CJSM Podcast 15 — Dr. Lyle Micheli on ACL Injuries in Young Athletes

July 13, 2016 by

jsm-podcast-bg-1Today we have as our guest on the podcast Dr. Lyle Micheli, the Director of Sports Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Micheli is one of the godfathers of sports medicine, with a career that began in the sixties and shows no signs of slowing down.  He still outworks almost any other physician I know, and still performs high volumes of surgical procedures, including ACL reconstructions, the subject of this podcast.

He also finds the time to have published innumerable manuscripts, and CJSM has been the recipient of many of his excellent studies.

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L to R: Myself; Dr. Lyle Micheli, Dr. Pierre d’Hemecourt (Boston Children’s), Dr. Jeff Vaughn (Phoenix Children’s)

The focus of the podcast is on a study just published in our July 2016 CJSM, Return to Sport after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in the Skeletally Immature Athlete.  We had the chance to discuss how ACL injury management in the young athlete has changed over the course of his career, and we got to explore with Dr. Micheli the radical new direction in which ACL injury treatment may be headed:  with repair, as opposed to reconstruction — the Bridge-enhanced ACL Repair (BEAR) trial is a hot topic in the world of orthopaedic sports medicine.

You can access the podcast at iTunes (where you can also subscribe to all our podcasts for free) or on our journal’s main website. And the study on CJSM is free. Let us know what you think!

Filed under CJSM Podcasts, General Interest, Injury Prevention, Youth Sport

Catching my breath

June 3, 2016 by

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Part of the large contingent coming to #ACSM16 from South Africa. Photo courtesy of Phatho Zondi, current SASMA president.

I am just coming up for air after three days here in Boston, where I (and thousands of other sports medicine professionals) are attending the 2016 annual conference of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

Every year at this time I will make the pilgrimage to San Diego or Orlando or other spots in these big United States to attend this big, big conference.  Each year I leave with my brain chock full of new ideas and my bag chock full of business cards; as I step back to gain some perspective on the experience I am overwhelmed by the size and scope of the conference.  I am not complaining when I declare that it is simply not possible to attend every session one would want.  I am, rather, merely making a statement of fact!

So, like the proverbial dog trying to drink out of a gushing fire hydrant, I am doing targeted nipping at the flow of information rushing before me, and I want to share, in a most definitely non-comprehensive way, a few of the impressions I am left with as the conference heads into its penultimate day.

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Slide photo courtesy of Martin Schwellnus

First, it’s been great to catch up with a host of South African colleagues, ranging from Martin Schwellnus, Wayne Derman and Jon Patricios, to current South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) president Phatho Zondi, Pierre Viviers and Christa Janse vanRensburg.  It’s tremendous to see these folks and realize the great distance they have come to contribute to the ACSM proceedings.  In terms of contribution, they most definitely ‘punch about their weight’:  one of the sessions I attended was Dr. Schwellnus’ lecture on Exercise Associated Muscle Cramping (EAMC), a subject about which we publish quite frequently at CJSM.  I learned a tremendous amount from that talk, and I am sharing one of the slides from his talk for which he gave permission to be photographed.

There are many other international attendees at ACSM.  I have seen my friend and fellow CJSM editor Hamish Osborne, who arrived from Dunedin, New Zealand (bringing to my mind the very real possibility that ACSM should start betting operation taking propositions on who will win the “Conference attendee who has travelled the furthest” award).  I have heard Chinese, Italian and French spoken. Read more of this post

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CJSM Podcast 14 — Turf vs. Grass & Girls Soccer

May 13, 2016 by

jsm-podcast-bg-1Our newest podcast release profiles a study published in our May 2016 CJSM: Shoe and Field Surface Risk Factors for Acute Lower Extremity Injuries Among Female Youth Soccer Players. Our guest on the podcast is the lead author of the study, John O’Kane M.D., the Head Team Physician for the University of Washington and the Bob and Sally Behnke Endowed Professor for the Health of the Student Athlete.

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Dr. John O’Kane (L), soccer-playing daughter Katie (C), and wife Betsy (R), on grass….in Phoenix AZ

We hope you enjoy the conversation with Dr. O’Kane as much as we did.  We gained insight into the findings presented in the paper and had a fruitful discussion on some of the nuances of the endless debate:  turf vs. grass, which is the preferred surface on which to play soccer? Along the way we chatted about the recent controversies in the 2016 Women’s Soccer World Cup, as well as the impact on pubertal development as an intrinsic risk factor for injury in sport….and more!

Listen in — you can find the podcast on iTunes or on our home page.  As ever, let us know what you think — in the comment section below, or on Twitter @cjsmonline

 

 

 

Filed under CJSM Podcasts, Female Athletes, General Interest, Injury Prevention, Women in Sport, Youth Sport

The new issue, and the new podcast

March 2, 2016 by

jsm-podcast-bg-1March is here and spring is not far behind in the Northern Hemisphere [and for our ACSEP friends and others Down Under, the beauty of autumn is yours to enjoy].

The beginning of this new month marks as well the publication of our second volume of CJSM of 2016.  It has a host of interesting articles, including the headliner position statement from the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP)* on the place of mesenchymal stem cell therapy in sport and exercise medicine.   I was in Australia recently, attending the annual ACSEP meeting, and I got the chance to chat with the lead author of that paper, Hamish Osborne.

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Dr. Hamish Osborne

Dr. Osborne is a member of ACSEP; a sports medicine consulting physician practicing in Dunedin, New Zealand; and a senior lecturer in sport and exercise medicine at Otago University.  A man of many hats, we caught him in between events at Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland (site of the ACSEP meeting) and captured his thoughts on mesenchymal stem cell therapy.

And so, along with the release of the new CJSM volume, and the new ACSEP statement, we have the release of our first podcast of the year.

You can find the podcast on iTunes or on the CJSM home page — take a listen and tell us what you think!

*Of note: the Australasian College just underwent a name change, adding “exercise” into their title (i.e. ‘Australasian College of Sport Physicians (ACSP)’ to ‘Australian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP)’)  Cheers to that!!!

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