Team physicians from Africa: great opportunity here from the IOC - no costs - registration, travel, meals, & accommodation for 2 docs/country to this year's Advanced Teams Physicians' courses in Senegal. Please share far and wide (your national Olympic Committee has the details)

Trying to pool data from diagnostic studies means knowing the raw data, but that's not always given. This app lets you enter what is given, and it titerates through all possibilities to give you most likely candidates: whiteleyrod-confusionmatrixcalculator-app-rubass.streamlit.app Find the bugs!

I honestly thought that the analgaesia from BFR was placebo, so we did a sham-controlled crossover RCT, and seems there's something there: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Probably not due to sensitisation-local or global When you need to do strength training but can't might be an option

THIS

Scientific journals adding value again, and making reviewers' lives easy - here we have 2 sets of line numbers, one of which is conveniently superimposed over the reference numbers, presumably to make it easier for me to figure these our while doing my review

🧪 New paper alert! We keep trying to understand muscle-tendon crosstalk. Here we determined whether exosomes could explain why serum after resistance exercise makes bigger stronger tendons. Contrary to our hypothesis, it is not exosomes. The search goes on. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some experiments advance science. Others advance the reviewer’s sense of power. Guess which costs more. #FridayThoughts

Spotted this guy eating his lunch while walking through downtown Kuala Lumpur today

ooh look at me it took me ten years to invent my own job and i only have headshots that make me look like a kindly potato also i really enjoyed this interview www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Outstanding practical review of the recovery modalities available and more importantly, when to implement from Martin Buchheit in this morning's Aspetar Rehab CPD session

Finally in print physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... Time to rethink cold/ice after muscle injury - cold slows everything down, including healing. Reminder that ice for injury was built on very shaky foundations. Better strength after just 4 days, hot water also better for pain

Let's go! www.nature.com/articles/d41... @jamesheathers.bsky.social

In preparation for OSTRC 25th Anniversary, playing around thinking about the interaction of training types and parameters on different tissue types. Make an interactive app to explore here: tissueloadingsimulator-nqf3v5xzz3lysvz2wk365n.streamlit.app Feedback appreciated

Just got an advance print version of the next edition of the Aspetar Journal - Imaging in Sports Medicine targeted topic. Maybe the best issue we've done? All issues free, open access of course (journal.aspetar.com/en/home#!) If sports medicine imaging is your thing, do yourself a favour

When a STALT error messes up your pagination.

Sometimes you send a talk title and you think: "they probably won't go for it". WELL, THEY SURE SHOWED ME. The talk is on May 20th, Midday AEST. Signup is in the last skleet here. ⬇️⬇️ What's it about? I'LL TELL YOU.

Elsevier giving no shits ep#98237 "Log in here to confirm your co-authorship..." Password saved by browser rejected (too old) Login w ORCID "You have to link ORCID to Elsevier *for every single Elsevier journal*" Remind me who's generating content here? 3 password resets later & Elsevier's response:

We are recruiting @Aspetar Looking for #physiotherapists throughout career stages (>5yr grad) to join the Rehab Dept & greater multi-disciplinary team Apply Here: tinyurl.com/yj6s7jcu Any queries just reach out!

I've seen lots of posts pointing out errors LLM's make, sometimes inferring this kind of AI is dumb or a dead end. This (long) video explained how LLM's really work, and gave me good insight on when and how to use & not use them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG... Really helpful IMO

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

🚀 New publication! Our RCT in BJSM shows reducing tendon compression improves rehab outcomes in insertional Achilles tendinopathy! 📊 Key findings: ✅ Greater pain relief & function ✅ Higher patient satisfaction ✅ Higher return-to-sport success 🔗 bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

New one from our group showing that 9 months wasn't a magic cut off point for return to sport after ACLR *if* you met our discharge criteria. bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl... *how* you return is much more important than *when* you return to sport. Criteria driven rehab was the key to our results

New from Lauren Pringels & co confirming previous research suggesting compressive aetiology of some tendinopathy & the need for different management (avoiding compression): bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp... (LTCR=Low tendon compression rehab)

Excellent short overview of the state of play in muscle and tendon injury management in athletes from Michael Kjaer & co: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... importantly outlining where we should be focusing our efforts next. #OpenAccess

Elsevier's review process adding more value to science...

