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Hip pain in young athletes: Q & A with a sports medicine specialist
When your child plays a sport, it’s often hard to tell where everyday aches and pains end and a potentially serious injury begins. Bumps and bruises are anything but rare in contact sports, and muscle soreness can be a common complaint for any young athlete — especially given the rigor of youth athletics these days. So how do you know when your child’s hip pain is due to an actual injury? Dr. Mininder Kocher, orthopedic surgeon and Associate Director of the Sports Medicine Division at Boston Children’s Hospital, helps answer parents’ questions about hip pain in young athletes. What are some of the more common h...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 3, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Connor Ertz Tags: Ask the Expert Child and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program Division of Sports Medicine Dr. Mininder Kocher FAI femoracetabular impingement hip dysplasia hip impingement labral tear Source Type: news

The Cognitive Benefits of Exercise in Youth.
Abstract As our schools and children struggle to meet ever-changing and mandated academic standards, challenges in the time spent on physical activity continue to arise. On the other hand, however, we continue to face a global climate mired in the midst of an obesity epidemic. It is widely accepted that the health benefits of exercise are wide-ranging and powerful. It appears that cognitive function and academic achievement are additional realms beyond the physical where exercise is beneficial. The school setting presents a unique public health opportunity to enact change on a variety of levels. As sports medicine...
Source: Current Sports Medicine Reports - July 1, 2015 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Diamond AB Tags: Curr Sports Med Rep Source Type: research

Call to Action on Making Physical Activity Assessment and Prescription a Medical Standard of Care.
Abstract The U.S. population is plagued by physical inactivity, lack of cardiorespiratory fitness, and sedentary lifestyles, all of which are strongly associated with the emerging epidemic of chronic disease. The time is right to incorporate physical activity assessment and promotion into health care in a manner that engages clinicians and patients. In April 2015, the American College of Sports Medicine and Kaiser Permanente convened a joint consensus meeting of subject matter experts from stakeholder organizations to discuss the development and implementation of a physical activity vital sign (PAVS) to be obtaine...
Source: Current Sports Medicine Reports - April 30, 2016 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Sallis RE, Matuszak JM, Baggish AL, Franklin BA, Chodzko-Zajko W, Fletcher BJ, Gregory A, Joy E, Matheson G, McBride P, Puffer JC, Trilk J, Williams J Tags: Curr Sports Med Rep Source Type: research

The Cognitive Benefits of Exercise in Youth
As our schools and children struggle to meet ever-changing and mandated academic standards, challenges in the time spent on physical activity continue to arise. On the other hand, however, we continue to face a global climate mired in the midst of an obesity epidemic. It is widely accepted that the health benefits of exercise are wide-ranging and powerful. It appears that cognitive function and academic achievement are additional realms beyond the physical where exercise is beneficial. The school setting presents a unique public health opportunity to enact change on a variety of levels. As sports medicine and exercise spec...
Source: Current Sports Medicine Reports - July 1, 2015 Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Exercise Is Medicine: Section Articles Source Type: research

Gender‐ and Sex‐specific Sports‐related Injury Research in Emergency Medicine: A Consensus on Future Research Direction and Focused Application
This article presents the consensus‐based priority research agenda.
Source: Academic Emergency Medicine - November 24, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neha P. Raukar, Mark R. Zonfrillo, Kathleen Kane, Moira Davenport, Tamara R. Espinoza, Jessica Weiland, Vanessa Franco, Federico E. Vaca Tags: Proceedings Breakout Session Source Type: research

Dr Jiwu Chen: providing a full range of services to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Jiwu Chen, a Chinese orthopaedic surgeon, is very active in local and international societies of orthopaedic sports medicine. Since 2008, he has been committed to helping many patients through various online social media, including free online consultation platforms, instant messaging apps and short video platforms. Dr Chen was awarded China’s National Reputed Doctor Award in 2020 for his professional and voluntary service in sports medicine. He currently serves as the director of the Department of Sports Medicine, Shanghai General Hospital, and is a committee member of the Hip, Groin & Thigh and Shoulder Comm...
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - November 17, 2022 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Lin, J., Huang, H. Tags: BJSM, COVID-19 Service spotlight Source Type: research

Return to Sports and Physical Activity After Total and Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusions Low- and higher-impact sports after both TKA and UKA are possible, but it is clear that more patients RTS (including higher-impact types of sports) after UKA than after TKA. However, the overall quality of included studies was limited, mainly because confounding factors were inadequately taken into account in most studies.
Source: Sports Medicine - January 7, 2016 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research

