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BJSM Podcast
The British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) podcast offers the latest insights in sport and exercise medicine (SEM). Committed to advancing innovation, enhancing education, and translating knowledge into practice and policy, our podcast features dynamic debates on clinically relevant topics in the SEM field. Stay informed with expert discussions and cutting-edge information by subscribing or listening in your favourite podcast platform. Improve your understanding of sports medicine with the BJSM podcast, and visit the BMJ Group’s British Journal of Sports Medicine website - bjsm.bmj.com. BJSM podcast editing and production managed by: Jimmy Walsh.
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Episodes
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
On this week's episode, we are joined by the WHO's Prof Fiona Bull and Dr Juana Willumsen to launch the new WHO 2020 Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour. In this 20-minute podcast, Prof Bull and Dr Willumsen discuss the new global recommendations in depth, explain what has changed since the 2010 guidelines, and outline the next steps forward to creating more active people for a healthier world.
Want to learn more? Check out the BJSM WHO Guidelines special issue (open access!) as well as the WHO website for all the resources.
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
On this week’s episode, we are joined by Prof Christa Janse van Rensburg to discuss the do’s and don’ts of mask wearing during exercise. Prof Janse van Rensburg is a Sport and Exercise Physician who is the Head of Department of the Section Sports Medicine at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
As a three-time Major winner and the current European Ryder Cup team captain, Padraig Harrington is uniquely placed to consider the cultural changes in golf with respect to medicine and performance.
During this two-part conversation with Dr Sean Carmody and Padraig's longtime fitness coach, Dr Liam Hennessey, Padraig provides an insight into his experiences of injury, what he believes contributes to injury, and how a willingness to innovate has helped him to continue playing at the highest level over so many years.
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
As a three-time Major winner and the current European Ryder Cup team captain, Padraig Harrington is uniquely placed to consider the cultural changes in golf with respect to medicine and performance.
During this two-part conversation with Dr Sean Carmody and Padraig's longtime fitness coach, Dr Liam Hennessey, Padraig provides an insight into his experiences of injury, what he believes contributes to injury, and how a willingness to innovate has helped him to continue playing at the highest level over so many years.
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Serenna Williams, Alysson Felix, Kerry Walsh Jennings, Lisa Leslie. Mothers and champions. In this AMSSM Sportsmedcast sports medicine specialist Dr. Rathna Nuti hosts Dr. Ellen Casey, @EllenCaseyMD, Associate Attending Physiatrist in the Department of Physiatry and the Women's Sports Medicine Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Dr Casey who works with US Gymnastics, is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Casey addresses the following topics:
• What are some things to consider when caring for a pregnant athlete?
• Should a pregnant athlete be exercising or training?
• What are some misconceptions surrounding a pregnant athlete and exercise?
• What exercises are recommended?
• What exercises are prohibited?
• Is there any point in time that a pregnant athlete should stop exercising? If so, when can she safely resume?
• Is there any medications or supplements that a pregnant athlete should be taking during her pregnancy?
• Any special medical evaluations that should be assessed by either the OB/GYN or Sports Medicine physician besides to the overall care of the pregnancy?
• What are some common barriers to exercise in pregnant athletes (lumbopelvic pain, fatigue)
• What are some things to consider when returning to sports/exercise after delivery? What are some of the barriers to exercise in postpartum women?
• What is diastasis rectus abdominis? Can anything be done about it?
• What are some of the reasons postpartum women develop urinary incontinence during sports/exercise? Can anything be done about it?
• What do we know about breast feeding and sports participation?
References
Mottola et al. Br J Sports Med 2019 PMID: 30337460
Prather et al. PMR 2012 PMID: 23174548
Bø et al. Br J Sports Med 2016 PMID: 28642221
Meah et al. BJSM 2020 PMID: 32513676
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
On this week’s podcast, Dr. Douglas Casa PhD, ATC and Dr. Francis O’Connor MD, MPH, FAMSSM join Dr. Seth Smith MD, PharmD on AMSSM’s Sports Medcast to discuss exertional heat illness with an emphasis on exertional heat stroke.
In this conversation, Dr. Casa and Dr. O’Connor will address the following topics:
· What is the basic paradigm for the prehospital care of exertional heat stroke (EHS)?
· How to develop a thorough emergency action plan (EAP) for recognition and management of EHS?
· What steps can be taken to help reduce the occurrence of EHS?
· What future items may be used to help guide return to activity for patients who have suffered an EHS?
