Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A BJSM blog series) By Dr Justin Yeoh The flu may be an “un-sexy” aspect of Sports and Exercise Medicine, but it is nonetheless a topic of importance. Especially given that it is exceptionally common this time of year and afflicts athletes worldwide. The NHS recommends an influenza […]
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Vote now! 2102 BJSM cover competition
‘Tis the season to vote for your favourite BJSM cover…. At BJSM we value the artistic merit of our covers, and the opinions of our readers. Here is the second annual BJSM cover competition. You (and your friends) will have five rounds of opportunity to vote for your favourite cover. The winner of each preliminary round will move […]
Suicide, sport and medicine: more education and awareness needed for athletes’ mental health
By Dr. Kerry Lang I was very interested to read Dominic Malcolm and Andrea Scott’s BJSM editorial on suicide, sport and medicine (2012) and agree that more attention should be paid to the psychological welfare of athletes. I am a doctor, albeit not a psychiatrist, and have also been part of the British triathlon team since 2005. On several […]
Register now! Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young. CME course (January 17 & 18, 2013)
Nick of Time Foundation invites you to a continuing medical education course (CME) titled “Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young” to be held at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle, WA on January 17 & 18, 2013. Sponsored by the University of Washington School of Medicine, Dept. of Family Medicine and Office of […]
What’s hot what’s not? An anatomy apps review from an SEM perspective
By Dr Brinda Christopher Sport and Exercise Medicine: The UK trainee perspective (A BJSM blog series) Keeping up to date with new medical app releases can be time consuming and often unrewarding. This is partly due to poorly organized app stores and over zealous medical app websites written by generalists. For that reason I reviewed several […]
McArdle Olympians – lessons from patients’ own experiences
By Dr. Alejandro Lucia and Mr. Andrew Wakelin In this guest blog, we present self-reports of exercise accomplishments by McArdle patients. Glycogenosis type V (glycogen storage disease type V [GSD V], McArdle disease or myophosphorylase deficiency) is a relatively rare (e.g. prevalence of ~1/167,000 Spanish people) disorder of skeletal-muscle carbohydrate metabolism inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. […]
Sports Medicine: Inspiring the next generation (Part 2 of 2)
Undergraduate perspective on Sports & Exercise Medicine – a BJSM blog series By Liam West (@Liam_West) & Dr. Peter Brukner (@PeterBrukner) The second of this two part interview series exploring the field of Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM) is with Dr. Peter Brukner (PB). He is a world renowned name in SEM, co-authors Clinical Sports Medicine […]
Physical activity effectively promoted to Arabic speaking countries through translation and social media dissemination of viral video ‘23½ hours’
By Ann Gates (@exerciseworks), Dr Mike Evans (@docmikeevans) and Dr SalihAlAnsari (@SaudiHPC) The World Health Organisation describes physical activity promotion to mass populations as one of its top 5 ‘Best Buys’. We collaborated to develop an Arabic version of the viral social media success 23 ½ hours to promote the importance of regular exercise to […]
Extreme Physical Activity Promotion: Doc Murray to run 7 Ultra Marathons on all 7 continents within 7 days
In the spirit of extreme physical activity promotion, Doc Andrew Murray is off today (weather permitting in Antarctica) to run 7 Ultra Marathons on all 7 continents within 7 days. He’s doing this to raise awareness of the benefits of exercise (he now works on this issue for the Scottish Government) and also for The Scottish Association for […]
And the winner of the BJSM education content poll is…
…Groin pain/ hip pain! That’s right, out of close to 100 respondents, nearly half indicated that they want more BJSM education content on groin pain / hip pain. We will be sure to take these results back to BMJ headquarters. The full break down of poll results are: Groin pain/ hip pain: 49% Management of […]