{"id":1254,"date":"2011-05-05T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2011-05-06T19:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:30:57","slug":"ultrasound-in-the-sports-medicine-office-%e2%80%93-a-top-gear-review-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/05\/05\/ultrasound-in-the-sports-medicine-office-%e2%80%93-a-top-gear-review-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrasound in the Sports Medicine Office \u2013 A Top Gear Review Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Having just attended the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amssm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Medical Society for Sports Medicine <\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amssm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">(<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amssm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AMSSM)<\/a> meeting in Salt Lake City (see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/45\/2\/79.full?sid=0b8861c2-1c11-4172-b28a-07ecfd4a4c68\" target=\"_blank\">BJSM Warm Up Feb 2011<\/a><\/strong>) I couldn\u2019t help but be impressed by the progress in ultrasound (US) technology. Smaller, cheaper, better \u2013 tremendous advances. Over the next four weeks we will review: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"top-gear_2\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2011\/05\/top-gear_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i) <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/44\/16\/1133.full?sid=338866ee-0f41-4ed2-bedc-2752af90fbd6\" target=\"_blank\">The AMSSM curriculum for US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ii) Discuss clinicians\u2019 use of US in competitive sport and where you can find training courses<\/p>\n<p>iii) Review papers that have used US in various body parts (patellar tendon, knee, and low back to name a few) and;<\/p>\n<p>iv) Solicit guest blogs sharing user\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p>Just like on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top Gear<\/a><\/strong> we\u2019ll test drive some instruments and find out which are the sleek Ferraris, the workhorse Toyotas, and which lemons to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Have ideas to contribute to the series? Please let us know via the comment section below, or email: <a href=\"mailto:karim.khan@ubc.ca\"><strong>karim.khan@ubc.ca<\/strong><\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just attended the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) meeting in Salt Lake City (see BJSM Warm Up Feb 2011) I couldn\u2019t help but be impressed by the progress in ultrasound (US) technology. Smaller, cheaper, better \u2013 tremendous advances. Over the next four weeks we will review: i) The AMSSM curriculum for US [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2011\/05\/05\/ultrasound-in-the-sports-medicine-office-%e2%80%93-a-top-gear-review-series\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,187,179,1865],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-hot-topic","category-reviewing","category-sport-and-exercise-medicine-discipline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}