Leon Creaney, SEM Physician, BUPA Dear Sir, I congratulate the IOC Consensus panel on having produced as clear a summary of the current understanding of the basic and clinical science relating to PRP as the body of published literature allows. While there was initially great hope in Sport Medicine circles that PRP would become the magic […]
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More on exergames…health promoting or sly marketing?
Today’s quick blog post links to a site suggesting that exergames are designed to ‘replace sedentary behaviour‘ rather than to replace exercise! Mmm?? Clever marketing? Even the term ‘exergame’ is thought provoking. See the other recent BJSM Blog Post about exergames. What do you think? Please post your comments below. […]
Shortcut to top advances for 2010
I loved the idea behind this BMJ Blog by Domhnall MacAuley and the papers are fascinating! What a year it has been for sport and exercise medicine. Patients truly better off as a result of all this work. Great stuff!And think of those misguided souls who thought that sports and exercise medicine wasn’t a substantial […]
Paradox in Australia – ‘crediting’ the sport and exercise medicine specialty but forcing patients to pay more to see the docs!
Recent specialist status has led Australian sports and exercise physicians receiving more referrals from GPs; MRI referral is also in the specialist’s scope of practice. However, at the same time as these physicians were recognized for having special expertise in exercise prescription — addressing the worlds biggest public health problem — physical inactivity, patient rebates […]
Lateral hip pain – more likely gluteus medius tendinopathy than ‘trochanteric bursitis’
Our New Zealand colleagues had a great sports medicine conference in Wellington this week following their successful hosting of the World Championships in Rowing. Congratulations to Dr Chris Milne and colleagues from all disciplines who made this a success. In a conversation with Chris I was reminded that the lateral hip pain label of ‘trochanteric […]
Worst Drinks in The World – Drinks that Kill You with Calories
This smorgasbord of liquid cardiac stress tests is fascinating because some of them look so benign (see SoBe Tea). And I’ve even handled some of these weapons of self-destruction (the Starbucks logo is so pretty against a coffee background). And feel free to check back to Neil King and John Blundell’s review in the December […]
E-Letter: Performance anomalies in running shoe design: Psychological factors?
The following E-Letter is a response to The effect of three different levels of footwear stability on pain outcomes in women runners: a randomised control trial . Abstract | Full article Ryan et al (1) provide empirical evidence that standards for running shoes in relation to foot posture are far from convincing. In particular, a sophisticated […]
Exercise alone won’t cut it for Canada’s obese
A recent Vancouver Sun article discusses new findings in the role of diet and exercise in obesity. Click here to read the story. http://www.flickr.com/photos/78428166@N00/ / CC BY 2.0 […]
Cold Water Immersion Recovery
Cold Water Immersion is one of the latest trends in encouraging recovery. At the Olympics several swim teams set up immersion tanks on the warm-up pool deck for “recovery”. What are your thoughts? Do you have evidence that they help? Please do share your thoughts on Cold Water Immersion with us at the BJSM. […]
‘Bloodgate’: Professional Boundaries and Top Level Sport
(Via timesonline.co.uk) The doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” scandal at Harlequins has been suspended from practising medicine pending further investigations into her conduct. Wendy Chapman, a hospital consultant, has been forbidden by the General Medical Council (GMC) from working as a doctor amid allegations that she deliberately cut the lip of Tom Williams, the […]