Happy New Year to you!
As we welcome the new year, we at SEMPRIS want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude for your incredible contributions to the field of Sports and Exercise Medicine throughout 2024. Your dedication, expertise, and passion have been instrumental in advancing care for patients, athletes, and the broader community.
From pioneering research to exceptional practice, your work continues to inspire us all and paves the way for an exciting future in our field. It’s an honour to support and collaborate with such a talented and committed community.
As we step into 2025, we are thrilled to continue this journey with you. Together, we will build on past successes and embrace the opportunities that lie ahead. SEMPRIS looks forward to supporting you every step of the way, helping you achieve even greater heights in the coming year.
Here’s to a fantastic year filled with health, success, and new milestones!
As always, here’s a selection of articles, resources and events that caught our attention last month, in case you missed them. Do let us know if there’s an event you think we should include in the next edition.
NEW FOR 2025
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Research, Articles and Podcasts
IMAGING
Knee Radiographs – Worrisome and incidental signs on in clinical practice: traumatic and degenerative lesions – course review https://www.appliedradiology.org/coursereview.aspx?url=4629/HTML/AR_01-23_DavisCME01_all/index.html&scid=20201
MSK
Acute Neck Pain – effect of manual therapy and dry needling on pain, muscular tone and stiffness in combat sports athletes: A randomized controlled study https://www.jssm.org/jssm-23-852.xml%3EFulltext
Neck Pain – Is neck pain treatable with surgery? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00586-023-08053-0
Axial Spondyloarthritis – What should we be telling our patients about physical activity? https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2024/12/16/physical-activity-in-axial-spondyloarthritis-what-should-we-be-telling-our-patients/
Deltoid Ligament Injuries – A review of the anatomy, diagnosis and treatments https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.12274
Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders – The health economic analysis of surgery versus rehabilitation: A systematic review of trial-based studies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02692155241300121
AMIC Outcomes – Longevity of AMIC procedures in aligned knees: A long‐term follow‐up https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.12354
ACL – Lateral extra‐articular tenodesis does not enhance ACL graft healing, however, does reduce graft tunnel widening https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.12310
ACL Injuries In Female Athletes – Risk factors and strategies for prevention https://boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1302/2633-1462.52.BJO-2023-0166
ACL Reconstruction – Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) modulates quadriceps motor cortex inhibition and facilitation during rehabilitation: a triple-blind, randomised controlled proof of concept trial https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4/e002080
MPFL Reconstruction – Nonanatomical femoral tunnel positioning not associated with an increased risk of patellofemoral osteoarthritis after a minimum follow‐up of 10 years https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.12264
Ankle-GO™ Part 1: A novel and simplified way for ensuring safe return to sport following ankle sprain https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/?p=11404
Ankle-GO™ Part 2 https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/?p=11410
Plantar Fasciopathy – Alleviating heel pain in patients: what are the options? https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/?p=11359Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome – Expanding the paradigm on aetiology and treatment https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/podiatry/tarsal-tunnel-syndrome-expanding-paradigm-etiology-and-treatment
GENERAL
Skeletal Muscle Injury – Histological definition: a guide to nomenclature along the connective tissue sheath/structure https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-024-02165-3
Rotator Cuff Disorders – Progressive exercise compared with best practice advice, with or without corticosteroid injection, for the treatment of patients: a multicentre, pragmatic, 2 × 2 factorial, randomised controlled trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00846-1/fulltext and infographic https://x.com/belavyprof/status/1867472451837558859?s=12&t=1xRDzD8jBE7-8lFYNhHS9A
Doping – Psychosocial predictors of doping intentions and use in sport and exercise https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2024/11/08/psychosocial-predictors-of-doping-intentions-and-use-in-sport-and-exercise/
Neurology – New framework for the continuum of concussion and functional neurological disorder https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/06/bjsports-2024-108154
