Running biomechanics and footwear’s (from bare feet to orthotics) relationship to injury generates lively debate. And not just among sports clincians. A recent NY times article boldly asked – Does Foot Form Explain Running Injuries? The article profile’s the running professor, Daniel Lieberman’s (Evolutionary Biologist, Harvard) and Mr. Daoud’s (Medical Student, Stanford) research on 4 […]
Category: Injury prevention
Rural sport and exercise medicine in the highlands of Scotland – working with Shinty!
Guest blog by Dr Jonathan Hanson FFSEM Like many doctors in sport for years I have relied upon the goodwill of colleagues and employers in the remote corner of Scotland I call home. Last year I felt the time had come to give something back to the local sport in my region, rather than consistently […]
Injury surveillance on young elite athletes participating in the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck/Austria
BJSM e-letter by: Gerhard Ruedl and Wolfgang Schobersberger E-letter for: Kathrin Steffen, Lars Engebretsen. The Youth Olympic Games and a new awakening for sports and exercise medicine. BJSM. 2011; 45: 1251-1252 (Warm up) Do we really want to see our young promising talents go through a major injury at one stage into their career? Definitely no! However, […]
Prevention is better than cure: SEM in the prevention of musculoskeletal injury
Guest Blog by Dr Sarah Davies Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A monthly series on the BJSM blog) “The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.” Hippocrates It’s that time of year when the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future […]
The old and the young: Ideal targets for injury prevention
Guest Blog by @CarolineFinch Cross Fertilising ‘Injury Prevention’ journal (IP) and BJSM The December 2011 issue of Injury Prevention, BJSM’s sister journal, highlights that musculoskeletal and activity-related injuries occur in both the old and the young. These are great targets for sports medicine professionals to ensure high quality of life through lifelong functionality and sustained active […]
Methods for identifying repeat treatment episodes and adjusting for risk factor transient exposures
Guest Blog by @CarolineFinch Cross Fertilising ‘Injury Prevention’ journal (IP) and BJSM Sports injury epidemiologists with a methodological bent will benefit from two papers published in the October issue of the BJSM’s sister journal, Injury Prevention. In the first paper, Davie et al. discuss how to identify re-admissions for the same injury from hospital discharge data. […]
Moneyball: Rewarding excellent sports medicine care. But check your indemnity limit. You may need more if treating elite professional athletes.
UKsem was the first conference to have a ‘Moneyball’ panel session; attendees voted with their feet that this should happen again. What’s ‘Moneyball’? The unabridged term refers to Michael Lewis’ book of that name. It’s about a baseball team who performed much better than they should have by recruiting cheap players who didn’t have the […]
Fitness and health of children through sport: the context for action – Guest Blog Caroline Finch
(follow Caroline Finch on Twitter — @CarolineFinch) This relates to: Micheli, L, Mountjoy, M, and Engebretsen, L et al. 2011. Fitness and health of children through sport: the context for action. BJSM. 45:931-936 I read, with great interest, the paper by Micheli et al [1]in the September Injury Prevention and Health Promotion issue of the […]
Learning from Injury Prevention Researchers
The August 2011 issue of Injury Prevention (sister journal to the BJSM ) included an editorial from me with my views on an apparent unfortunate divide between sports medicine and injury prevention researchers. The two groups rarely meet at the same conferences or read the same journals and so there is somewhat of a lack […]
New editoral from Prof. Finch- Updating the international research agenda for sport injury prevention
Professor Caroline Finch is a leading advocate for decreasing the divide between the science and practice of injury prevention through greater cross-fertilization in the fields of injury and sports medicine research. In the June 24, 2011 edition of BJSM’s sister journal Injury Prevention, Prof Finch offers a concise summary: Updating the international research agenda for […]