Welcome to the latest edition of Horizons. With the world’s attention now firmly fixed on the pinnacle of the football calendar, we recognise that it’s the sports medicine community, often working away from the spotlight, whose expertise keeps athletes fit, firing and ready to perform on that stage.
At Health Partners Group, we’re committed to supporting doctors not only through specialist indemnity but also through open, informative dialogue. We were therefore proud to be sponsoring the International Conference on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport last week, and our interactive workshop gave us another opportunity to have the kind of meaningful, insightful conversations we value most. Thank you to everyone who came and said hello!
Please do let us know if there’s an upcoming event you’d like us to include in the next edition, an article you’d like us to highlight, or any vacancies you might wish to notify other members about.
Research, Articles and Podcasts
CARDIOLOGY
Masters Athletes – Masters athletes with abnormal cardiovascular findings: clinical consensus. https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2026.03.025
Sudden Cardiac Arrest – Preparedness in African football: evidence from Cameroon and implications for global sport https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/05/03/bjsports-2025-110869
MSK
Bone Stress Injury – International Delphi consensus on bone stress injuries in athletes https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/2/78
Humeral Fractures – The fracture anatomy, separation, and tuberosity involvement (FAST) classification of displaced proximal humeral fractures using 3D-CT https://boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1302/0301-620X.108B5.BJJ-2025-1161.R2
Shoulder Dislocations – Management of first-time shoulder dislocations: A survey of sport medicine physician perceptions https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.70297
Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair – Return to sport – epidemiology and prognostic factors in a Swiss multi-centre cohort https://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2026/05/22/return-to-sport-after-arthroscopic-rotator-cuff-repair-epidemiology-and-prognostic-factors-in-a-swiss-multi-centre-cohort/
Hip Microinstability – Current concepts in diagnosis, surgical management, and outcomes: a narrative review https://www.dovepress.com/
Groin Pain Management – Inguinal-related groin pain in athletes: current understanding, assessment and management. https://www.dovepress.com/inguinal-related-groin-pain-andor-disruption-in-athletes-current-under-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-OAJSM
ACL Treatment – Deciding between ACL reconstruction, repair, and conservative treatment in young athletes: systematic narrative review. https://www.dovepress.com/deciding-between-acl-reconstruction-repair-and-conservative-treatment–peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-OAJSM
Patellofemoral Pain – Patellofemoral pain is a multifactorial complex condition; are we missing a multidisciplinary approach to its management? https://www.dovepress.com/patellofemoral-pain-is-a-multifactorial-complex-condition-are-we-missi-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-OAJSM
Total Knee Arthroplasty – Have we made any strides over the last 50 years?https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.70073
Knee Cartilage Management – ICRS-FIFA-Aspetar consensus on the management of knee cartilage injuries in football players: part 2 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/11/770
Tibial Osteotomy – Mild asymptomatic lateral osteoarthritis does not compromise outcomes after medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy https://esskajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ksa.70268
Complex Lower Limb Fractures – Medium-term recovery of patients with complex lower limb fractures https://boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1302/0301-620X.108B5.BJJ-2025-0948.R1
Achilles Tendinopathy – Selective muscle weakness: is it time to look beyond the soleus?. https://journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/fulltext/2026/04000/selective_muscle_weakness_in_achilles.2.aspx
Hamstring Injury Prevention – Hamstring force and stretch during progressively increasing running speeds and the eccentric phase of resistance training exercises commonly used for injury prevention and rehabilitation https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/6/420
THE FEMALE ATHLETE
Period Pain Female Athletes – Period pain in female athletes: a call to action – time to fill the evidence gap and develop tailored management pathways. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/05/21/bjsports-2025-110565
Injury Prevention Implementation – Supported implementation enhances injury prevention programme (Prep-to-Play) use in women and girls playing Australian Football: a pragmatic type III hybrid implementation-effectiveness stepped wedge cluster randomised trial https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/11/788
GENERAL
South African Sports Medicine – From silos to synergy – integrating science, medicine and performance https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/10/683
REDs – Best practice recommendations for body composition considerations in sport to reduce health and performance risks: a critical review, original survey and expert opinion by a subgroup of the IOC consensus on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs): https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/17/1148
Mental Health and Wellbeing – Integrating a lived experience workforce to support and enhance mental health and wellbeing in elite sport https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/05/27/bjsports-2025-110580
Energy Availability – Dietary determinants associated with low energy availability among athletes: a scoping review https://opensportssciencesjournal.com/VOLUME/19/ELOCATOR/e1875399X449583/FULLTEXT/
CONCUSSION
US Rugby League – Domain-specific concussion knowledge and reporting in United States Major League Rugby players https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsc.70180
Persistent Symptoms – Multimodal symptom-targeted treatment for young people with persisting post-concussion symptoms: a randomised clinical trial https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/05/18/bjsports-2025-110880
Tackle Height – Tackle higher or lower? Simulation to evaluate how changing the tackle height would impact the number of concussions and head acceleration events in men’s professional rugby league https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/10/706
Post-Concussion Screen Time – Duration, type and association with symptom resolution in youth aged 11–17 years https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/06/04/bjsports-2025-110310
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
International Sports Surgery & Medicine Conference – Glasgow, 20th – 22nd July https://rcpsg.ac.uk/education/international-sports-surgery-and-medicine-conference-glasgow-2026?selected_date=2026-07-20
Protecting Mental Health in Sport + Exercise Conference – August 17-18th 2026, Colorado Springs https://promiseconference.co.uk/product/promise-2026-delegate-ticket/
BASEM Annual Conference 2026 – Nov 17 – 18, 2026, Londonhttps://basemconference.co.uk/
Dutch Conference of Sports & Exercise Medicine – Nov 26-27, Rotterdam https://www.sportgeneeskunde.com/dcsem/
The World Congress of Sports Physiotherapy – December 4–5, 2026, Bern https://wcspt.com/
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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 not imply endorsement.
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