AISTS Sport Medicine Podcasts

Weight cutting is a very common practice in contact sports. It is the practice of rapidly losing weight to fit in a certain weight category before a fight. What does science have to say about this? Is there a safe way to do it? What does the research show? Dimitrios Balomenos and Arthur Vignier from the 2018 Class have an interesting argument about this in this months' AISTS podcast. Listen and join the conversation in the comments.

Doping scandals threaten the Olympic Movement, and the public, even some athletes and sports organisations, have lost faith in the anti-doping system. How can the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) help with this? How can it be further improved? What does the future look like for anti-doping? This month's AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast with Thomas Roos and Andrei Krasilnikau attempts to answer these questions.

This month’s AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast talks about beer as a recovery drink. It is very common to go out for a beer after a team or group sports practice or game. But, does having a beer after a workout affect recovery? Is beer different to other kinds of alcohol? Listen to Melissa Drake and Santiago Peña, Class of 2018 to find out if there is a good way to have a beer after sports. Cheers!

This month’s AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast will be talking about nutrition, specifically whether it is possible for vegans to achieve the same performance level in sport as omnivores. Which kind of protein? Supplements? What else to do? Listen to know which are the main things to consider before going vegan as an athlete.

This month's AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast will be talking about marathon running. The science says you shouldn’t run a marathon but AISTS participants, Michael Collins & Olivia Dilorati - Class of 2018, say you should. Who is right? Find out if you should run that next 42km race.

This month's AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast will be talking about one of the most asked questions by most physically active people - do we really need to stretch before and after exercise? Mansur Alacam and Sameer Janmohamed, Class of 2018, are focusing on stretching. They pose the question, which type of stretching is best to use before and after exercising - static or dynamic? Find out what the latest research findings are and also hear from a professional athlete and sports scientist Thomas Roos on his opinion on what is best. Listen to this month's podcast to know what you should be doing when we heading out for your next jog or training session at the gym.

This month's AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast will be looking at injuries from a different angle - a psychological point of view. Most of the time, when we think about an athlete’s physical injury, we tend to assume that the cause of this injury is related to a physical factor. Did the athlete forget to warm-up? Is it the type of training? What type of recovery methods are being used? But, what if in some cases, psychological factors are at the source of physical injuries? What if stress factors have an impact on an athlete’s physical health? Andreas Blattner and Rita Pivoriunaite, Class of 2018, look into these issues and provide solutions with an interview with Swiss professional tennis player and former world # 9 on the WTA tour, Timea Bacsinszky.

This months AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast will be talking about one of the most controversial topics in sport at the moment - androgen levels in female athletes. Tina Sharma and Goran Miletic recorded this podcast in the summer last year and have given the science behind the controversial topic of Caster Semenya. They also have interviewed Dr Camporesi who is the Director of the MSc Programme in Bio Ethics & Society at King’s College, London. Get the facts about this topic with this month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast.

This month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast, presented by Ayesha Talpade and Pablo Rosetti discusses the legal, medical and ethical issues surrounding the Sharapova doping case. On March 06, 2016 Sharapova was informed by the International Tennis Federation that the ‘A’ sample collected from her at the Australian Open in January had tested positive for the presence of the banned substance. Find out more on what happened with this and get all the facts with this months AISTS Sports Medicine podcast.

This month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast, presented by Gustavo Garrido and Zhen Ma looks more in-depth into the effects of repeated head traumas with NLF players. The studies about the effects of repeated head trauma on American football players are rather new. A study completed in 2007 concluded that “professional football players with a history of three of more concussions are in a greater risk for having depressive episodes later in life compared with those players with no history of concussions.” This podcast will take a deep dive into this research and more and also speak more on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Find out more with this month's latest AISTS Sports Medicine podcast.