Sports Medicine Resident Guus Reurink (Academic Center for Evidence Based Medicine AMC and OLVG) was awarded with a second place British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Award.
On September 19th Ingrid Vriend will defend her PhD thesis entitled "Preventing sport injuries. From evidence to practice". The full PhD thesis can be downloaded as a pdf here soon, in the meantime you may have a look at the extensive summary below to get an idea of her work on translating injury prevention evidence to practice.
On June 21st, our own Anne Loyen will defend he PhD thesis on the prevalence and correlates of sedentary behaviour and physical activity in European adults. A digital copy of here full thesis may be requested by contacting her directly (a.loyen@vumc.nl), below you will find a summary of her work. She concludes that European public health strategies to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour levels are warranted. Individuals should be encouraged to meet the physical activity recommendations and limit and break up their sitting time, ultimately aiming for an European population with a healthy balance between sitting, standing and physical activity behaviours.
Just out in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport .. the ink still dripping from the pages. Our most recent result on the effectiveness of mobile applications as a tool for injury prevention in sports. Our study showed that the implementation method of a NMT program by using an App or a Booklet did neither lead to different injury incidence rates in the long term nor did it influence residual functional disability/pain.
Ozgur Kilic, one of our master students, got a crown on his work by the recent publication of his master's thesis on Volleyball related injuries. Currently, there is no overview of the incidence and (volleyball-specific) risk factors of musculoskeletal injuries among volleyball players, nor any insight into the effect of preventive measures on the incidence of injuries in volleyball. This study aimed to review systematically the scientific evidence on the incidence, prevalence, aetiology and preventive measures of volleyball injuries.
Rounding upon her PhD thesis, Ingrid Vriend just got a positive reply form Sports Medicine on her review that summarises the target level of published sports injury prevention studies. The aim of this review was to identify and categorise intervention strategies for the prevention of acute sport injuries evaluated in the scientific literature, applying the Haddon matrix, and identify potential knowledge gaps.
Trailrunning is a very popular mode of running. However, the risk and burden of running-related injuries (RRI) in trailrunning is not well established. This study investigates the prevalence, injury rate, severity, nature, and economic burden of RRIs in Dutch trailrunners.
The incidence and severity of head injuries in children playing organized football are low, but not all concussions receive the medical attention. Head injuries, though including concussions are considered as potentially harmful particularly in children due to the still developing brain. Consequently, information and education of coaches and parents with regard to head injuries in children and the promotion of “Fair Play” is required to raise awareness for this issue.
Significant differences exist between SCAT3 baseline section scores for footballers with and without disability. Consequently, concussion consensus guidelines should recognise these differences and produce guidelines that are specific for the growing number of athletes living with disability.
Approximately 187 million euros per year. These are the societal costs of ankle sprains in the Netherlands. For this reason alone effective prevention is of great importance. The Strengthen your Ankle project - within the programme Sport of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) - resulted in two accessible tools that support this important goal. For these results projectleader Evert Verhagen received a ZonMw Pearl on November 3, 2016 ... but this was a huge team effort!
Recently we hosted a number of students in a minor course, in which we introduced the broad field of Sports Medicine. During the course the students were given an assignment to create a mini documentary on a sport related health problem of their choice. Now we need your help in choosing which creation wins the award for the best 'sports medicine documentary' .. and this will be a tough choice while all entries are great!
Just today the latest 'trailer' on the EuroFit project got released. This video introduces the EuroFit FP7 project - an EU funded research project that seeks to improve men's health by leveraging their ambition to their football clubs.
Creating a safe sport environment is important for the Royal Dutch Hockey Association (KNHB), in partnership with the Dutch Consumer Safety Institute (VeiligheidNL) and Interpolis, created the Hockey Warming-up program. The available internship is part of the study on the effectiveness of this program in preventing hockey related injuries in children aged 10 – 17 years?
The South African Rugby Union launched the BokSmart nationwide injury prevention programme to reduce rugby- related catastrophic injuries. The aim of this qualitative study was to evaluate the coaches and referees’ perceptions of the implementation of the BokSmart programme.
On Wednesday September 7th, Kasper Janssen will defend his PhD thesis "Brace versus Balance Board", on the cost-effectiveness of preventive measures against secondary ankle ligament injuries. Prevention of ankle sprains could preserve health in people who participate in high-risk sports and in those who have suffered a previous ankle ligament injury.
When establishing the effectiveness of any injury prevention intervention, knowledge about which percentage of the studied population complied with the prescribed protocol is required. Especially in an intention-to-treat (ITT) approach, insights into the compliance to the intervention provides valuable and, arguably, necessary information to judge the efficacy and effectiveness of an intervention.
Mireille van Poppel is part of an IOC expert group with the task to review the literature on physical activity and exercise (1) during pregnancy and (2) after childbirth, using rigorous systematic review and search criteria. Recently their first guideline on exercise during pregnancy was published.
