Weekend reading:
“Role of Milk and Dairy Products in Health and Prevention of Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases: A Series of Systematic Reviews”
https://academic.oup.com/advances/issue/10/suppl_2
“People with low back pain want clear, consistent and personalised information on prognosis, treatment options and self-management strategies: a systematic review”
“Five good reasons to be disappointed with randomized trials”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10669817.2019.1589697
Vitamin D Supplementation and Cardiovascular Disease Risks in More Than 83 000 Individuals in 21 Randomized Clinical Trials: A Meta-Analysis
Association Between Self-reported Prenatal Cannabis Use and Maternal, Perinatal, and Neonatal Outcomes
"Exercise and Osteoarthritis: Science says stay active.”
Osteoarthritis is usually not a mechanical wear and tear process. If you have osteoarthritis, exercise will not wear out your knee joints…
Reading time: 10 min read
"Prevalence of abnormalities in knees detected by MRI in adults without knee osteoarthritis: population based observational study”
Objective To examine use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of knees with no radiographic evidence of osteoarthritis to determine the prevalence of structural lesions associated with osteoarthritis and their relation to age, sex, and obesity. ...
"Determining Strength: A Case for Multiple Methods of Measurement”
Muscle strength is often measured through the performance of a one-repetition maximum (1RM). However, we that feel a true measurement of ‘strength’ remains elusive. For example, low-load alternatives to traditional resistance training result in...
"Essential key messages about diagnosis, imaging, and self-care for people with low back pain”
"Comparison of Conventional Lipoprotein Tests and Apolipoproteins in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease”
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.041149
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Weekend Reading, 2nd Weekend of August edition:
“Endocrinological Roles for Testosterone in Resistance Exercise Responses and Adaptations”
Endocrinological Roles for Testosterone in Resistance Exercise Responses and Adaptations - PubMed
“Youth Versus. Adult “Weightlifting” Injuries Presenting to United States Emergency Rooms: Accidental Versus Nonaccidental Injury Mechanisms”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034275/?log$=activity
“Sexual Activities as Risk Factors of Rotator Cuff Lesions: A Prospective Cohort Study”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244532/?log$=activity
“Aerobic Exercise Performance and Muscle Strength in Statin Users- The LIFESTAT Study”
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
“The Temin Effect”
https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(17)33295-5/fulltext
Weekend Reading:
“Whole-Grain Consumption Does Not Affect Obesity Measures: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials”
https://academic.oup.com/advances/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/advances/nmz076/5544783
“No consensus on causality of spine postures or physical exposure and low back pain: A systematic review of systematic reviews”
“Is an Energy Surplus Required to Maximize Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy Associated With Resistance Training”
“The Effect of Low-Volume High-Intensity Interval Training on Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”
“The Placebo and Nocebo effect on sports performance: A systematic review”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17461391.2019.1655098
“Reconciling spinal flexion and pain: We are all doomed to failure, but perhaps it doesn’t matter”
“The world before vaccines is a world we can’t afford to forget”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/08/cannot-forget-world-before-vaccines/
“The Neuroscience of Reality”
“Gluten Does Not Induce Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Healthy Volunteers: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Trial”
https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(19)40896-2/fulltext
“5 Reasons It’s So Hard To Think Like A Scientist”
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/06/20/5-reasons-its-so-hard-to-think-like-a-scientist/
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Late Weekend Reading:
"Association of high amounts of physical activity with mortality risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis”
“Three steps to changing the narrative about knee osteoarthritis care: a call to action”
Knee osteoarthritis (OA), characterised by knee pain and functional limitation,1 2 is widely understood to imply that symptoms are due to structural damage. This view leads to the belief that non-surgical approaches are futile and the structural...
“The Message of Measles”
4.“2 years of calorie restriction and cardiometabolic risk (CALERIE): exploratory outcomes of a multicentre, phase 2, randomised controlled trial”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(19)30151-2/fulltext
New UK Physical Activity Guidelines 2019: "for the first time additional guidance is provided for being active during pregnancy and after birth, and for disabled adults”
New guidelines demonstrate the comprehensive benefits of any physical activity for anyone, say the UK's Chief Medical Officers
Est. reading time: 6 minutes
Weekend Reading / Viewing
Can you really “release” the psoas?
https://twitter.com/function2fitnes/status/1188553721946542080
The dehumanization of the patient
Abraar Karan considers the implications of healthcare systems that prime doctors to see people as patients “It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a [...]More...
