UK Sport's 'Muscle Strain Think Tank' published in international journal
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Decathlete Roman Sebrle receives early treatment for a hamstring strain in Valcencia last week
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Jessica Whitehorn 13 March 2008
Best practice guidance on the early treatment of muscle strains - ensuring a speedy return to sport for injured athletes - has just been published in international peer review journal the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). The move comes as a result of a workshop on the topic involving the world's leading experts, led by UK Sport.
The ‘Think Tank’ workshop was organised by the Sports Medicine and Sports Science team at UK Sport as part of their commitment to enhancing sports medicine and science delivery to elite athletes via the sharing of knowledge, experience and ideas. The topic for discussion, ‘muscle strains’, is of vital importance to any practitioner working in high-level sport or, indeed, any athlete wanting to perform at the highest level.
The workshop brought together the UK’s leading sports medicine clinicians including representatives from the English Institute of Sport and the Olympic Medical Institute, as well as three of the world’s leading experts in the epidemiology, physiology and treatment of muscle strains; Dr John Orchard of Sydney University’s Sports Medicine department, Dr Thomas Best of Ohio State University Medical Center and Dr Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt of Bayern Munich Football Club.
This meeting of some of the greatest minds in this field resulted in various discussions surrounding muscle strains, but the experts’ interest naturally came to focus on the early management of such injuries, a critical factor in ensuring a prompt return for athletes to training and competition. The ‘best practice’ recommendations resulting from this forum were then produced in an article for publication in the BJSM.
UK Sport's Performance Development Consultant Glenn Hunter, an expert sports physiotherapist, said: “This think tank was part of a series of science and medicine initiatives designed to ensure that we are at the forefront of applied performance knowledge; our athletes aim to be the best in the world, and so do we at UK Sport.”
The article, “The early management of muscle strains in the elite athlete: best practice in a world with a limited evidence basis” (Orchard et al. Br J Sports Med. 2008; 42: 158-159), is available to download from the BJSM’s website via subscription. To view the abstract please click here
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