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… 😁
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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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