The ink on this one is still wet. Dirk Dessing and his SchoolZones team just published this study that aimed to increase our understanding of environmental correlates associated with route choice during active transportation to school (ATS). They compared characteristics of actual walking and cycling routes between home and school with the shortest possible route to school.
E-health has the potential to facilitate implementation of effective measures to prevent sports injuries. This article form the study of Miriam van Reijen evaluated whether an interactive mobile application containing a proven effective exercise programme to prevent recurrent ankle sprains resulted in higher compliance as compared with regular written exercise materials.
Met plezier kondigen we de feestelijke viering aan van de accreditatie van de Amsterdam Collaboration for Health and Safety in Sports (ACHSS) door het Internationale Olympische Comité (IOC). ACHSS is ontstaan vanuit een samenwerking tussen de afdelingen Sociale Geneeskunde van het VUmc en Orthopedie van het AMC, waarbij de preventie en behandeling van sportletsels bij Olympische atleten in breedste zin het uitgangspunt is. Onder treft u het programma van deze dag. Wat ons betreft een mooie mix van internationale, nationale en lokale verhalen over het bevorderen en beschermen van de gezondheid van atleten. Het doet ons genoegen om te kunnen delen dat professor Lars Engebretsen, hoofd van het IOC medisch onderzoek, ons deze middag zal vergezellen. Wij kijken er in ieder geval al reikhalzend naar uit en hopen deze middag samen met u een mooie officiële aftrap te kunnen geven van deze vruchtbare samenwerking tussen VUmc en AMC.
Patients with OA of the knee are progressively being restricted in their activities. Since a knee arthroplasty (KA) is a well accepted, cost-effective intervention to relieve pain, restore function and improve health-related quality of life, indications are expanding to younger and more active patients. However, evidence concerning return to sports (RTS) and physical activity (PA) after KA is sparse.The aim of this paper was to systematically summarise the available literature concerning the extent to which patients can RTS and be physically active after total (TKA) and unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA), as well as the time it takes.
On Friday the 8th of April, the Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science (AISS) will be teaming up with the TU Delft Sports Engineering Institute to organise the Science and Engineering Conference on Sports Innovations (SECSI). The aim of the conference is to bring together scientific research with respect to sport and sport innovation. Unlike the title suggests, the conference is not limited to Engineering, but deals with sports and innovations in the broadest sense.
Fifteen percent of the world’s population live with disability, and many of these individuals choose to play sport. There are barriers to sport participation for athletes with disability and sports injury can greatly impact on daily life, which makes sports injury prevention additionally important. The purpose of this review was to systematically review the definitions, methodologies and injury rates in disability sport, which should assist future identification of risk factors and development of injury prevention strategies.
Miriam van Reijen just got the second paper in her PhD out in Sports Medicine. This review sought to described how sport injury prevention studies vary in the way compliance with an intervention is defined, measured and adjusted for. The review was conducted in conjunction with our colleagues from the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP).
Evidence on the detrimental health effects of prolonged sedentary behavior is accumulating. Interventions need to have a specific focus on sedentary behavior in order to generate clinically meaningful decreases in sedentary time. When evaluating such intervention, the question whether a participant improved or deteriorated their behavior is fundamental and instruments that are able to detect those changes are essential. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the criterion validity against activPAL and responsiveness to change of two activity monitors (ActiGraph and activPAL) and two questionnaires for the assessment of occupational sitting and standing time.
We just got word that our ACHSS team has been proposed and nominated for the VU University medical center Team Award 2015. Of course we hope to turn this nomination into this highly regarded price, yet the nomination in itself is already a great reward for the effort of the whole team! The winning team will be announced on January 4th .. so stay tuned for more.
On november 24th, Laura Viester will defend her thesis on worksite health promotion in the construction industry. This project was carried in a joint effort between our research group, the research group Work and Health of our department and TNO.
The purpose of this collaborative study with ErasmusMC in Rotterdam study was to describe the prevalence, incidence and risk factors for climbing-related injuries of the upper extremities in recreational climbers. In doing so this study is amongst the first to report on the injury spectrum in this fast growing sport.
Out of our newly established collaboration between VUmc and AMC, this recently published study explored the associations of severe musculoskeletal injuries (joint and muscles) and surgeries with symptoms of common mental disorders (distress, anxiety/ depression, sleeping disturbance, adverse alcohol behaviour, smoking, adverse nutrition behaviour) among male European professional footballers.
This year at the ACSM we will offer you a novel approach to a colloquium for which we need your help to succeed. Through a colloquium we will present a so-called “flipped classroom”. Instead of providing you, the audience, with the answers and solutions to specific sports injury research methodologies, we want to learn which methodological sports injury research issues keep you busy.