Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Team Physician Development Course

April 24, 2013 by 1 Comment

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Olympic Rings, Whislter, B.C.

The Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) begins its annual meeting in beautiful Whistler, B.C. tomorrow.  Events have already begun, with the pre-conference Team Physician Development Course, and my good friend and fellow sports medicine colleague, Kate Wiley, M.D. from Calgary has been in attendance.  She provides us with a guest blog entry from Day 1 of the Team Physician course.  Thanks Kate!

Day 1- Team Physician Development Course, Guest Blog, Kate Wiley, M.D.

The sun is going down here in beautiful Whistler BC where I am attending the annual Canadian
Academy of Sports Medicine Meeting. What a gorgeous place to have a sportsmedicine
conference – awe inspiring mountains, alluring wilderness and a playground for the active
individual.

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Lost Lake, B.C.

I have returned from a run along the trails of Lost Lake, and I have been able to reflect upon the day’s lectures.  I am lucky to have some extra time in the day to get in some personal training for the summer’s upcoming triathlon series.  Despite being a “mature” athlete, a “master”, I am always looking to learn how to be more competitive.  I listen to the lectures with my patients foremost in my mind, but, selfishly, I also think about what I can take for my own use.  How can I get a little faster, recover more quickly, stay injury free?

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AMSSM Meeting In San Diego

April 20, 2013 by 5 Comments

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Drs. Julie Wilson, William Meehan and Naomi Brown

I am in the San Diego airport on my way back home to Columbus, Ohio, reflecting on my whirlwind trip to #AMSSM13, the 2013 American Medical Society of Sports Medicine Conference that will wrap up tomorrow.

I spent my 24 hours on the ground connecting with colleagues, attending an Editorial Board Meeting of the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, and catching some great talks this morning, three of which I’d like to profile in this post.

Dr. Julie Wilson, from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Drs. William Meehan and Naomi Brown, from Boston Children’s Hospital, all presented very interesting research on different aspects of concussion. Their research abstracts are among the collected abstracts of the AMSSM Research Presentations that can be found in the March 2013 edition of CJSM.

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Reaction Time Device

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Public Health and Sports Medicine

April 18, 2013 by 5 Comments

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San Diego at night

I am in the Columbus airport on my way to San Diego for the AMSSM Meeting and I’m excited. OK, truth:  I’m on the ground in Columbus and ‘weather’ is preventing our flight taking off to Chicago, where I will, in theory, get my connecting flight to San Diego. And that’s not too exciting.

But, the meeting:  the research abstracts to be presented at the meeting look great, and I’ll be blogging about the event more in the next several days (if I make it there………)

My mind is still thinking of the events that occurred at the Boston Marathon three days ago, and I am looking forward to the London Marathon this weekend, which I hope goes off without a hitch.  I continue to read stories of the heroism of the Boston medical community, from the professionals in the finish line medical tent to the nearby hospitals, where the trauma was nearly overwhelming.  And I have read sobering stories, from the litany of terrorist events that have impacted sport to the analyses that suggest planning for marathons, the ‘most democratic of sporting events,’ may be irrevocably changed.

Many of us in sports medicine are involved in on-site game coverage, including the coverage of mass events, and the roles we play in these venues are, indisputably, exceedingly important.  For some of us, this is our core professional mission.  For me, it is a secondary role.  Most of my days and evenings are spent in clinic, seeing patients referred to me, or teaching students and trainees, or in pursuing medical research.  Nights and weekends will then find me at times covering a basketball or American football game at Bexley High School or Ohio Dominican University.  Over the years I have found myself covering mass events in the medical tents at the Big Sur Marathon, San Jose Half Marathon, the Big Kahuna Triathlon, local wrestling tournaments, and the Boston Marathon.

The Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine has published articles in the recent past on mass event coverage and prevention of illness in athletes, and I commend them to you for your consideration. Read more of this post

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NOT Sports Medicine

April 16, 2013 by 4 Comments

I don’t think any of us in sports medicine got into the field expecting to be involved in an event like that which transpired in Boston yesterday.

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Map of Boston Bombings

Like many people around the world, I became riveted to TV, internet newsfeeds, and Social Media yesterday as I tried to make sense of what was occurring in Boston:  at 2:50 p.m., a little over four hours after the start of the Boston Marathon, two bombs exploded near the finish line, creating a chaotic scene resulting at this moment in three deaths and over 100 casualties.  A scene of sporting joy and celebration had been turned into mayhem.

In the days ahead and as the investigation into this event unfolds, we will likely learn ‘who’ was behind this and for what supposed purpose.   It is my hope that ‘they’ become a footnote in history, and that instead the names of the victims and the athletes and the first responders persist in memory.

Boston has played a big part in my life.  I went to university and medical school in Boston, and all told have lived about a dozen years of my life in that city.  When you live there, the Boston Marathon becomes part of the background of your life.  Read more of this post

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