CJSM Podcast 6: Sports Ultrasound

December 29, 2014 by 1 Comment

jsm-podcast-bg-1With the New Year, we have a new issue, and the January 2015 CJSM is packed with interesting new research.

Among the many articles you’ll want to check out are two relating to sports ultrasound: the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Position Statement on Interventional Ultrasound in Sports Medicine and the AMSSM Recommended Sports Ultrasound Curriculum for Sports Medicine Fellowships.

Our first podcast of the year is a conversation with the lead author of these two papers, Jonathan Finnoff, D.O. of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center.

Take a listen and tell us what  you think!  And Happy New Year!

(and to listen to and download all of our podcasts from iTunes go here).

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“The Trouble with Kids”: Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports

December 23, 2014 by

We’re winding down 2014 and already looking forward to the January 2015 issue, which is packed with important papers including two American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Consensus Statements.  We’re the official journal of the AMSSM and we’re always excited to publish one of their well-researched statements.

2014 opened, in fact, with an AMSSM consensus statement:  “Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports:  A Position Statement from the AMSSM.”  It is our third most viewed study this year at cjsportmed.com.  We caught up with the lead author, John DiFiori, past-president of AMSSM, in one our 5 questions with CJSM interviews in a January 2014 blog post.  Sit down with a cup of egg nog and take a look at those links for some real holiday pleasure!

I know in my own practice of pediatric sports medicine I’ve referred frequently to what I’ve learned from this position statement.  I ‘channel it’ frequently when I’m talking with one of my patients (and parents) about the prevention and treatment of little league elbow in a pitcher or spondylolysis in a gymnast……And I certainly used a great deal of that study in my preparation for delivering a talk at the national youth athletic summit sponsored by MomsTeam in Boston in September:  “SmartTeams Play Safe.”a33c5a4a7e63600ecb112e79412060dda8baa293

I’m reposting my blog post review of that 2014 consensus statement below.  Enjoy, and get ready for a great 2015!  We’ll begin with a bang:  a podcast with the lead author of a new AMSSM consensus statement, and more.

Happy Holidays!

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We’re very pleased at CJSM to open the New Year with a shout:  a fantastic systematic review and position statement on the subject of youth sport, from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM).

The focus of the paper–in the January 2014 issue, which has just published–is on overuse injuries, which are thought to represent roughly half of all the injuries youth athletes sustain.

All readers of the journal, and of this blog, will find this a worthwhile read.  I have a selfish interest in the subject, as I am currently practicing pediatric sports medicine, and in my professional life I live and breathe the issues discussed in the paper. Moreover, I know several of the authors of this paper, and I think highly of them all.

But this is not about ’eminence based’ medicine. …

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The Nutcracker

December 16, 2014 by

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Angelina Sansone, Kansas City Ballet

With the holiday season come a host of traditions. There are tree trimming and the lighting of the menorah; there are caroling and jingle bell runs. And there’s that new favorite: wearing tacky sweaters.

There is, as well, the Nutcracker.

My family and I will be watching this weekend at Columbus’ BalletMet production.  This will mark our fifth year in attendance, and I’ve been impressed with the dancers’ artistry and skill each time I’ve seen the show.

Truth be told, I never went to any ballet until I was an adult.  My affection for the Nutcracker derives not from my own childhood Christmas memories, but from the work I did as a sports medicine fellow, where I ‘covered’ the Boston Ballet for a year.  What a great experience that was!

‘Dance Medicine,’ as many of you know, is a special niche of sports medicine.  Like any sport, dance has its own language, it’s own mental and physical challenges, its own equipment, and its own injury patterns.  I have not managed too many cases of hallux rigidus, FHL tendonitis or posterolateral ankle impingement outside of the dance world.

I grew very fond of this field during my training, and I continue to seek out opportunities to participate in this world.  And so I took extra pleasure in our September 2014 editions, which offered two new pieces of original research in dance medicine: Body Mass Index, Nutritional Knowledge, and Eating Behaviors in Elite Student and Professional Ballet Dancers and a brief report, Early Signs of Osteoarthritis in Professional Ballet Dancers:  A Preliminary Study.  I commend both of them to you. Read more of this post

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Year’s End

December 11, 2014 by

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Reflections (Wells Cathedral)

We are all heading toward the finish line of 2014, and what a year it has been.

I’ll be in something of a reflective mood, I think, over these next several weeks, and I suspect my blog posts will, well, ‘reflect’ that state of mind….I hope to highlight some of this year’s developments in the sports medicine world, especially those that CJSM has contributed to.

The world of media is continuously expanding, and many of us now get our clinical sports medicine information from a multitude of sources besides print.  You may follow us on Twitter as well as get these blog posts delivered to your email inbox, for instance.

One of the exciting innovations we began this year at the journal was the “CJSM podcast,” which you can subscribe to on iTunes.  Our first podcast was with Drs. Oliver Leslie and Neil Craton, and concerned their critique of the Zurich Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport, which appeared in CJSM’s March 2014 issue.  The conversation regarding the consensus statement and the controversial critique has literally continued this entire year.  In our November 2014 issue, closing out this calendar year, there are a host of ‘Letters to the Editor’ addressing this issue:  these include  one written by the past-president of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM), Pierre Fremont, as well as the reply made by Drs. Leslie and Craton to the various responses they received regarding their piece.

Other podcasts have addressed a variety of issues, including the concussion controversy at the 2014 FIFA World Cup [we had guests Drs. Cindy Chang, former president of the American College of Sports Medicine (AMSSM) and Matt Gammons, current AMSSM VP for that podcast] and the impact neuromuscular training programs can have on reducing ACL injury rates in youth soccer players.

I hope you have a chance to listen to all the podcasts, and to peruse all the contents of the November issue before this month ends.  Soon, we’ll be turning the corner into 2015, when we have a lot more in store to advance the cause of clinical sports medicine.  The January issue will be a good one, packed with new research and an important AMSSM consensus statement as well–highlighted, of course, by a podcast!

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