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Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a method to 3D print cartilage-like materials consisting of a collagen hydrogel containing human chondrocytes. The printed structures mimic human nasal cartilage in terms of its...Monday, May 10, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
In a small study, 82 percent of the college athletes with COVID-19 had symptoms, of which the majority were mild and did not require treatment. Further screening via cardiac MRI of the 4 percent of athletes identified with heart...Friday, May 7, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a sweat sensor that measures glucose levels on the skin and converts those readings into accurate blood sugar estimates. As glucose levels in sweat can vary from person...Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Visual signs of disease can often be spotted within affected tissues, and advances in histopathology have provided clinicians with powerful diagnostic tools to spot those signs. Microscopes are the cornerstone of this trade, and although...Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at McGill University in Canada have developed a method to create and deliver brain implants that are a similar in consistency to the brain itself, which is a soft gelatinous tissue. The delicate silicone implants are created...Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Current guidelines for managing osteoporosis specifically call out hip or spine fractures for increasing the risk for subsequent bone breaks. But a new study suggests that fractures in the arm, wrist, leg and other parts of the body...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Shaip is an online platform that focuses on healthcare AI data solutions and offers licensed healthcare data designed to help construct AI models. It provides text-based patient medical records and claims data, audio such as...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination 1 These telling words of Nelson Mandela allude to the...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Living systematic reviews (LSRs) are ‘high-quality, up-to-date online summaries of health research that are updated as new research becomes available’. 1 You may not yet be familiar with living reviews as the first ones in...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
One randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a treatment does not revolutionise clinical practice. Clinician readers of BJSM will have noticed the increasing frequency of meta-analysis of treatment studies—valuable synthesis from many...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Introduction The essence of competition is often understood as a situation of mutually exclusive goal attainment, where one side succeeds only if another does not. However, and as studied by the game theory, this standard view may be too...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Introduction People with cerebral palsy (CP) participate in significantly less physical activity than the general population and those with more severe CP and higher support needs are the most inactive. 1 Anecdotally, generations of para...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Short message Leisure-time physical activity focus is a social bias, which widens the socioeconomic gap in health Physical activity researchers have a long tradition of concern for socioeconomic inequities in health. 1 Non-occupational...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
People often think of racism as aggressive and overt. However, more commonly it is subtle—intricately embedded into societal beliefs, expectations and practices. Systemic racism leads to the disproportionate distribution of...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
In 2016, World Rugby completed a large-scale study determining the risk factors for head injury in elite rugby. 1–3 The findings ( figure 1 ) presented a challenge to the game as the traditional safety measures targeted protection...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
‘Para’ is derived from the Greek word αacute;α and is a medical prefix meaning ‘alongside’ (cf. parathyroid). Hence, the Paralympics takes place ‘alongside’ the Olympic Games. Since the...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated many novel responses in healthcare including sport and exercise medicine. The cessation of elite sport almost globally has had significant economic implications and resulted in pressure to resume...Consent, capacity and compliance in concussion management: cave ergo medicus (let the doctor beware)
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While the acute effects of concussion and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) are well understood, the certainty in the medical literature regarding the long-term outcomes of sports-related concussion is limited. Long-term deficits that...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Consensus statements have the potential to be very influential. Recently, such statements in sport and exercise medicine appear more prescriptive, strongly recommending particular approaches to research or treatment. In 2020, a statement...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Objectives This paper provides comprehensive normative data stratified by language preference and age on the components of the National Hockey League (NHL) Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5 (SCAT5) in a multilingual sample of...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Objectives To examine the utility of Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT5) subcomponents in differentiating physician diagnosed concussed players from controls. Methods We evaluated 1924 professional hockey players at training camp...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Siyabonga Kunene’s athletic build and confident stance belie his humble roots. Born in an impoverished area of South Africa, he soon learnt the benefits of an education. He is now a PhD-qualified sports physiotherapist making a...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
Our scoping review was the first ‘big picture’ review to identify the relationships between rugby union, and health and well-being. Data suggest that all forms of rugby union (contact, non-contact and wheelchair) can provide...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
In a previous BJSM blog posted in April this year Nitin K Sethi posed the question, ‘Amid the COVID-19 pandemic should combat sports events be held ‘behind closed doors’? 1 The article’s conclusion was that with...Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from British Journal of Sports Medicine current issue