Infection Management – Fracture-related infection in the presence of critical bone defects https://boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1302/2048-0105.132.360129
Bone Stress Injuries – International Delphi consensus https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/05/bjsports-2024-108616
Orofacial Trauma – Mouthguards for the prevention of orofacial trauma in sport: the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) position statement https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/24/1475
Running – Innovative approaches to injury prevention and performance enhancement in: insights from PhD research on hamstring strengthening, running biomechanics and energetics, and wearable technology (PhD Academy Award) https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/10/21/bjsports-2024-109159
REDS – Low energy availability surrogates are associated with Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport outcomes in male athletes https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/10/25/bjsports-2024-109165
Safeguarding Athletes – How prepared are sports medicine physicians to recognise and report harassment and abuse https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2024/11/29/safeguarding-athletes-how-prepared-are-sports-medicine-physicians-to-recognize-and-report-harassment-and-abuse/
Mental Fatigue – The restorative effects of nature exposure on the self-regulation resources in mentally fatigued soccer players: a randomised controlled trial https://www.jssm.org/jssm-23-882.xml%3EFulltext
MAUL Study – ‘Mental heAlth and well-being in rUgby pLayers’: an online survey of diverse cohorts of rugby union players internationally https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4/e002164
Injury Risk – Machine learning approaches to prediction in sport: a scoping review with evidence synthesis https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/12/04/bjsports-2024-108576
Ovarian Hormone Profiles – Development and evaluation of an ovarian hormone profile classification tool for female athletes: step one of a two-step process https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4/e002304
Women’s Rugby – A catalyst for advancing female‐specific science and safety in sport https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsc.12212
IOC consensus statement – Interpersonal violence and safeguarding in sport https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/22/1322
Snow Sports-Specific Extension Of The IOC Consensus Statement – Methods for recording and reporting epidemiological data on injury and illness in sports https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/11/07/bjsports-2024-108720
RTS – Pre-hab and post-surgical rehab: Back in the game: a criteria-driven path https://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/diagnose–treat/pre-hab-and-post-surgical-rehab/back-in-the-game-a-criteria-driven-rts-path
RESOURCE ROUND-UP
Some websites, podcasts and resources you might find useful:
Bone and Joint on Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@bone_and_joint
Next-Generation Wide Area CT – on demand https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&eventid=4787013&sessionid=1&key=801779F9B9E92434EAF903EDAB97F052&groupId=5842798&partnerref=Social&sourcepage=register
BJSM PhD Academy Awards – Innovative approaches to running injury prevention. EP#564 https://bjsmbmj.podbean.com/e/bjsm-phd-academy-awards-innovative-approaches-to-running-injury-prevention-ep564/
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
ISEH Annual Sport & Exercise Medicine Virtual Conference, 27-28 January 2025 https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/79Y2-GNR
‘Image Guided Injections in Musculoskeletal Medicine’, 1st Feb, 2025, 10.00am – 12.00pm. https://x.com/fsem_irl/status/1859567084146942175
BASEM Revision Course for the Faculty Diploma in Exercise Medicine ,1 February 2025, online https://basem.co.uk/basem-courses/basem-revision-course-for-the-faculty-diploma-in-exercise-medicine/
9th UEFA Medical Symposium: The Women’s Game And Beyond, 4 to 6 February 2025, Lugano, Switzerland https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/028d-1ae890d50a48-6e11dd0592ef-1000–9th-uefa-medical-symposium-the-women-s-game-and-beyond/
ESC Cardiology Practice Conference 2025, 7 – 8 February 2025, Athens https://esc365.escardio.org/event/1853
Online Research Methods and Paper Review Course, 26 February; 18 June; 19 November 2025 https://bonejointbooking.org.uk/
STMS Tennis Medicine Conference, 4-5 April 2025, Amsterdam https://www.tennismedicine.org/amsterdam-2025
ESC Digital & AI Summit 2025 Thursday, 20 November – Friday, 21 November 2025 Berlin – Germany https://www.escardio.org/Congresses-Events/ESC-Digital-AI-Summit
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 not imply endorsement.
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