Est. reading time: 6 minutes
Intra-articular Corticosteroid Injections in the Hip and Knee: Perhaps Not as Safe as We Thought?
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2019190341#.XaZrfcjSkao.twitter
It is time to move beyond ‘body region silos’ to manage musculoskeletal pain: five actions to change clinical practice
Current clinical research, education and practice commonly approaches musculoskeletal pain conditions in silos. A focus on body regions such as knee, hip, neck, shoulder and back pain as separate entities is manifest by region-specific clinical...
Apolipoprotein B particles and cardiovascular disease
Musculoskeletal healthcare: Have we over‐egged the pudding?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1756-185X.13710
Vitamin D and Health Outcomes: Then Came the Randomized Clinical Trials
Not long ago, vitamin D was riding high. Beyond its role in calcium homeostasis and bone health, animal studies linked vitamin D deficiency to numerous chronic illnesses including hypertension, diabetes, autoimmunity, and malignancy.1 Corroborating...
Medicine and the Mind — The Consequences of Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1910603
Immune amnesia: Another reason why measles is a serious illness
Two new studies, this time finding immune amnesia due to measles, show why measles is serious and you should vaccinate your children.
Est. reading time: 11 minutes
Muscle Strengthening, Aerobic Exercise, and Obesity: A Pooled Analysis of 1.7 Million US Adults
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22673
I’m looking for the article you posted on your IG profile yesterday about Vitamin D. Can you please re-share the link? Thank you!
“Don’t lose sight of the trees for the forest” – my BBM rehab experience
For the past four and half months I have been coached by Dr. Michael Ray, a coach at Barbell Medicine who specializes in pain and rehabilitation. When I started working with him back in May, I had been dealing with a shoulder injury for several...
Est. reading time: 9 minutes
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
This study uses deidentified US tax records to estimate race- and ethnicity-adjusted life expectancy at 40 years of age by household income percentile, sex, and geographic area, and to evaluate factors associated with differences in life expectancy.
Why do ineffective treatments seem helpful? A brief review
After any therapy, when symptoms improve, healthcare providers (and patients) are tempted to award credit to treatment. Over time, a particular treatment can seem so undeniably helpful that scientific verification of efficacy is judged an ...
Statistical pitfalls of personalized medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07535-2
Revisiting the roles of protein synthesis during skeletal muscle hypertrophy induced by exercise
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpregu.00162.2019?journalCode=ajpregu
“The ‘Catch it Early’ bandwagon: do the media overhype medical testing for healthy people?”
https://croakey.org/the-catch-it-early-bandwagon-do-the-media-overhype-medical-testing-for-healthy-people/
“Overtraining in Resistance Exercise: An Exploratory Systematic Review and Methodological Appraisal of the Literature”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-019-01242-2
“Reviews may overestimate the effectiveness of medicines for back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895435619308418
“Protein Intake Greater than the RDA Differentially Influences Whole-Body Lean Mass Responses to Purposeful Catabolic and Anabolic Stressors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31794597
"The gene-based hack that is revolutionizing epidemiology” (Mendelian Randomization)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03754-3
The Concept of Sport Sampling Versus Sport Specialization: Preventing Youth Athlete Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
The Impact of Diet on Lipids
Our best weapons against cancer are not magic bullets
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00116-2
Exercise and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Case Series with One-Year Follow-Up.
Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter
This study uses systematic reviews, interviews, and an expert consensus process to identify practices that promote clinician presence and connection during patient visits: preparation and listening with intent, agreeing on what matters most,...
