Spot Dx — A post-rugby elbow injury
Josh is a 34-year-old, left-hand-dominant man who presents with right elbow pain. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below. If you select the…
Tag: Musculoskeletal – Sports medicine
Spot Dx — Thigh mass is quite the kicker
Duncan, 43, presents with a six-week history of a soft tissue mass in the right upper thigh. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz…
Cholera shots, prophylactic antibiotics and 200,000 condoms — medicine at the Olympics
Associate Professor Carolyn Broderick’s preparation for the Paris Olympics has not involved reps or running but wargaming for a gastro outbreak and river-borne Escherichia coli.…
Medical Must-See: Basketballer’s remarkable rebound from open ankle dislocation
A professional basketballer who sustained an open, fracture-free ankle dislocation during a game returned to the court at the top of his game just three months later,…
Medical Must-See: Think this is appendicitis? You might want to sleep on it
The cause of this patient's pain was tucked at the bottom of the differential diagnosis.
Doctor ‘ready to fight’ for his home of Ukraine
Sports medicine specialist Dr Dmytro Babelyuk of Lviv is among an army of doctors staying to help injured and sick citizens.
Let’s be honest, is cricket really useful exercise?
Testing times as researchers promote health benefits of Twenty20 over one-day matches.
Cold water thrown on ice baths after sport
Athletes wishing to rebuild muscle should avoid cold water immersion, says researcher.
Mythbuster: 3 reasons runners can ditch stretches
It may improve joint flexibility but this won't impact injury or performance, say physiotherapists.
Elite footballers five times more likely to die from Alzheimer’s
But there's no need to panic, according to study editorial.
