Orthopaedic and sports medicine

Dr Michael Selby
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Dr Mike Selby discusses the fundamentals of recognising developing scoliosis.

Dr Michael Selby
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In today’s podcast, experts Dr Mike Selby and Dr Jeb McAviney discuss timely and appropriate scoliosis treatments, including screening, evaluation, referral, and motion-preserving surgical options for younger patients.

Joshua Pate
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The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important ligament in the knee. It runs from the thigh bone (femur) to the shin bone (tibia) and helps stabilise the knee joint.

A/Prof Solomon Yu
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In this Product Explainer Geriatrician A/Prof Solomon Yu explains the importance of integrating muscle health screening, diagnosis and management in routine clinical practice, and the role of early intervention including HMB enriched oral nutritional supplementation for preventing and reversing sarcopenia.

Andrew Lavender
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Where there are players and a game to be won, you can expect some “rough and tumble” on the sporting field. But when do the bumps become a problem for players? And what can we do to protect them from traumatic brain injury?

Prof Robin Daly
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In this Product Explainer Prof Robin Daly, Chair of Exercise & Ageing, Deakin University explains how a HMB enriched oral nutritional supplementation can help to protect muscle mass, strength, and function, and its potential role in the management of sarcopenia (5 mins).

Joyce McSwan
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This article discusses the assessment and management of acute low back pain in general practice according to the best available evidence to date.

Expert/s: Joyce McSwan
Joyce McSwan
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Joyce McSwan explains that LBP is one of the leading causes of diminished quality of life and disability worldwide.  In primary healthcare, it is one of the most common presenting ailments.

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Dr Linda Calabresi
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According to a neat little randomised control trial published in JAMA, wearing individualised biomechanical footwear can significantly reduce knee pain in patients with osteoarthritis. The six-month study also showed that the footwear improved the function of the knee as judged by gait studies into velocity and step length.

University of Queensland
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Most children will recover fully from concussion, but one in ten has persistent symptoms.University of Queensland researchers have just completed a study between these symptoms and long-term disability risk, and the results are striking.Poor sleep post-concussion in particular was linked to reduced brain function and decreased grey matter, with fatigue and attention difficulties also being potential indicators.Using information on reductions in brain function, researchers were able to predict with 86 percent accuracy how children would recover two months from sustaining a concussion.“Generally, children with persistent concussion symptoms will have alterations to their visual, motor and cognitive brain regions but we don’t have a clear understanding of how this develops and how it relates to future recovery,” said study author and UQ Child Health Research Centre Research Fellow, Dr Kartik Iyer.

Brian Brooks
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Active kids sustain injuries. It is estimated that every year more than 100,000 Canadian children and adolescents get a concussion while participating in normal childhood activities, like sports and play.Most kids return to school and activities within about one month of the injury, but sometimes they need specialized concussion treatment and rehabilitation.Our recent study, published in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, found that psychotherapy can improve adolescents’ insomnia after concussion and that it also improves overall post-concussion recovery.

Dr Linda Calabresi
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It’s that time of year. Cold weather. Footy season. Finals approaching. Muscles pulled. Ankles twisted….Of course, the elite sportspeople will have their support team to strap, massage, rehabilitate and retrain the injured joint or muscle – coaxing it back to good health. But for your average ill-fated weekend exerciser with a sprained ankle, they will present in general practice (generally on a Monday) wanting advice on how to expedite their recovery inexpensively and in a manner that doesn’t risk further injury.