In a universal quest to ensure that sports injury prevention efforts actually do work because athletes and other participants actually do what we recommend they do, there have been increasing calls for more attention towards understanding the drivers of sports injury prevention from a behavioural perspective. It is concerning, therefore, that the sports injury research […]
Category: Guest Posts
Debating weight change and performance in marathon runners: Armstrong, Johnson, and Munoz guest blog (e-letter)
We write to present alternative interpretations of the data published by Zouhal and colleagues, in the BJSM article: Inverse relationship between percentage body weight change and finishing time in 643 forty-two-kilometre marathon runners The Abstract states that “… these data are not compatible with laboratory-derived data suggesting that BW [body weight] loss greater than 2% during […]
Role of pacing in speed skating and cycling (see video!): Florentina J Hettinga guest blogs for BJSM
At about this time last year, the Winter Olympics took place in Vancouver. In my country (the Netherlands) this is a very important event, being raised (or maybe even born if we think of Mark Tuitert, Ireen Wűst and Sven Kramer…) with speed skates on our feet. However, since it is also the year before the […]
Athletes may shave without ending like Samson
Shaving may be a daily ritual for most men, but for athletes it is much more open to debate. Some athletes shave with a vengeance : cyclists shave their legs by tradition and to make easier cleaning road rash and massages, swimmers may even shave their entire body (particularly before swimming suits were authorized) to […]
Risks of flying with sporting teams
This article relates the personal experience of a well-known Australian sports physician. Although thromboembolic events are reasonably uncommon among our athletes, flying is almost ubiquitous in our profession so this has more relevance than some of us might have anticipated when studying the clotting cascade in medical school. Peter Brukner’s Personal Perspective from MJA […]
Hot Topic: The Truth Behind Doping Scandals
By John Orchard One of the worst ever drugs in sport decisions – and there have been some shockers, such as Andrea Raducan losing a gymnastics Gold medal at the Sydney Olympics for taking a Sudafed tablet – was handed down by the International Tennis Federation late last week. Italy’s Filippo Volandri was banned for […]
Letter to the Editor: Does exercise training during pregnancy affect gestational age?
By Adriana Suely de Oliveira Melo, MD, MSc et al. Barakat et al. 1 have presented us with a paper of excellent methodological quality, following all the steps recommended in the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) and dealing with a question that never fails to generate controversy with respect to the practice of physical […]
Jon Drezner addresses a tough cardiac question in kids…
In this March issue of BJSM, Wilson and colleagues investigate sudden cardiac death: [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] This emotional and very important area of sports medicine always raises the issue of how many children how have cardiac abnormalities may need to be disqualified from sport to save one life. Editorial Board member Jon Drezner posted […]
Expedition Medicine – Polar Medicine – Feb 2008
Article by Dr Claire Roche, Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine, Countess of Chester Hospital. The setting for this year’s polar medicine course was Alta, a small settlement, 72 degrees north and well within the Arctic Circle. A place with a deserted high street where you would be lucky to see one other passer by every […]