Sports Medicine

Dog owners more likely to exercise

10 Aug, 2017 | 21:06h | UTC

Dog ownership supports the maintenance of physical activity during poor weather in older English adults: cross-sectional results from the EPIC Norfolk cohort – Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (free)

Commentary: Dog owners more likely to exercise regularly – Reuters (free) AND Quantifying the Benefits of Owning a Dog – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Preventing Overuse Shoulder Injuries Among Throwing Athletes

10 Aug, 2017 | 21:34h | UTC

Preventing Overuse Shoulder Injuries Among Throwing Athletes: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial in 660 Elite Handball Players – British Journal of Sports Medicine, via Medscape (free registration required)

Physical Activity and Mortality in Prostate Cancer

10 Aug, 2017 | 21:01h | UTC

Recreational Physical Activity in Relation to Prostate Cancer–specific Mortality Among Men with Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer – European Urology (free)

Commentary: Exercise linked to lower mortality with early prostate cancer – Reuters (free)

The best running stride? The one that comes naturally

9 Aug, 2017 | 15:59h | UTC

The best running stride? The one that comes naturally – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Association of Resistance Exercise With the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome

5 Aug, 2017 | 19:15h | UTC

Association of Resistance Exercise, Independent of and Combined With Aerobic Exercise, With the Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

Commentaries: Metabolic syndrome: An hour of resistance training per week may cut risk – Medical News Today (free) AND Resistance Training Tied to Lower Risk for Metabolic Syndrome – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Environmental/lifestyle factors in the pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes

5 Aug, 2017 | 18:11h | UTC

Review: Environmental/lifestyle factors in the pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes – BMC Medicine (free)

A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain

4 Aug, 2017 | 16:52h | UTC

A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain – VOX (free)

“Mainstream medicine has failed people with chronic back pain”

A soft robotic exosuit improves walking in patients after stroke

3 Aug, 2017 | 20:40h | UTC

A soft robotic exosuit improves walking in patients after stroke – Science Translational Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Robotic Exosuit Improves Walking After Stroke – Medscape (free registration required) AND Watch a robotic exoskeleton help a stroke patient walk – Science (free text and video)

Tai Chi for Risk of Falls. A Meta-analysis

3 Aug, 2017 | 19:31h | UTC

Tai Chi for Risk of Falls. A Meta-analysis – Journal of The American Geriatrics Society (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Meta-Analysis: Tai Chi Keeps Seniors from Falling – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Tai chi may help reduce rate of falls in older and at-risk adults – News Medical (free)

‘Can reduce fall rates by almost half during the first year’ (from MedPage Today)

Effectiveness of oral glucosamine for knee and hip osteoarthritis

3 Aug, 2017 | 14:03h | UTC

Subgroup analyses of the effectiveness of oral glucosamine for knee and hip osteoarthritis: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis from the OA trail bank – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text) (RT @PhysioMeScience see Tweet)

“Currently, there is no good evidence to support the use of glucosamine for hip or knee OA”

First-time patellar dislocation guidelines

3 Aug, 2017 | 13:29h | UTC

I.S.Mu.L.T. first-time patellar dislocation guidelines – Muscle, Ligaments and Tendons Journal (free)

The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents

1 Aug, 2017 | 22:39h | UTC

Report: The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Shifting the Focus to Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

Online education, pain coaching and advice by video conference can reduce knee pain

28 Jul, 2017 | 18:10h | UTC

Online education, pain coaching and advice by video conference can reduce knee pain – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Effectiveness of an Internet-Delivered Exercise and Pain-Coping Skills Training Intervention for Persons With Chronic Knee Pain: A Randomized Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine (free) AND Commentaries: Online Intervention Reduces Knee Pain, Improves Mobility – Medscape (free registration required) AND The Internet may be an effective tool for treating chronic knee pain – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Chronic knee pain eased with the help of Skype – CNN (free text and video)

“Reduced pain for 73% of knee pain patients receiving videoconference physio, pain coaching and online education” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

The Toll of Exercise on the Heart

28 Jul, 2017 | 15:57h | UTC

The Toll of Exercise on the Heart (and Why You May Not Need to Worry) – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football

27 Jul, 2017 | 16:03h | UTC

Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football – JAMA (free)

Author interview: Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players (free video)

Commentaries: High Prevalence of Evidence of CTE in Brains of Deceased Football Players – JAMA Network (free) AND Brain disease CTE seen in most football players in large report – STAT News (free) AND 110 N.F.L. Brains – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Signs of brain disease in 99 percent of ex-NFL players studied: paper – Reuters (free) AND Study: CTE Found In Nearly All Donated NFL Player Brains – NPR (free)

“A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head” (from NYT).