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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
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Jon Drezner, BJSM’s senior associate editor for sports cardiology, discusses prevention of sudden cardiac death. Jon discusses where ECG fits into screening, training sport physicians to confidently interpret ECGs, and the utility of automated external defibrillators.Jon is also president-elect of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine, and he gives us a preview of the 2012 annual meeting in Atlanta (April 21-25).To listen to Jon Drezner’s opening keynote presentation at the IOC’s 3rd World Congress on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport (a joint lecture with Professor Antonio Pellucia), follow this link [http://www.ioc-preventionconference.org/] and see the ‘Online Presentations’ tab on the top right of the screen.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
BASEM’s chair of education, Dr Andrew Franklyn-Miller, highlights the July issue of BJSM and previews the UKsem Congress in November 2011.Listen to an introduction to Marije T Elferink-Gemser’s paper [http://bit.ly/15DGYDR] on what it takes to be an elite athlete. Another paper of particular interest [http://bit.ly/mLoMpk] highlights the role of proximal stabilisers (eg hip) in patellofemoral pain.Considering the UKsem conference in London, November 23-26? You won’t regret it. Dr AFM discusses the key activities in the second half of the podcast.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
South african sports medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years. In this podcast, president of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) Jon Patricios, and University of Cape Town professor Tim Noakes, share their views on the past, present and future of sports medicine in Africa.Patricios and Noakes review the influence of the 2011 FIFA World Cup on african sports medicine, and highlight the ‘Football For Health’ program which is underpinned by research published in BJSM in 2010 and 2011.Professor Noakes also discusses the Central Governor Model of performance and the role of industry in excessively promoting over-drinking in endurance events.Lastly, a preview of the 2011 SASMA Congress.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Exercise on prescription in Sweden started in the 1980s, and has now become widespread in the country. To help primary care clinicians navigate the evidence on prescribing exercise, the Swedish Institute of Public Health have produced the book Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (available for personal use from http://www.fyss.se)In this podcast Mai-Lis Hellénius and Carl Johan Sundberg, two of the authors of the book, share their experience of exercise on prescription in Sweden, and give some tips for clinicians thinking of following their model.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
This podcast focuses on recent advances in sports imaging – particularly side-line ultrasound and the use of MR imaging at sporting venues where teams are based. It adds to the discussion raised in several papers in the December 2010 issues of BJSM (#16)The print issue has editorials by Kim Harmon and Fran O’Connor (AMSSM) [http://bit.ly/Y1bIfQ], as well by the head of Olympic radiology at Vancouver 2010 – Bruce Forster [http://bit.ly/10aB8lt].One of the papers discussed in the podcast [http://bit.ly/10aB8lt] relates to use of ultrasound at the sporting venue to undertake injections pre- and post-game.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Treating tendinopathies remains a challenge, despite many advances in the past decade. Listen to practical tips and a tip to consider the time course of tendon injury when making treatment decisions.More information can be found in Professor Cook’s paper Is tendon pathology a continuum? A pathology model to explain the clinical presentation of load-induced tendinopathy http://bit.ly/R0PDbTSee also:Jeremy Lewis on shoulder tendinopathy http://bit.ly/mm3C1fTendon-focussed issue, BJSM #5, April 2011http://bit.ly/11A4rRb
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
In this edition of the BJSM podcast, Robert Jan de Vos and Adam Weir discuss their research on the efficacy of platelet rich plasma injections for the treatment of tendon injury.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
In this edition of the BJSM podcast, human movement specialist Evert Verhagen discusses ankle sprains and rehabilitation.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Everything you wanted to know about the Zurich International Conference on ConcussionThe Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2008 is BJSM’s top download and this podcast takes you behind the scenes.Professor Paul McCrory shares the reasons behind recent changes in management of concussion and provides practical tips for you to prevent concussion and treat it where necessary.Part 3: You are the expert – you teach concussion to fellows and you can recite the SCAT2 even if you have profound headache and retrograde amnesia. Professor McCrory provides tips from the Consensus Statement that have you on the same page as the 27 experts in Zurich. And maybe you were one of them. Listen anyway, send any additional tips to the BJSM blog (http://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/) and share the news of this practical podcast.Related articles:http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/vol43/Suppl_1/ (Contents page for the Concussion Supplement)http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/43/Suppl_1/i76 (Main Consensus Statement)http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/43/Suppl_1/i85 (SCAT2)http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/43/Suppl_1/i89 (Pocket SCAT2)
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Tuesday Apr 23, 2013
Everything you wanted to know about the Zurich International Conference on ConcussionThe Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport: the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2008 is BJSM’s top download and this podcast takes you behind the scenes.Professor Paul McCrory shares the reasons behind recent changes in management of concussion and provides practical tips for you to prevent concussion and treat it where necessary.Part 2:Professor McCrory provides advice based on the Consensus Statement for the more junior clinician. You can’t remember whether the previous Consensus meeting was in Vienna or Prague (why do they get to go to all the cool places), you may have only learned about concussion in your university training (eek!) or you may not have worked in sports where concussion is prevalent. Now you are about to cover boxing or Australian Rules Football. Whack this podcast on your iPod and listen to it ringside (that team applies to Australian Football, don’t worry).Related articles:http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/vol43/Suppl_1/ (Contents page for the Concussion Supplement)http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/43/Suppl_1/i76 (Main Consensus Statement)http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/43/Suppl_1/i85 (SCAT2)http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/43/Suppl_1/i89 (Pocket SCAT2)