BJSM Podcast

Fearless cardiologist author, Dr Aseem Malhotra, busts myths and shares Pioppi health secrets

One of the most influential cardiologists in Britain and a world leading expert in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, Dr Aseem Malhotra is a brave advocate for public health initiatives. An award-winning NHS cardiologist, Dr Malhotra has successfully motivated leading academics, the media and politicians to make sugar reduction a health priority in the UK. His academic publications can be found in the BMJ and BJSM (see links below) and he is prominent in mainstream media.
He recently published what is already a best-seller, “the Pioppi Diet: A 21 day lifestyle plan”. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305991/the-pioppi-diet/
Links:
Dr Malhotra explains that if folks want to lose weight they need address eating habits and food choices: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/15/967 “You can’t outrun a bad diet”

Dr Malhotra on saturated fat - it does not clog the arteries. Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced by healthy lifestyle interventions: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111.
Interesting in low-carb eating and the rationale for real food? Here is obesity warrior, Dr Sarah Hallberg on TEDx. She explains how to reverse Type 2 diabetes (‘sugar diabetes’). >2million views! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ
Previous related podcasts:
Dr Aseem Malhotra: You cannot outrun a bad diet. https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/you-cant-outrun-a-bad-diet-draseemmalhotra-on-weight-loss-strategies
Professor Tim Noakes: Time to revisit real food choices. https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/prof-tim-noakes-time-to-revisit-food-choices-the-real-meal-revolution-lchf-summit-for-health
Dr Sarah Hallberg: Why we get fat. https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/why-we-get-fat-insulin-is-a-fat-storing-hormone-dr-sarah-hallberg-renowned-obesity-doctor

Bodies of gods but the teeth don’t match: Oral health crisis among football players

Ian Needleman is a Professor of Restorative Dentistry at the Centre of Oral Health and Performance, University College London (UCL) Eastman Dental Institute. Prof Needleman is on a mission to combat poor oral health in athletes. Alongside his research team, he has proven oral healthcare at the elite level to be poor, that this leads to a decrease in performance and has suggested that oral health screening should be routine for athletes (link to these papers below). You can also check out, download and use an infographic on oral healthcare published in the BJSM (link below).
BJSM's Medical Editor Dr. Liam West caught up with Prof. Needleman at the 2017 IOC Injury and Illness Prevention Conference (Monaco) to discuss why athletes should care about their oral healthcare.
You can find out more from Ian and his team on their website - www.ucl.ac.uk/cohp -
Extra Links
Poor Oral Health in Professional Football Study - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/1/41
Oral health screening should be routine in professional football: a call to action for SEM clinicians - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/21/1295
Oral Healthcare Infographic - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/9/757
London 2012 paper: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/16/1054
Systematic review: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/7/561.3

From the AMSSM: Drilling down into running injuries – what they don’t teach in medical school

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) podcast is hosted by Dr Devin McFadden (Sports Medicine Fellow, Washington D.C) is your host. He chats with Dr Bert Fields (Sports Medicine Physician, Greensborough, North Carolina), Dr Robert Oh (Sports M edicine, Fort Benning, Georgia) and Dr Chad Asplund (Athletic Sports Medicine, Georgia Southern University).
In this podcast (part 2 of 2), the experts on running injuries discuss:
• What is the role of motion control shoes?
• What factors unrelated to footwear do you look for in an injured runner?
• What’s the role of the core?
• Can nutrition contribute to obesity, metabolic syndrome even in distance runners?
• What are the greatest risks to failing to meet your running goals?
Link to Laurent Malisoux’s RCT on injury risk in motion control shoes vs standard shoes: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/8/481 (Free)
Link to part 1 of this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/from-the-amssm-3-sportsmedicine-legends-on-running-injuries-illness-and-footwear
The next AMSSM Annual meeting will be in Orlando, Florida, April 24-29, 2018.

Secrets for clinicians caring for elite and recreational youth athletes: Dr Boris Gojanovic

Dr Boris Gojanovic (@DrSportSante) is a specialist sports medicine physician and a board member of the Swiss Sports Medicine Society. In addition to his Sports Medicine training, he is certified in Internal Medicine (General Medicine).
In this chat about paediatric sports development, training and injuries he shares tips on interdisciplinary management of concussion, knee injuries. He tackles hip pain including that related to femoroacetabular impingement. He reveals his lessons from working as the lead doctor for national teams in the sports of gymnastics and youth triathlon.
The Young Athletes Forum conference is in Montreux, September 21, 22, 2017. http://yaf2017.org/, Twitter @YAFfoundation
Links to related podcasts:
Lars Engebretsen on whether or not to reconstruct the ACL in children: http://ow.ly/1Hzr30e9Fu6
Ben Clarsen on monitoring workload in team settings: http://ow.ly/q6iL30e9FDw

What is golf fitness? Andy Nicholettos talks through sports medicine in golf.

Andy Nicholettos @sportinjuryandy is co-founder and head of sports medicine at Prevail Golf Performance, a specialist academy that blends golf coaching, sports medicine and strength and conditioning practice. Andy is also the author of “a movement in golf performance”.
Aside from golf, Andy is the clinical lead at the Pain Clinic Oxford. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the application of pain science to sports performance, and has contributed to literature spanning exercise physiology, and orthopedics
The discussion includes:
• The Tiger Woods effect
• What is golf fitness?
• Marrying research and clinical practice.
• Back pain in the golfer
• How to get patients off the treatment merry-go-round
• Myths in golf practice

When should we tape? Dr Marie-Elaine Grant, PT. IOC World Congress, Monaco. Host Dr Karen Litzy

New York physiotherapist Dr Karen Litzy @KarenLitzyNYC, host of physio podcast 'Healthy Wealth and Smart' poses the practical questions to Dublin’s Dr Marie-Elaine Grant. Dr Grant has been Ireland’s Olympic Team Chief Physiotherapist since 1992 and Chief Physiotherapist with the IOC Medical Commission for the London 2012 Games.
The discussion includes:
• Whether to tape or brace or not
• For how long should an athlete use tape or brace?
• If the athlete is superstitious? Is it OK to keep taping for luck
• The K-tape question
• Tape falling off – re-tape or not?
• Any adverse events? Contraindications
• How long do the properties of the tape last?
• Bracing vs. neuromuscular training
Download the ‘BJSM’ mobile app to your phone, tablet or desktop computer if you want to benefit from over 200 experts sharing their tips.

