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

Friday Jul 01, 2022

This BJSM podcast discusses how health care professionals can learn from the sports psychology world. Noting the similarities between athletes and health care professionals Dr Helen Church has put together a new PERFORM (Performance Enhancing Routine for Optimisation of Readiness using Metacognition) framework, using Performance Enhancing Routines to improve clinical performance. She provides practical advice on how you and your practise can benefit from simple sport psychology measures giving some fantastic examples for inspiration.
Dr Helen Church is a GP trainee and academic clinical lecturer at the University of Nottingham, working as a clinical assistant professor in medical education. This podcast is hosted by Dr Shona Kohlhardt.
Links to useful papers further discussing sports psychology in clinical performance:
1. Using Insights From Sports Psychology to Improve Recently Qualified Doctors’ Self-Efficacy While Managing Acutely Unwell Patients (Church et al., 2021) https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2021/05000/Using_Insights_From_Sports_Psychology_to_Improve.41.aspx
2. Applying sport psychology in health professions education: A systematic review of performance mental skills training (Sandars et al., 2021)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2021.196643
3. Applying sport psychology to improve clinical performance (Church et al., 2017)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2017.135953
4. What can medical educators learn from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games? (Church et al., 2017)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2016.127040

Friday Jun 24, 2022

One of the silver linings of COVID-19 pandemic is the increased adoption of telehealth in allied health and sports medicine services for people with musculoskeletal conditions. In this podcast we talk to Dr Allison Ezzat about the experiences and attitudes of patients and clinicians in using telehealth. Allison has led the creation of a telehealth toolkit for patients and clinicians and discusses the future of telehealth. Allison is a Canadian physiotherapist, and a current post-doctoral research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia.
“It's second best”: A mixed-methods evaluation of the experiences and attitudes of people with musculoskeletal pain towards physiotherapist delivered telehealth during COVID-19 pandemic - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468781221001843?via%3Dihub
Canadian Physiotherapists Integrate Virtual Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/ptc-2022-0092
“Much better than I thought it was going to be - telehealth delivered group-based education and exercise was perceived as acceptable among people with knee osteoarthritis” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665913122000395
Telehealth toolkit for clinicians: https://telehealth.trekeducation.org/

Friday Jun 17, 2022

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr James Robson and Professor Craig Ritchie to discuss all things ‘brain health’. We discuss what is meant by this term, why it is important, and what some of the steps people can take to optimise their brain health.
Related resources:
Lancet Commission https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)30367-6/fulltext
Sport and Exercise for Brain Health MOOC https://www.futurelearn.com/admin/courses/sport-and-exercise-for-brain-health/1

Thursday May 26, 2022

In this BJSM Podcast Dr Amy Dennett is hosted by Dr Brooke Patterson. Historically people with cancer have been told to rest, and patients and practitioners are often hesitant to get started with physical activity. Amy provides some great practical tips and resources - to support people with cancer exercise safely, safety and precautions, and tips for healthcare services and providers who want to get started with cancer exercise groups. Amy provides a huge array of resources available for healthcare services and clinicians.
Cancer exercise toolkit: https://cancerexercisetoolkit.trekeducation.org/
Cancer exercise toolkit paper: https://cancer.jmir.org/2022/2/e34903/authors
Treatment protocols https://www.eviq.org.au/
International registry and handouts on exercise and cancer https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/eim-in-action/moving-through-cancer/
Patient and clinician resources https://www.petermac.org/cancersurvivorship

Friday May 13, 2022

On this episode of the AMSSM (T: @TheAMSSM) Sports Medcast, host Dr. Krystian Bigosinski, is joined by Dr. Matt Fedoruk, PhD, who works as the Chief Science Officer leading the Science & Research team at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (@usantidoping).
Dr. Fedoruk served as a Featured National Speaker in the Doping in Sport session during the 2022 AMSSM Annual Meeting. In this conversation, he discusses some of the latest trends in doping science and testing and address the following topics:
· His experience as a USADA Officer during the 2022 Olympic and Paralympics Games in China, and the new testing measures that were recently put in place.
· How does WADA’s Athlete Biological Passport work, and what has its impact been on anti-doping?
· How does he view orthobiologic treatments, such as PRP and stem cell therapies, through the lens of anti-doping?
· Are gene doping technologies realistic from a physiological standpoint, or it is still the stuff of science fiction?
· How does USADA balance respect for athlete autonomy and privacy, while also performing meaningful doping control?
· How should sports medicine providers proceed when encountering athletes who might be coerced into doping programs?
· How should physicians approach care of recreational athletes when it comes to the risks and benefits of substances that may be performance-enhancers, such as testosterone?
· How does he approach being a fan of sport while working at USADA, where he often sees the best of worst of sport?

