most prevalent muscle injuries in sport. Symptoms can be particularly prolonged, healing response poor, and the risk of re-injury high. Carl Askling (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) has been trialling a new way of categorising these injuries, thinking about them as high-speed running or stretching types. He explains to Karim Khan how these types can be diagnosed and the...

BJSM editor Karim Khan talks to Michael Turner about his time as chief medical adviser of the Lawn Tennis Association, including the medical scandals that have cropped up and the advances he’s seen in the game’s sports medicine. Dr Turner is also chief medical adviser for the British Horseracing Authority, but more of that in a future podcast…

We’re well down the road to London 2012, but getting here has taken a herculean feat of organisation. In this BJSM podcast Richard Budgett, Chief Medical Officer British Olympic Association, explains how LOCOG has prepared to meet the medical needs of the olympians, their entourage, and their fans.

Coming together at the UKSEM conference in London, Professor Lars Engebretsen (Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and IOC medical commission) talks to Dr Richard Frobell (Lund University, Malmo, Sweden) about his work on return to exercise after ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury. Dr Frobell describes the evidence already on this issue, and his recently published randomized trial on whether s...

Diagnosing chronic exertional compartment syndrome relies on measuring intramuscular pressure, however Andrew Franklyn-Miller (Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin; education director at BASEM) has shown the criteria for this are flawed (2.51). He talks to BJSM editor Karim Khan about what clinicians can do to get round this, his theory the condition is caused by biomechanical overload and his work looki...

Whether to opt for exercise treatment, new ‘biological therapies’ like platelet-rich plasma (PRP), or surgery is a clinical challenge. Sweden’s Professor Håkan Alfredson has unique experience in considering these options for patients with Achilles pain. He has 15 years experience as an international leader in sports and exercise medicine. In this podcast, he tells BJSM’s editor Karim Khan how to m...

Zoals u weet heeft de VSG deze zomer een samenwerking gesloten met de British Journal of Sports Medicine. Door de samenwerking heeft sportarts Adam Weir een podcast opgenomen met directeur Anja Bruinsma van de Vereniging voor Sportgeneeskunde. Anja Bruinsma gaat in op: Samenwerking VSG en BJSM, erkenning sportgeneeskunde, wetenschapsdomein, centraal stellen van de sporter en de toekomst van de spo...

VSG’s (the sports medicine society of the Netherlands) editor-in-chief Hans Tol and congress committee member Adam Weir highlight the October issue of BJSM and preview the VSG Annual Meeting on 1-2 December 2011. The first paper highlighted is from Collard et al [http://bit.ly/ZFQS3U], who have calculated the economic costs of organised sports, leisure time physical activities and physical educati...

Ultrasound is rapidly revolutionising point-of-care medicine in many specialties. The last few years have seen technological advances make musculoskeletal ultrasound more practical, opening up opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. In this podcast, BJSM’s editor Karim Khan investigates the value of musculoskeletal ultrasound and how to integrate it into practice, with Kim Harm...

In this BJSM podcast, Karim Khan talks to Anthony Beutler (Injury Prevention Research Lab, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland) about the JUMP-ACL study http://www.iprc.unc.edu/jumpacl/. It is a large prospective cohort study which investigates risk factors for ACL injury - results will be published soon. They discuss the mechanism of ACL injury in different athletes, the risk of rec...

Karim Khan catches up with associate professor Michele Sterling (Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), University of Queenstown, Australia) at the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Congress. As an international expert on neck pain, Michele explains what we currently do and don’t know about whiplash, and advises on managing the condition. She talks us thr...

Dr Mike Loosemore is a consultant in sports and exercise medicine who works at the English Institute of Sport and the University College London Hospital. In this podcast he emphasises the importance of clinicians taking an exercise/activity history. (See link Developing healthcare systems to support exercise: exercise as the fifth vital sign http://bit.ly/17Uhlyc). He provides practical tips for cl...

Professor Jiri Dvorak, one of BJSM’s senior associate editors, shares his 17 years experience as the FIFA chief medical officer. He discusses How FIFA have reduced injuries in football [1], The evidence for football being a great medicine [2 a ,b] ‘Football for Health’ – FIFA’s successful foray into public health education in schools [3]. This is a terrific story of research turning into action –...

Jon Drezner, BJSM’s senior associate editor for sports cardiology, discusses prevention of sudden cardiac death. Jon discusses where ECG fits into screening, training sport physicians to confidently interpret ECGs, and the utility of automated external defibrillators. Jon is also president-elect of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine, and he gives us a preview of the 2012 annual meetin...

BASEM’s chair of education, Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller, highlights the July issue of BJSM and previews the UKsem Congress in November 2011. Listen to an introduction to Marije T Elferink-Gemser’s paper [http://bit.ly/15DGYDR] on what it takes to be an elite athlete. Another paper of particular interest [http://bit.ly/mLoMpk] highlights the role of proximal stabilisers (eg hip) in patellofemoral pai...

South african sports medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years. In this podcast, president of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) Jon Patricios, and University of Cape Town professor Tim Noakes, share their views on the past, present and future of sports medicine in Africa. Patricios and Noakes review the influence of the 2011 FIFA World Cup on african sports medicine, and hi...

Exercise on prescription in Sweden started in the 1980s, and has now become widespread in the country. To help primary care clinicians navigate the evidence on prescribing exercise, the Swedish Institute of Public Health have produced the book Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (available for personal use from http://www.fyss.se) In this podcast Mai-Lis Hellénius and Carl...

This podcast focuses on recent advances in sports imaging – particularly side-line ultrasound and the use of MR imaging at sporting venues where teams are based. It adds to the discussion raised in several papers in the December 2010 issues of BJSM (#16) The print issue has editorials by Kim Harmon and Fran O’Connor (AMSSM) [http://bit.ly/Y1bIfQ], as well by the head of Olympic radiology at Vancou...