Despite the additional obvious challenges, Tokyo 2020 has been another glorious celebration of sporting excellence, with an impressive haul of medals for Team GB.🏅 While we catch our collective breath and await the Paralympic Games, here’s our round-up of some of the articles and content that caught our eye in July.
Research, Articles and Podcasts
MSK
Achilles Tendinopathy – A Dutch evidence-based overview of the risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, imaging, treatment and prognosis https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/28/bjsports-2020-103867
Low Back Pain – A 2021 consensus statement for preventing and managing low back pain in elite and sub-elite adult rowers https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/16/893
Primary Cam Morphology – A study to introduce and clarify the concept when not clearly associated with disease https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/18/bjsports-2020-103308
CARDIOLOGY
Sudden Cardiac Death in Sport – A podcast with leading Cardiologist, Professor Sanjay Sharma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUVY3cGyro
ECG interpretation – International criteria for electrocardiographic interpretation in athletes: Consensus statement https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/9/704
Heart Rate Variability – Fractal correlation properties of HRV as a biomarker of endurance exercise fatigue in ultramarathon runners https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.14814/phy2.14956
HEAD INJURY
Brain Health – A new study suggests professional rugby may be associated with changes in brain structure https://www.drakefoundation.org/professional-rugby-may-be-associated-with-changes-in-brain-structure/
Mouthguards – Is it time to mandate their use in all contact sports? https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2021/07/20/is-it-time-to-mandate-mouthguards-use-in-all-contact-sports/
GENERAL
Injury Prevention – Knowledge, beliefs and strategies in elite female footballers at the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/14/801
Gender Affirming Hormones – What are the effects on athletic performance in transwomen and transmen? Implications for sporting organisations and legislators https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/11/577
Hormone Intelligence – Applying artificial intelligence techniques to modelling female hormones for dancers, athletes and exercisers https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2021/06/28/hormone-intelligence-for-female-dancers-athletes-and-exercisers/
COVID-19 – Clinical patterns, recovery time and prolonged impact of illness in international athletes: the UK experience https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2021/08/01/bjsports-2021-104392.full.pdf
SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea – Physical activity and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe COVID-19 illness and COVID-19 related mortality: a nationwide cohort study https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/21/bjsports-2021-104203
Training and Competing in the Heat – A summary of the main information to protect athlete health https://bjsm.bmj.com/pages/e-edition-olympicsintheheat/
Rest vs Reps: Getting this pre-season right after a year of fitness issues in football https://www.fmpa.co.uk/fmpa-podcasts/
Athlete Mental Health – Depression assessment: Challenges and treatment strategies in the athlete https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193953X21000344?dgcid=author
Resource Round-Up
Some websites, podcasts and resources you might find useful:
ECG Interpretation in Athletes – Six open access ECG training modules from the University of Washington in collaboration with the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians https://uwsportscardiology.org/e-academy/ecg-modules/
Dates for Your Diary
SSPA 19th Annual Conference: Women and Sports – 19th November
BOA Annual Congress – Aberdeen, 21st-24th September 2021 https://www.boa.ac.uk/events/boa-annual-congress-2021.html
FIMS WORLD CONGRESS OF SPORTS MEDICINE – Athens & online, 23-26th September 2021 https://www.fims2020.com/
Teachings of Tokyo: Reflecting on the 2021 Olympic Games – Mon 27 Sep 2021, 3:00pm to 8:00pm, Royal Society of Medicine and online https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/sport-and-exercise-medicine/2020-21/spp02/
7th ECOSEP CONGRESS – Sports Medicine and Science: Facts for the Future – 19-20th November 2021, Athens http://www.ecosep21.com/
SSPA 19th Annual Conference: Women and Sports – 19th November 2021 https://ioc-preventionconference.org/
And Finally…
Once again, our industry colleagues provided some lighter moments… 😁
There are some days when we just fail to switch off…
And others where the view from the office just can’t be improved upon
Which makes up for days like these…
Do let us know your feedback, and any suggestions you have for websites, apps or networks for inclusion in future bulletins.
DISCLAIMER: Horizons is intended as a helpful round-up for members of potentially interesting articles/opinions that have been shared online. SEMPRIS are not qualified to make/infer any clinical judgements, and the inclusion of content, events and resources does imply endorsement.
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