Rollcage Medic Podcast

Feast your ears and eyes on podcast and vodcast goodness, as I pick the brains of the leading lights of the motor sport medicine and rescue community.

Some will be well known, others working in the background, but all are experts in their field with acres of experience that they are willing to share.

So tune in, turn on and absorb the goodness.

Subscribe to the Rollcage Medic Podcast on iTunes

Showing Tag: "concussion" (Show all posts)

Podcast 26 and 27 - Concussion in Sport with Prof David Hughes (AIS)

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, In : Interviews 


David Hughes is a sports physician. He's a professor too. And he got together with two of his colleagues, Lisa Elkington and Silvia Manzanero, to sift through the joint consensus statement on concussion in sport that went through its most recent update in Berlin in 2016 and come up with a position statement on concussion in sport for Australia. The position statement was a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA); so this is bi...

Continue reading ...
 

Podcast 24 - ICMS ACG 2017 Day 2

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, January 12, 2018, In : Conferences 


And so to the final day of the ICMS annual congress. Following on from day 1, today covered:

  • A description of the Billy Monger / Patrick Pasma Formula 4 crash at Donnington Park along with the interventions and follow up thereafter.
  • An overview of and updates to the FIA's RaceTrue anti-doping program
  • The Dan Q Marisi Lecture
  • A panel presentation on developments in occulovestibular reflex testing and its application to concussion assessment in motor sport
  • A presentation on the physical and physiolo...

Continue reading ...
 

Podcast 21 - Concussion in Motor Sport - A literature review

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, November 4, 2017, In : Clinical topic 



Concussion is an ongoing issue in sport. It has gained a lot of attention over the past few years in turn driving attempts to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Have a look through the “References and resources” section below for previous posts and podcasts concerning concussion on this website.

Most of the work done on sports-related concussion has occurred in field and contact sports, such as rugby, gridiron and horse events. Predictably, there is an increasing awareness of t...

Continue reading ...
 

Podcast 16 - Michael Hoffer and Virtual Reality for concussion

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, February 10, 2017, In : Interviews 
(Image from Dr S. Olvey's presentation slides at the ICMS 2016 AGM)

More concussion. We can't get enough of it. It has mushroomed over the past few years and is firmly in the public awareness, especially amongst sports competitors.

Until recently, there have been two levels of diagnosis; point of care and clinic-based. Point of care testing occurs on the sidelines or in the event medical centre and needs to be:
  • rapid,
  • easily applied,
  • cheap,
  • easily accessible
  • and have good test characteristics (...

Continue reading ...
 
« Back to posts
 

Tags