What did I do? I employed an iterative, patient-centred approach to develop a concussion-specific functional status measure. Why did I do it? While most adults fully recover from concussion, at least 15% exhibit ongoing symptoms...Friday, April 30, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) often lead to cognitive disabilities and permanent neural tissue damage, for which effective therapies do not exist. The serious cognitive impairments that patients experience and the burden on caretakers...Thursday, April 29, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
A third of children and adolescents develop a mental health problem after a concussion, which could persist for several years post-injury, according to a new literature review.Thursday, April 29, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Neurolutions, a company with offices in Santa Cruz, CA and St. Louis, MO, won FDA de novo authorization to introduce its IpsiHand stroke rehab system in the United States. This is the first approval of a brain-computer interface...Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Medtronic has won FDA approval for its Pipeline Flex Embolization Device with Shield Technology. The original Pipeline Flex was the first commercially available flow diverter for brain aneurysms. Shield Technology, a novel surface...Tuesday, April 27, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT have developed 3D printed shields to protect the gastrointestinal tract from the side effects of radiotherapy. Using CT scans, the devices can be custom printed to suit each patient’s...Thursday, April 22, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed an ultrasonically actuated needle that can retrieve a large amount of tissue during a biopsy, without the pain and complications associated with using bigger needles. The...Wednesday, April 21, 2021 from Medgadget.com » Sports Medicine
Fecal incontinence can be extremely challenging for those who suffer it. The condition can be embarrassing, making it difficult for people to tell others or even their doctor about it, and it is more common than you might think. Fecal...Monday, April 12, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Almost half of all recreational runners incur injuries, mostly relating to knees, calves or Achilles tendons, and the level of risk is equally high whatever your age, gender or running experience.Monday, April 5, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
As the world awaits the upcoming Olympic games, a new method for detecting doping compounds in urine samples could level the playing field for those trying to keep athletics clean. Now, scientists report an approach using ion...Thursday, March 25, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS), a synthetic version of the male sex hormone testosterone, are sometimes used as a medical treatment for hormone imbalance, and its use is known to have many side effects, ranging from acne to heart...Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
Living tissue can heal itself from many injuries, but giving similar abilities to artificial systems, such as robots, has been extremely challenging. Now, researchers have developed small, swimming robots that can magnetically heal...Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
A study of top-flight UK rugby players has identified a method of accurately diagnosing concussion using saliva, paving the way for the first non-invasive clinical test for concussion.Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
According to a recent study, accumulating more brisk and vigorous physical activity can curb adiposity-induced low-grade inflammation. The study also reported that diet quality had no independent association with low-grade inflammation.Thursday, March 18, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
If you reach for water when a muscle cramp strikes, you might want to think again. New research has revealed drinking electrolytes instead of pure water can help prevent muscle cramps.Wednesday, March 17, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Many athletes, from football players to equestrians, rely on helmets to protect their heads from impacts or falls. However, a loose or improperly fitted helmet could leave them vulnerable to traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), a leading...Tuesday, March 16, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
A new pilot study has shown when a female athlete has a concussion injury during the phase of her menstrual cycle when progesterone is highest, she feels less stress. Feeling stressed is one symptom of a concussion. Feeling less stressed...Tuesday, March 16, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Physiologists find that the biggest predictors of people's ability to burn fat are their biological sex and their fitness levels.Tuesday, March 9, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Illegal use of anabolic steroids not only has dangerous side effects during use but also can harm of men's testicular function years after they stop abusing steroids, according to a new study.Tuesday, March 9, 2021 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
This shirt harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small electronics. UC San Diego nanoengineers call it a ''wearable microgrid''-- it combines energy from the wearer's sweat and movement to provide sustainable power for...Monday, March 8, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
First study to objectively document self-paced physical and cognitive activity post-concussion among youth suggests they may be able to engage in physical and cognitive activity as soon as tolerated post-concussion.Thursday, March 4, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
A systematic screening program designed for athletes testing positive for COVID-19 has detected a low incidence of inflammatory heart disease, so far returning professional athletes safely to sport.Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
Lactate, a compound present in sweat, is an important biomarker to quantify during exercise. However, available wearable sensors can cause skin irritation, which calls for the use of different materials. In a recent study, scientists...Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
Swimming in indoor or outdoor pools is a healthy form of exercise and recreation for many people. However, studies have linked compounds that arise from chlorine disinfection of the pools to respiratory problems, including asthma, in...Thursday, February 11, 2021 from ScienceDaily: Sports Medicine News
Discus and javelin throwers as well as marathon runners and race walkers are likely to achieve their best performances at a later age than sprinters, hurdlers and middle-distance runners. Why? It comes down to muscle fibres and technique.Wednesday, February 3, 2021 from Sports Science News -- ScienceDaily
Hikers, soldiers and school children all know the burden of a heavy backpack. But now, researchers have developed a prototype that not only makes loads feel about 20% lighter, but also harvests energy from human movements to power small...