The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) recently approved new rules governing the eligibility of women with hyperandrogenism for competition. The IAAF aims to avoid future controversy similar to “the case” of Caster Semenya who won the World Championship in 2009 for the 800 m in Berlin (watch race here). 3 weeks prior to the […]
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Good medicine: sports medicine. A response to recent criticism of sports medicine in BMJ
Guest blog by Dr. Malachy McHugh If the purpose of Des Spence’s article Bad Medicine: Sports Medicine (British Medical Journal, March 30 2011) is to strike a chord with sports medicine professionals then it has probably done its job. However, as a piece of scientific writing this lacks objectivity to put it mildly. The sports medicine […]
Consussion podcast still timely – McCrory on Consensus Statement
Concussion, concussion, concussion – has dominated the media over the past months. Major injuries to kids, research suggesting long-term problems, even the American Neurology Association updating their guidelines, now Sidney Crosby sits on the sidelines at millions of dollars 🙂 a day. BJSM afficionados will be aware but as we get new readers and blog […]
‘Theft of wellness’ or preventive medicine?
As clinicians we are always challenged to ‘primum non nocere’ – first of all do no harm. Unfortunately, this is not so easy – as those who have died as a results of iatrogenesis know only too well. Ray Moynihan has been at the forefront of ‘critical self-reflection’ in our professions and he was in […]
Guest Blog – Wayne Hall weighs in on Genomic Screening
Professor Wayne Hall commented on the ‘modest’ impacts of population genomic screening in October last year in the prestigious PLoS journal (open access, yeah!!) After reading last Friday’s BJSM blog relating to Prof Tim Caulfield’s ‘Deflating the Genomics Bubble’ paper in Science,’ Prof Hall provided this first-hand background story to his PLoS paper: The aim […]
Preventing sports injuries – here are success strategies! Guest blog Professor Caroline Finch –
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 […]
Deflating the Genomic Bubble (in Science!)** Big news
This paper in today’s issue of Science is going to get a lot of attention because it has multibillion (yes, billion, of not trillion) dollar implications. The thoughtful, balanced perspective should influence health policy from the WHO through to the NIH and lead public health agencies the world over. The international authors are not alone in making […]
Congratulations Sweden! http://www.fyss.se/
No apologies for plugging the Swedish National Institute for Public Health who have produced an amazing medical tool – evidence based exercise prescription for many, many, medical conditions. If you are in the UK you will be familar with the BNF – this should accompany every BNF and be used more often! In Australia the […]
Gotta love this one – pay to skip a workout!
The brilliant authors of Freakonomics via the New York Times. See the full story. […]
BJSM Blog via Kindle – easier than ever!
I have to confess to not having a Kindle yet but I see them being used more and more when I do my random airplane flight surveys! Lots of Kindle e-readers, some Sony Readers, and of course lots of iPad aficionados. And then there are the folks playing Solitaire on some amazing technology. Can you […]