AISTS Sport Medicine Podcasts

This month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast Vineet Basu and Corentin Caporal explore the topic of PRP ,Platelet Rich Plasma, and try to answer the question “Is PRP actual science or relief from belief?” During the past several years, much has been written about a preparation called platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and its potential effectiveness in the treatment of injuries. This podcast takes a closer look at human blood and provides us with easy to understand information about the use of PRP as a healing agent. To find out why athletes such as Tiger Woods and tennis star Rafael Nadal use PRP listen here.

In this month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast Kyrian Mello and Stefanie Krysiak explore some of the myths related to workouts and in particular that of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). They provide us with some great tips and advice and remind us to listen to your bodies. To find out what is the best measure of a good workout listen here.

Are you doing all you can to recover after a long ride or run? Listen to the latest AISTS Sports Medicine podcast from Geena Krueger and Gianluca de Cristofaro who delve into the topic of recovery and the best way to recover after exercise through proper nutrition and sleep.

In the lead up to the Rio Olympics, a lot of media attention was focused on a mysterious virus called Zika. There was a fear that the Olympics could cause a spread of the virus worldwide by all the participants and athletes attending the event hosted in the hot zone of the mosquito borne disease. Find out here what the Zika virus is and how many cases there were during the Olympics in Rio.

In this month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast we have Oladapo Ajayi and Otonye Iworima investigating the topic of exercise addiction. Former elite athlete, Otonye Iworima, a Nigerian triple jumper, who won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games provides us with the latest up to date research on the topic and discusses who is likely to become addicted to exercise and why it occurs. Find out now all the answers here.

In this month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast we have Alexandre Pernet and Silvia Bernhard looking into the impact a gluten free diet could have on someones physical performance. Gluten is a mixture of proteins found in wheat and related grains. Gluten is appreciated for its viscoelastic properties. It gives elasticity to dough, helping it to rise and keep its shape and often gives the final product a chewy texture. Gluten free diets have become a lot more popular recently, not just for Celiac Disease sufferers.

In this month's AISTS Sports Medicine podcast Joana Cal and Michael Broadley discuss Unexplained Underperformance Syndrome (UPS) in endurance athletes. Namely, what is it and why does it occur? To do this, they kick off with a short role-play to highlight symptoms of UPS before delivering more in-depth details on both the physiological manifestations and psychological aspects. From there, you can learn of how UPS differs from other forms of fatigue associated with endurance sport and how best to manage/heal from UPS.

This month’s podcast looks at why many athletes take a caffeine drink or drink coffee before they start a race or before their final sprint. It is not directly to stay awake, but rather the effects they are interested in are not so different from the effects you are looking for when you drink your morning coffee.

This month’s podcast looks at how psychological factor can influence injuries for top athletes. Alvaro Abati and Juan Scmitz will take you through the psychological factors that can impact the injuries of top athletes and the type of injuries that could be caused by them, and then analyse whether psychological factors can impact the healing process. They will provide practical solutions to help athletes recover faster from injuries and look at the use of motor imagery, which is the mental representation of an action without any actual movement. To find out more about this listen to the link below.

Discover the world of sports management through the AISTS Sports Medicine podcast, featuring interviews with leading experts, professionals and academics.

For 2017 the first AISTS Sports Medicine Podcast looks at the topic of "Is swimming in cold water good or bad for your health"? Christine Jennings, USA open water swimmer and Junjie Li dived into the latest research on 'cold water swimming', not just immersion, and tried to find out whether the sport is actually beneficial to our health or was it increasing the rate of health problems. Find out their results now.