Evidence supporting the need for bariatric surgery to address the obesity epidemic in the United States.
Abstract Despite aims at prevention, obesity in the United States is now an epidemic. Along with the rise in obesity, the United States has experienced a concomitant rise in obesity-related comorbidities. Furthermore overweight and obesity present a major economic public health challenge. Physicians are likely to recommend weight loss to their overweight patients. Diet, exercise, and behavior modification are often effective during the course of treatment but are subject to recidivism and post-treatment weight gain. Obesity intervention mandates that providers consider the need for surgery in many cases. The three...
Source: Current Sports Medicine Reports - March 1, 2015 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Bour ES Tags: Curr Sports Med Rep Source Type: research

Physical inactivity and obesity is not a myth: Dr Steven Blair comments on Dr Aseem Malhotra's editorial
Malhotra et al1 claim that ‘physical activity does not promote weight loss’. I respectfully disagree with many of the claims in the report.The authors claim that physical activity does not promote weight loss. Similar points were made in an article by Luke and Cooper published in 2013,2 and my colleagues and I published a commentary showing the weaknesses of their interpretation of the data.3 If you are interested in the details, please review that commentary. More detailed information on many of these points is presented in a position statement from the American College of Sports Medicine.4 A second flawed poi...
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - July 16, 2015 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Blair, S. N. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Vitamin D and Athletic Performance: The Potential Role of Muscle
: Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide epidemic, with well known impacts on calcium metabolism and bone health, but increasingly recognized associations with chronic health problems such as bowel and colonic cancer, arthritis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In recent years in the Sports Medicine literature, there has been an increased focus on the potential impact that inadequate Vitamin D levels may have on athletic performance.,: In the early 20th Century, athletes and coaches felt that ultraviolet rays had a positive impact on athletic performance, and while remaining limited, evidence is accumulating to support th...
Source: Asian Journal of Sports Medicine - November 30, 2011 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research

Call to Action on Making Physical Activity Assessment and Prescription a Medical Standard of Care
The U.S. population is plagued by physical inactivity, lack of cardiorespiratory fitness, and sedentary lifestyles, all of which are strongly associated with the emerging epidemic of chronic disease. The time is right to incorporate physical activity assessment and promotion into health care in a manner that engages clinicians and patients. In April 2015, the American College of Sports Medicine and Kaiser Permanente convened a joint consensus meeting of subject matter experts from stakeholder organizations to discuss the development and implementation of a physical activity vital sign (PAVS) to be obtained and recorded at ...
Source: Current Sports Medicine Reports - May 1, 2016 Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Training, Prevention, and Rehabilitation: Special Communication Source Type: research

Increased leisure-time physical activity associated with lower onset of diabetes in 44  828 adults with impaired fasting glucose: a population-based prospective cohort study.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results show higher levels of LTPA are associated with a lower risk of diabetes in IFG subjects. These data emphasise the urgent need for promoting physical activity as a preventive strategy against diabetes to offset the impact of population ageing and the growing obesity epidemic. PMID: 29331993 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - January 13, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Lao XQ, Deng HB, Liu X, Chan TC, Zhang Z, Chang LY, Yeoh EK, Tam T, Wong MCS, Thomas GN Tags: Br J Sports Med Source Type: research

Meniscal root tears: a silent epidemic.
PMID: 29574455 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - March 24, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Cinque ME, Chahla J, Moatshe G, Faucett SC, Krych AJ, LaPrade RF Tags: Br J Sports Med Source Type: research

Tools Clinicians Can Use to Help Get Patients Active.
Abstract An epidemic of physical inactivity has given rise to a population struggling with early mortality and an increase in chronic non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Primary care providers as well as other clinicians are in a position to help overcome this epidemic of physical inactivity. The goal of this commentary is to provide clinicians with resources and recommendations from the recent literature to help overcome barriers to physical activity counseling and help patients become physically active. Theory-based interventions from communication and exercise prescri...
Source: Current Sports Medicine Reports - August 1, 2018 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Kennedy AB, Hales SB Tags: Curr Sports Med Rep Source Type: research

Diabetes mellitus does not negatively impact outcomes and satisfaction following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty in well-controlled disease
ConclusionIn this matched-pair study of diabetic versus non-diabetic patients undergoing surgery for UKA, DM does not have a clinically significant negative impact on the outcomes and satisfaction following UKA in patients with well-controlled disease.
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology - January 4, 2019 Category: Sports Medicine Source Type: research