Listen to an extended version of this conversation on the AMSSM podcast feed, beginning at the 17-minute mark: https://amssm.podbean.com/e/an-in-depth-discussion-on-exertional-heat-illness-with-dr-doug-casa-and-dr-fran-o-connor/
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
A dive into female athlete health with Dr Nicky Keay. Dr Keay is a Sports and Dance Endocrinologist and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University. Many of our listeners will know Nicky from some of her publications in BJSM relating to female athlete health, which we cover in two rich podcasts. For some of the resources mentioned, please see the links below, or check out the BJSM blog homepage, where they will be collated into an interactive blog.
Links:
BASEM website www.health4performance.co.uk (in houses the IOC consensus statements and other published studies in RED-S)
BJSM blogs “Of Mice and Men” https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/11/21/of-mice-and-men-and-women/ and summary of IOC 2018 RED-S update https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2018/05/30/2018-update-relative-energy-deficiency-in-sport-red-s/
Dr Keay's website nickykeayfitness.com
BJSM infographics on RED-S https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/20/1310 and cycling study https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000424
Course for coaches working with female athletes endorsed by BASEM https://sport-ready-academy.teachable.com/p/working-with-high-performing-female-athletes
Blood tests for athletes/dancers (including female hormone profiling) in UK https://www.forthedge.co.uk/
Menstrual monitoring alongside training metrics used at Sottish Ballet as mentioned in podcast https://www.athletemonitoring.com/menstrual-cycle-tracker/
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
A dive into female athlete health with Dr Nicky Keay. Dr Keay is a Sports and Dance Endocrinologist and Honorary Fellow at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University. Many of our listeners will know Nicky from some of her publications in BJSM relating to female athlete health, which we cover in two rich podcasts. For some of the resources mentioned, please see the links below, or check out the BJSM blog homepage, where they will be collated into an interactive blog.
Links:
BASEM website www.health4performance.co.uk (in houses the IOC consensus statements and other published studies in RED-S)
BJSM blogs “Of Mice and Men” https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/11/21/of-mice-and-men-and-women/ and summary of IOC 2018 RED-S update https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2018/05/30/2018-update-relative-energy-deficiency-in-sport-red-s/
Dr Keay's website nickykeayfitness.com
BJSM infographics on RED-S https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/20/1310 and cycling study https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000424
Course for coaches working with female athletes endorsed by BASEM https://sport-ready-academy.teachable.com/p/working-with-high-performing-female-athletes
Blood tests for athletes/dancers (including female hormone profiling) in UK https://www.forthedge.co.uk/
Menstrual monitoring alongside training metrics used at Sottish Ballet as mentioned in podcast https://www.athletemonitoring.com/menstrual-cycle-tracker/
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
On this week’s episode, crowd favourite Dr Alex Hutchinson PhD returns to discuss the difference between effort and pain in the world of endurance. A former Canadian national team middle- and long-distance runner and Cambridge-trained physicist, Alex is an award winning author and columnist who writes for Outside magazine and The Toronto Globe and Mail.
Want to learn more about the science of suffering? Follow @Sweat Science on Twitter and check out his book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Dr. Harvi Hart is a postdoctoral researcher at Western University in London, Ontario, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Hart’s research focuses on identifying risk factors for knee osteoarthritis, both non-traumatic and post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Through better understanding these risk factors, Dr. Hart aims to develop new treatment approaches for managing knee OA. In this episode, Dr. Erin Macri asks Dr. Hart about her most recent studies looking at cadence and its possible role in joint loading and knee osteoarthritis.
Twitter:
@HarviHart
@Erin_Macri
Resources and references
Hart HF, Birmingham TB, Primeau CA, et al. Associations between cadence and knee loading in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2020. Published online first doi:10.1002/acr.24400
Hart HF, Gross KD, Crossley KM, et al. Is step rate associated with worsening of patellofemoral and tibiofemoral joint osteoarthritis in women and men? The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2019. Published online first doi: 10.1002/acr.23864
Lenhart RL, Thelen DG, Wille CM, Chumanov ES, Heiderscheit BC. Increasing running step rate reduces patellofemoral joint forces. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2014; 46: 557-564.
Willy RW, Meardon SA, Schmidt A, Blaylock NR, Hadding SA, Willson JD. Changes in tibiofemoral contact forces during running in response to in-field gait retraining. J Sports Sci 2016; 34: 1602-1611.
Bramah C, Preece SJ, Gill N, Herrington L. A 10% increase in step rate improves running kinematics and clinical outcomes in runners with patellofemoral pain at 4 weeks and 3 months. Am J Sports Med 2019 7:3406-3413.