Sport & Exercise Physician, @AxisSportsMed | Medical Director Athletics NZ | Chair Education Committee @ACSEP_ | Opinions are all my own.
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined February 2015
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Alana Barber crosses in 1:40:59 (27th) in the 20km race walk at the IAAF World Champs in Doha - a gutsy effort to finish in tough conditions 🌿👊
If we are not careful there is a risk specialisation will be blamed for all ills in youth sport. Yes there are harms and very very few benefits. But we can’t blame it for all the badness. Currently this message is getting lost in NZ.
We can’t attribute the increased ACL incidence to early specialisation. Evidence does not clearly support an increased risk of acute injury with specialisation. We need be cautious with respect to the harms we attribute to sport specialisation
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Thanks @jessicajorchard for presenting this!
A great resource fostering safe sports participation developed by world experts @DreznerJon @dianarobdoc @dan_exeter @ACSEP_
How good is this! Great to see the pocket CRT in there
Rugby Headgear
Well done @canterburyNZ
Good honest advice re the limitations of Rugby Headgear.
Fantastic way to educate by including Concussion advice.
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If In Doubt, Sit Them Out
Thanks to Siobian for sharing 👍
If you ever want an understanding of how hard it must be to be a GP, go and present at a GP conference and look at the range of topics covered. One minute menorrhagia the next how to assess paediatric rashes. My head nearly exploded just looking at the programme.
Call me naive but have just found out that in NZ you can order own blood tests without needing to see a Dr (or anyone) AND without having a follow up. In a world where abnormal results are overinterpreted, and we need clincal context more than ever, how is this good medicine?
This study will def be worth a read....
There is actually evidence @PabloTorre @Foxworth24 @HIGHNOONonESPN to suggest that playing multiple sports in high schools will lead to a better #NBA career. The link to our study is below:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Day 2 here in Singapore. Looking forward to doing some practical teaching out in the steamy heat @DrMarkFulcher
@DrMarkFulcher still running his strong media game @radiosportnz whilst up here in Singapore. And repping the branded hat too @AxisSportsMed
On a roadie to talk at a conference with 4 other Sport and Exercise Physicians. Pre-conference roadies should be mandatory. Chat is a wonderful fusion of peer review with the ramblings of people at a bar...
And remember that ‘play’ is good. I have a feeling that sometimes we are replacing ‘play’ with ‘organised’ sport in our pre-teens
“It really is about finding that sweet spot. We have to get kids into that spot and not push them out the other side.” – @dan_exeter. Are your kids burning out from playing too much sport? acc.nz/2QxTIro
Well @ACCNZ are giving it a nudge... but in an ideal world I think we would have better answers already... still some work to be done on how we collect injury data in NZ. Scope to truly lead the world here...
Interesting article, love that @ACCNZ is collecting this injury data n different sports. @ACSEP_ position statement on child early sport specialization @dan_exeter
Headline a bit inflammatory... not quite what was actually said... but you can’t control the headline writers ....but yep Matt, always grateful to have @ACCNZ here in NZ
Very interesting topic in youth sport. The beauty of the NZ system is that it allows for changes in injury patterns to be identified and strategies and public awareness messages to be implemented.
nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic…
Please @ACCNZ can we stop allowing USS of the knee to be ordered when the question is around chondral or mensical injury or ‘internal derangement.’ It adds nothing over Hx/Ex. And that doesn’t mean they always need an MRI instead. #choosingwisely not #burningcash
Well at least in Straya you are trying to cut back on unnecessary imaging. Here in NZ it seems @ACCNZ want to see more MRIs by broadening access to funded scans, and don’t get me started on the knee USS epidemic.
We seriously need to have a conversation about unwarranted MRI scans. Patient belief - top shelf care they all deserve vs reality - iatrogenic suffering at great public expense @CatherineKingMP @billshortenmp @GregHuntMP @ACSEP_ .
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If I had just seen this video first it would have saved a writing whole position statement @ACSEP_ @ACCNZ 😭 Great advice from a sporting legend #sportspecialisation
Excellent advice from @rogerfederer on the importance of not specializing too early and the benefits of playing other sports in your teens. 👏👏👏
From the size of that stage and those slides it looks like there’s enough room for all of China in that auditorium #ChairmanFulch #BSD
Talking about the @NZ_Football SmartStart programme. Get an AED on the sideline.
#Fit4Football
Streuth! A real shame to see our Strayan cobbas not being given a fair suck of the sav. Is this un-Australian? @DrJohnOrchard @ACastricum @DrLouiseTulloh
High out of pockets? Check this out. Consider a patient with osteoarthritis, overweight, pain, depression who also needs advice on exercise! See a SEM physician vs a rheumatologist. #equity @GregHuntMP @CatherineKingMP @ama_media
