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Mashup Score: 0Reflection of the Swiss Sports Medicine Day for Students - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
A place like no other Each year, a hundred medical students from all over Switzerland come together in one place to experience a day about sports medicine. This year, it was in Interlaken, a magnificent city in the Bernese Oberland, where 60 students and even a guest medical student from Sweden, Moa Engström, met. Here […]Read More…
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Mashup Score: 1Why does it hurt? Pain assessment of upper and lower limb pain in athletes. - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
Keywords: Athlete, Pain, Assessment In this blog we address the clinical challenge of assessing pain in athletes. We discuss our recent publication in the BJSM which examined how pain in the upper and lower limb in athletes has been assessed over the past 50 years (1). We highlight some of the gaps in research and practice […]Read More…
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Mashup Score: 1Are we as clinicians playing our part to address the increased injury risk following a Sports-Related Concussion? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
Active rehabilitation and graded exercise rather than physical rest may help reduce the increased injury risk reported in many recent studies. Keywords: Sports-Related Concussion, Rehabilitation, Injury risk Sports-Related Concussion (SRC) may increase subsequent injury risk (1–3), with disturbances to the neuromuscular control system often theorised as a contributing factor (4). Outside elite…
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Mashup Score: 2Physical Activity Is Associated with Fewer Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
Authors: Bryant Webber; Heather Yun; Geoffrey Whitfield After reviewing 25 studies during the pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that being physically inactive increases the chance of severe COVID-19 illness. Given emerging interest in the relationship between physical activity and infectious diseases, we explored the impact of types and amounts of […]Read…
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The VISA-A (sedentary) should be used for sedentary patients with Achilles tendinopathy: a modified version of the VISA-A developed and evaluated in accordance with the COSMIN checklist. Keywords: Achilles tendinopathy, sedentary, patient reported outcome measure. In this blog, we will explain how we developed and evaluated a modified version of the Victorian Institute of Sport […]Read More…
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⚠️ How should we be assessing Achilles tendinopathy in sedentary patients? 🤷♂️ With only 35% of patients with AT describing symptoms relating to sporting activity, it is important for clinicians to know when to use the VISA-A sedentary 📄 NEW #BJSMBlog 👉 https://t.co/HBbXE4f8UF https://t.co/mXDPmrAmK6
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Mashup Score: 0Are we as clinicians playing our part to address the increased injury risk following a Sports-Related Concussion? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
Active rehabilitation and graded exercise rather than physical rest may help reduce the increased injury risk reported in many recent studies. Keywords: Sports-Related Concussion, Rehabilitation, Injury risk Sports-Related Concussion (SRC) may increase subsequent injury risk (1–3), with disturbances to the neuromuscular control system often theorised as a contributing factor (4). Outside elite…
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Mashup Score: 0Exercise versus caloric restriction for visceral fat loss - which is better? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
In this blog article we explain the findings of our recent meta-analysis where we compared the effects of exercise and caloric restriction for reducing visceral fat in individuals with overweight and obesity. Why is this study important? Obesity is a growing global public health concern, with 39% of adults being overweight and 13% being obese […]Read More…
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Mashup Score: 17Are we as clinicians playing our part to address the increased injury risk following a Sports-Related Concussion? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
Active rehabilitation and graded exercise rather than physical rest may help reduce the increased injury risk reported in many recent studies. Keywords: Sports-Related Concussion, Rehabilitation, Injury risk Sports-Related Concussion (SRC) may increase subsequent injury risk (1–3), with disturbances to the neuromuscular control system often theorised as a contributing factor (4). Outside elite…
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Mashup Score: 0Can physical therapy reduce the use of opioids in people with knee pain? - BJSM blog - social media's leading SEM voice - 11 month(s) ago
Keywords: knee pain, osteoarthritis, opioids, physical therapy, exercise In this blog, we explain the findings from our recent study on the relation of timing of physical therapy initiation after a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis with risk of opioid use in the future (1). Why is this study important? Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause […]Read More…
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📣 Did you know that early initiation of physical therapy following a knee osteoarthritis diagnosis can reduce future opioid use?🤷♂️ 🤯 Find out more in this NEW #BJSMBlog which summarises the findings from the recently published paper on this topic 📄 👉 https://t.co/LVPtvHo4ld https://t.co/WkZCRCSU5Z
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The VISA-A (sedentary) should be used for sedentary patients with Achilles tendinopathy: a modified version of the VISA-A developed and evaluated in accordance with the COSMIN checklist. Keywords: Achilles tendinopathy, sedentary, patient reported outcome measure. In this blog, we will explain how we developed and evaluated a modified version of the Victorian Institute of Sport […]Read More…
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⚠️ How should we be assessing Achilles tendinopathy in sedentary patients? 🤷♂️ With only 35% of patients with AT describing symptoms relating to sporting activity, it is important for clinicians to know when to use the VISA-A sedentary 📄 NEW #BJSMBlog 👉 https://t.co/HBbXE4f8UF https://t.co/XTDkWg1Acb
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#NEW BJSM Blog: Reflection of the Swiss Sports Medicine Day for Students 🇨🇭🏃♀️ The next generation of SEM clinicians ⭐️ Read about how presentations and workshops were delivered to the medical students with an interest in SEM READ HERE ➡️ https://t.co/bW0dJj1GT6 https://t.co/oba2xPz6Kf