BJSM Podcast

Dr Juan Manual Alonso is a spanish sports physician and PhD with vast experience in track and field - six Summer Olympic Games just to start! He is the head of the IAAF (Athletics) where he had a global responsibility for antidoping (since 2003) and for guiding athlete care for all 200 countries in the Athletics Federation. He has recently begun working at Aspetar-Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital. Jurdan Mendiguchia is a spanish physiotherapist with vast experience at home and in Italian football. He has published and lectured widely on rehabilitation with a focus on hamstring injuries. His 2012 BJSM editorial “Hamstring strain injuries: Are we heading in the right direction?” has had over 5,000 downloads http://tiny.cc/rgmrww. In this podcast he and Dr Alonso introduce the listeners to a multifactorial approach to managing hamstring strain. Spanish speakers can listen to both Juan Manuel and Jurdan discussing sports medicine issues in detail in spanish here http://bit.ly/18FP3be.

El Dr Juan Manuel Alonso es un médico del deporte español con dilatada experiencia en el atletismo (¡ha estado presente en 6 juegos olímpicos!). Es el presidente de la Comisión Médica y Anti-dopaje de la IAAF donde se ocupa de la lucha antidopaje y del cuidado general de los atletas de los 200 países que integran la Federación Internacional de Atletismo. Recientemente se ha incorporado a trabajar en Catar en el Hospital Aspetar de Medicina del Deporte y Cirugía Ortopédica. Jurdan Mendiguchia es un fisioterapeuta español con amplia experiencia en el tratamiento de deportistas de élite y en especial de jugadores de fútbol profesional. Trabaja también como asesor en el área de prevención y manejo de casos clínicos difíciles de clubes de fútbol de España, Europa y Sudamérica. Ha publicado ampliamente y dado conferencias alrededor del mundo sobre su visión de la rehabilitación y prevención con especial interés en las lesiones de isquiotibiales. Su editorial en BJSM “Hamstring strain injuries: Are we heading in the right direction?” ha sido descargado más de 5000 veces. http://tiny.cc/rgmrww. En este podcast, Mendiguchia y el Dr Alonso presentan a los oyentes un enfoque multifactorial dirigido al manejo clínico de las lesiones de isquiotibiales.

Professor Jiri Dvorak discusses the major public health initiative ‘Football for Health’ which has already been adopted in 19 countries. He also introduces that 11 steps to prevent cardiac death and revisits progess on the 11+, a warmup program that reduces lower limb injuries in football. Professor Dvorak is the Chief Medical Officer for FIFA and Chairman F-MARC.

Professor David Bishop, from the Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Active Living (SEAL) at the University of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, discusses the evidence base for altitude training to improve performance. The innovation is the role in team sports like football codes. He discusses with Karim Khan the differences between low oxygen and low barometric pressure, ways of replicating environmental effects without having to travel. Can this help your team? A top podcast for strength and conditioning coaches (S&C) and clinicians contributing to the strategy for team performance.

Terrified of Twitter? Afraid of apps? Evert Verhagen, sports scientist and academic from de Vue University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, guides us through everything sports clinicians need to know about social media and apps, and how they can aid clinical practice and health promotion. As well as being able to have references and guidance on your phone or tablet, these can help you stay bang up up to date in your field, and keep an eye on your athletes’ wellbeing. See also: Evert’s blog: Social media 101 http://bit.ly/VjNnye

Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports physician at the University of Melbourne, talks us through what to do if you think you’ve had a concussion, when you can go back to sport, and what the complications of concussion are.

If you’re worried that your child has had concussion, this podcast is for you. Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports physician at the University of Melbourne, discusses the Concussion Recognition Tool, the guide that you can use if you suspect a diagnosis of concussion. What should you do? Dr McCrory also talks us through the symptoms of concussion, and how to know when a child has recovered. You can access the Concussion Recognition Tool here http://bit.ly/11TiFxW. And the SCAT recognition tool here http://bit.ly/100CzEc

Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports medic at the University of Melbourne, gives us the new, take home messages from the latest concussion consensus statement. For a guide to all the content in the latest injury prevention and health protection issue of BJSM, where the consensus is published, listen to Dr McCrory’s earlier podcast http://bit.ly/12XvGb5. All the content from the issue can be found here http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/5.toc.

The latest injury prevention and health protection issue of BJSM focuses on concussion, and in this podcast Paul McCrory, neurologist and sports physician at the University of Melbourne, gives us an overview of what’s included, so you can target the content which you find most helpful. Dr McCrory takes us through the consensus statement on concussion in sport published in the issue, as well as the 12 review papers which inform it. All the content from the issue can be found here bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/5.toc.

As we hit marathon season, Peter Brukner, BJSM senior associate editor, discusses the controversy around hydration for athletes with Tim Noakes, professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town and author of ‘Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports’. Professor Noakes explains who is at risk of hyponatremia, and how to spot and treat the condition. He lays out the advice sports physicians should be giving athletes. He also describes how commercial messages led to athletes thinking they need to drink more than they should. See also: Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports http://bit.ly/12avAeV Case proven: exercise associated hyponatraemia is due to overdrinking. So why did it take 20 years before the original evidence was accepted? http://bit.ly/17UF9SM The truth about sports drinks http://bit.ly/NB379z