Screening for Injury doesn’t work and probably never will, Prof. Roald Bahr.

Prof. Roald Bahr is the Head of the Aspetar Sports Injury & Illness Prevention Programme, Chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and a member of the IOC medical committee. Prof. Bahr’s main research area is the prevention of injury and illness in athletes, and has published more than 200 papers and book chapters.
In this podcast he talks to BJSM's Dr. Liam West about his views on musculoskeletal screening - why it doesn't work and probably never will.
You can access his review paper on this topic using the link below:
Bahr - Why screening tests to predict do not work - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/13/776
Clarsen - Screening is dead. Long live screening! - http://bit.ly/2tPJ5Hu
If you want to catch Prof. Bahr and other keynote speakers get along to the Dutch annual sports medicine scientific conference in Holland on the 23rd and 24th November 2017.
http://www.sportmedischwetenschappelijkjaarcongres.nl/pg-31582-7-113164/pagina/home.html

How to rehabilitate the athlete after shoulder surgery. Top physio Jo Gibson on shoulder and mind

Jo Gibson is a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist at the Liverpool Upper Limb Unit based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, UK. She lectures both nationally and internationally about rehabilitation of the shoulder. Her research interests are shoulder instability and motor learning. Jo is currently Squad Physiotherapist for the Great Britain Endurance riding Team.

Dr Jeremy Lewis clarifies shoulder confusion: Common pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dr. Jeremy Lewis is a Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Musculoskeletal Research (University of Limerick, Ireland). Originally born in New Zealand, he trained in Australia before moving to England where he now works in both the Public (NHS) and Private sectors.
Dr. Lewis has distinguished himself and become a globally respected voice in the area complex shoulder issues in both clinical and research capacities.
This podcast has been adapted from one originally published by our friends Kinetic Labs (https://kineticlabs.ca/ - where you can find the full version). Dr. Lewis shares his thoughts with the listeners on;
• Shoulder Impingement
• Rotator Cuff tears
• Shoulder special tests and why they aren't that special
• Shoulder Surgery
• Shoulder Symptom Modification Procedures and how they help treat patients
• What mistakes we commonly make when treating shoulder pain
For extra podcast resources on shoulder issues in SEM, check out;
• Practical Clinical Shoulder Pearls with Adam Meakins - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/shoulder-focus-with-leading-sports-physiotherapist-adam-meakins-practical-clinical-pearls?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• Prof McCormack on whether to operate on Shoulder Dislocations - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/shoulder-dislocation-to-operate-or-rehabilitate-prof-bob-mccormack-olympic-physician?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• Scapular Summit with Ben Kibler - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/scapular-summit-2013?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• 5 Clinical shoulder tips with Dr. Mark Hutchinson - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/five-clinical-tips-for?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• Prof Jeremy Lewis on Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/prof-jeremy-lewis-rotator-cuff?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• Shoulder Injuries with Ann Cools - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/shoulder-injuries-with-ann?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• The Shoulder in Sport with Ben Kibler - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/the-shoulder-in-sport-with-ben?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1
• Clinical assessment of the Tennis Shoulder with Ben Kibler - https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/dr-ben-kibler-examination-and-diagnosis-of-the-tennis-player-part-one?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1

Treating low back pain in sport—Dr Fiona Wilson. 15 pearls from vast rowing experience

Assistant Professor Dr Fiona Wilson is a Chartered Physiotherapist in the discipline of Physiotherapy, Trinity College, Ireland. She has over 25 years of clinical experience in the UK, South Africa and Ireland. She has worked with elite and international athletes throughout her career and was Lead Physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland for 10 years.
Her research has focused on sport and exercise medicine with a special focus on rowing and back pain and recently in rugby and concussion. She is editorial board member for BJSM and was awarded the prestigious Cochrane Fellowship in 2012.
In this podcast Dr Wilson shares wisdom on topics such as:
• Managing back pain in the mature rower
• 3 common pitfalls / stroke issues to assess
• How to assess the rowing athlete
• How rowers monitor load / or not
• How you can use technology and apps to monitor rowers
• How to apply lessons from rowing to managing back pain in all sports and among the general public
• Debate on stability and mobility – are planks associated with increased incidence of back pain?
3 previous BJSM podcasts on back pain in sport include the very popular:
• Tiger Woods – soon after his 2014 spinal surgery, @PeteOSullivanPT (Prof Peter O’Sullivan) feared for the worst. Was surgery a good idea? Remember this conversation predated Tiger Woods’ plunging down the world ranking. https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/professor-peter-osullivan-peteosullivanpt-on-tiger-woods-back-and-core-strength
• Tiger Woods – 2015 update. With @PeteOSullivanPT after a 2nd operation a year later. How helpful is the postoperative MRI scan? https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/test
• Dr Kieran O’Sullivan (no relation to Peter above) shares 7 habits of highly effective clinicians who manage back pain. It’s had 23K listens! https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/dr-kieran-osullivan-on-managing-back-pain-7-habits-of-highly-effective-clinicians-part-2-2016