Friday May 06, 2022

In this podcast we are joined by Rachael Cowan and Professor Jill Cook. They provide an update on the evidence for management of greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) and discuss the results of a recent clinical trial evaluating the effect of menopausal hormone therapy, exercise, and education on tendon pain and function in post-menopausal women with GTPS. On the eve of retirement, Jill provides an opinion on what the next big breakthroughs in tendinopathy research should be!
Cowan et al. 2021
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03635465211061142
Ganderton et al. 2018
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jwh.2017.6729
Mellor et al. 2018
https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1662.long

Friday Apr 22, 2022

In this podcast with co-chair of the inaugural BJSM Live event on 25th May 2022, we chat about the event itself and some of the efforts to make it as diverse and inclusive as possible.
For tickets, please check out http://bjsmlive.bmj.com/

Thursday Apr 14, 2022

On this week’s BJSM podcast, we are joined by Assistant Professor Margie Davenport, to talk about the latest evidence and experience around exercising and competing as an elite athlete whilst pregnant.
We discuss why this is such an important issue as well as some of the myths or misconceptions that exist in this space. Dr Davenport also provides a range of practical tips for team physicians, scientists and therapists to consider when it comes to advising athletes on planning pregnancies, training whilst pregnant, and shaping support networks and systems to support athletes that want to start a family?
Here is the key paper and some other notable resources discussed in the podcast:
Pushing for change: a qualitative study of the experiences of elite athletes during pregnancy https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/8/452
Why can’t I exercise during pregnancy? Time to revisit medical ‘absolute’ and ‘relative’ contraindications: systematic review of evidence of harm and a call to action https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/23/1395
Get Active Questionnaire for pregnancy checklist https://csep.ca/2021/05/27/get-active-questionnaire-for-pregnancy/

Friday Apr 08, 2022

On this episode of the AMSSM (T: @TheAMSSM) Sports Medcast, host Dr. Jacob Wessels, MD, is joined by Dr. Meredith Turner, MD, who is one of the speakers in the Race and Sport session during the 2022 AMSSM Annual Meeting.
In this conversation, Dr. Turner discusses her upcoming presentation in Austin, TX, on the Challenges of Exercise and Physical Activity in Minorities and address the following topics:
· The definition of minority populations and how she first got interested in this topic
· Identifying some of the primary barriers that minorities encounter regarding physical activity in their communities
· How socioeconomic barriers that contribute to these health disparities in minorities
· Ways that sports medicine professionals and healthcare providers can help recognize and address these factors in their communities
Resources:
Oliver, E. J., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Kasim, A., & Vallis, D. (2021). Inequalities and Inclusion in Exercise Referral Schemes: A Mixed-Method Multi-Scheme Analysis. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(6), 3033. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063033
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33809451/
Hawes, A. M., Smith, G. S., McGinty, E., Bell, C., Bower, K., LaVeist, T. A., Gaskin, D. J., & Thorpe, R. J., Jr (2019). Disentangling Race, Poverty, and Place in Disparities in Physical Activity. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(7), 1193. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071193
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30987098/
Physical activity deserts: What they are and how to reduce them with Dr. NiCole Keith. Ep #468 https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/physical-activity-deserts-what-they-are-and-how-to-reduce-them-with-dr-nicole-keith-ep-468

Friday Apr 01, 2022

On this episode of the AMSSM CRN Spotlight Podcast (T: @TheAMSSM) host Dr. Jeremy Schroeder, DO, is joined by Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez (T: @MVGutierrezMD), who is serving as the AAPM&R Exchange Lecture Speaker during the 2022 AMSSM Annual Meeting.
In this conversation, Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez discusses her upcoming presentation in Austin, TX, on Post-COVID Syndrome in Athletes and address the following topics:
• Defining Post-COVID Syndrome and its many potential impacts
• How and why she developed a Post-COVID Recovery Clinic
• Her contributions to multi-disciplinary collaborative consensus guidance statements for patients with PASC
• How she generally approaches treating patients with Post-COVID Syndrome
• The differences in rates and severity in Post-COVID Syndrome in athletes compared with other populations
• Her advice for aspiring researchers in sport and exercise science
Resources:
Models of Care for Postacute COVID-19 Clinics: Experiences and a Practical Framework for Outpatient Physiatry Settings (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34793373/)
Multi-disciplinary collaborative consensus guidance statement on the assessment and treatment of breathing discomfort and respiratory sequelae in patients with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC)(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmrj.12744)
Multidisciplinary collaborative consensus guidance statement on the assessment and treatment of fatigue in postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) patients (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pmrj.12684)

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