Nice trick from Hercules Pacquet here at Aspetar to get ankle DF ROM - pulley has 60kg (for this 100kg athlete) & patient self-mobilises. Saves my hands & better results. We did 3x6 mins, got 4.5cm DF ROM increase immediately, dropped to 3cm increase the next day.

2025 is a great year to make sure all new studies you perform have a solid sample size justification, where your peers can see the study was designed to have high informational value for the question you are asking: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

Half my admissions tonight are for the flu. Get your flu shot.

Wonderful graduation ceremony for the new physiotherapists graduating from the University of Otago. Impressive group indeed, looking forward to how they drive the prison forward.

Finishing up the thigh muscle injury conference with the Aspetar Tuesday lecture from Martin Hägglund.

Helen McKeever leading a great team working towards a summary of recommendations for care of rectus femoris injury in athletes. Great legacy from the Aspetar thigh muscle injury conference over the last few days

Psoas major explains the most variance in to speed, more than the next 3 muscles combined. Fastest runners don't have muscle mass in their calves (which need to get swung at the end of the pendulum)

Bryan Heiderscheit reminding us of the differences in positive and negative work as speed increases. Note the exponential, not linear, increases in eccentric work required as speed increases

Awesome view here listening to Anthony Schache walk through marrying up field based strength testing with the loads required during sprinting and kicking - 2.5Nm/kg seems to be the pass bar for both (assuming top speed is about 9m/s). Worryingly big increases for the top speeds though beyond this

Marcelo Bordalo with some very interesting findings on a series of 409 biceps T-junction injuries (from 9000 hamstring injuries) suggesting reinjury rates might not be that horrible. Paper to come...

Without imaging, what features suggest tendon involvement? Noel Pollock (ISEH. London). MRI wins, but some clinical clues as well

Wonderful thread below. Scientific American taught me, as someone who writes a few scientific papers, of the importance of stand-alone figures. Don't make the reader go back into the text to grok your money shot.

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

Migrating from the other place just got easier: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f... Chrome extension to find everyone you follow over there, and follow if they are here

My amazing colleague Marcelo Bordalo has reviewed all our MRI's since we opened, and re-read all the hamstring injuries to see if the newly identified "T-junction" injury is associated with a higher recurrence rate - data to be presented at the thigh muscle conference: aspetar.com/en/professio...

Run, don't walk it's only a week until you can join 600 of us at the Aspetar thigh muscle injury conference

Just a week to go until the Aspetar thigh muscle injury conference at the iconic Khalifa Stadium. Not too late to join the nearly 600 registrants hear from an incredible lineup we've been lucky to put together aspetar.com/en/professio...

Part 3 of the Hindawi Files is finally finished. Who wants to read about the role of the publisher in the biggest research integrity screwup of all time? (You do, you clever little sausage.) open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

Where’s the feed for qualitative research in healthcare?

Looks like paracetamol might not be benign for tendons - 12 weeks of resistance training with placebo, Ibuprofen, or paracetamol (older adults, 75%1RM) seems to make the tendon more floppy. More cool work form the Danes journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10....

Apologies to anyone I was close to at the SMA conference on the Sunshine Coast in the last few days - got sick on Saturday night/Sunday, turns out I have COVID. If you're feeling crook - get tested, this thing isn't over, and COVID is airborne

Very cool moment at the Sports Medicine Australia announcement for the "Best of the Best" award - 3 judges, 4 papers, and it came down to a total of 4 points between 1st and 4th