Patrick Mahomes became the NFL’s best quarterback by refusing to specialize in football
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/01/30/patrick-mahomes-became-nfls-best-quarterback-by-refusing-specialize-football/?fbclid=IwAR0bi6afJV0EQiseadeH4jodVqC8dL_i1sEeRiGGRVCDrG2xrzY31ZE7RAI&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
"Mahomes grew up in an age of early specialization, a time when quarterback gurus and hitting coaches and shot doctors and year-round travel teams have overtaken youth sports. And yet he developed into one of the greatest football forces on the planet as an athletic generalist.
He used his developmental years to cultivate a broad spectrum of tangible and intangible athletic capabilities. He gained a profound, intrinsic sense of how to wield his body in competition. He learned how to be the best quarterback by not playing quarterback.”
The Unaware Physician’s Role in Perpetuating Somatic Symptom Disorder
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…stract/2755837
“Nutrition and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”
https://www.gastro.theclinics.com/ar…068-8/fulltext
“Avoidance and its bi-directional relationship with conditioned fear: Mechanisms, moderators, and clinical implications”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc…05796720300012
Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/…osis-australia
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“Potential Consequences of Changing Disease Classifications”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…rticle/2761045
“Should ‘broken’ genes be fixed? My daughter changed the way I think about that question”
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/21/…that-question/
"She wanted a ‘freebirth’ with no doctors. Online groups convinced her it would be OK.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news…er-it-n1140096
“Successful weight loss maintenance: A systematic review of weight control registries”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…1111/obr.13003
“Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0310-7
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Thursday reading/listening
“How the Pandemic Will End”
“Association of Daily Step Count and Step Intensity With Mortality Among US Adults”
“Cor-Kinetic podcast Ep 2 - Austin Baraki on exercise & lower back pain”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cor-kinetic-podcast-ep-2-austin-baraki-on-exercise/id1501355236?i=1000469236758
“COVID-19, Hydroxychloroquine, and the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine”
There is limited existing evidence to support the common assumption that strenuous endurance exercise bouts impair immune competency
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1744666X.2019.1548933
Primary care for low back pain: we don’t know the half of it
April 2020 - Volume 161 - Issue 4 : PAIN . 1.aspx
BBM Podcast episode # 93: Sleep
The Importance of Addressing Advance Care Planning and Decisions About Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders During Novel Coronavirus 2019
“‘There is no absolute truth’: an infectious disease expert on Covid-19, misinformation and ‘bullshit’”
“Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized”
Scientific consensus is important, but it isn't uncommon when some of the most important voices turn out to be those of independent thinkers whose views were initially doubted.
Est. reading time: 7 minutes
“Do the anatomical and physiological properties of a muscle determine its adaptive response to different loading protocols?”
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.14814/phy2.14427
“Recent advances in understanding resistance exercise training-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy in humans”
Read the latest article version by Sophie Joanisse, Changhyun Lim, James McKendry, Jonathan C. Mcleod, Tanner Stokes, Stuart M. Phillips, at F1000Research.
“Comparison of a Pain Tolerability Question With the Numeric Rating Scale for Assessment of Self-reported Chronic Pain”
"Rethinking Proximity to Failure for Strength Gains”
“Symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse in women who lift heavy weights for exercise: a cross-sectional survey”
https://rdcu.be/b5Epw
“Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Youth: An Important Marker of Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association”
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000866
“Optimizing Adult Protein Intake During Catabolic Health Conditions”
https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/11/4/S1058/587118
“Identifying the Structural Adaptations that Drive the Mechanical Load-Induced Growth of Skeletal Muscle: A Scoping Review”
Weekend Reading / Listening
Recommended Podcast: “How beliefs influence pain with Dr Sam Bunzli, PhD”
https://bodylogic.physio/podcast/episode-10-how-beliefs-influence-pain-with-dr-sam-bunzli-phd/
Randomized Trials Versus Common Sense and Clinical Observation
https://www.onlinejacc.org/content/76/5/580
How State of the Art is the JACC Review [on Saturated Fat]?
https://www.alineanutrition.com/2020/07/28/how-state-of-the-art-is-the-jacc-review/
Dose-Response Effects of Exercise on Glucose-Lowering Medications for Type 2 Diabetes
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)30798-0/fulltext
Individuals with Back and Neck Pain on Medical Forums: What do They Mention? What Do They Fear?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejp.1639
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