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Change to Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians--position statement: the place of mesenchymal stem/stromal cell therapies in sport and exercise medicine
The Board of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians has recently learnt concerns of the Australian Government, other medical colleges and our own fellowship regarding the safety of procedures involved with the provision of stem cell therapy to patients. These concerns are partially driven by reports recently published in the lay media, scientific literature and a coroner’s report. A recent case report in the New England Journal of Medicine1 of a glioproliferative tumour in the spine after treatment with a mixture of mesenchymal, embryonic and fetal allogeneic stem cells for residual effects of a st...
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - September 29, 2016 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Osborne, H., Castricum, A. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Exercise medicine and physical activity promotion: core curricula for US medical schools, residencies and sports medicine fellowships: developed by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine
Regular physical activity provides a variety of health benefits and is proven to treat and prevent several non-communicable diseases. Specifically, physical activity enhances muscular and osseous strength, improves cardiorespiratory fitness, and reduces the risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, mental health disorders, cognitive decline and several cancers. Despite these well-known benefits, physical activity promotion in clinical practice is underused due to insufficient training during medical education. Medical trainees in the USA receive relatively few hours of instruction in sports and...
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - March 17, 2022 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Asif, I., Thornton, J. S., Carek, S., Miles, C., Nayak, M., Novak, M., Stovak, M., Zaremski, J. L., Drezner, J. Tags: Editor's choice, BJSM Consensus statement Source Type: research