How does something as obvious as this make it through a Nature family of journals' peer-review process?
Rod Whiteley
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Physiotherapist at Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital. I used to be a terrible baseball player, but my arm hurts now
Exploring your data before any analysis is such an important step to save lots of heartache later. Here's a free tool you might find useful: www.whiteley.work/research/eda/
At *least* 3x, up to 10x the cost of tickets to Qatar 2022, and accommodation starting at $80 per night. Reminder of how good the 2022 World Cup was for fans
Nice one from James Wild: 7 years of pro rugby injury data looking at associations between contact time/flight time, and stride length/stride rate during a 20m max accel. doi.org/10.1016/j.js...
Test-retest reliability is boring, but important to understand if differences between occasions are real or noise. Here's a free open-source app that will do a comprehensive reliability analysis for you: reliability-b5reo7jxacgvrabpbd2h3u.streamlit.app Upload your wide data, follow the prompts
Scientific journals "adding value" episode# 658,447. As an exercise I wondered what they (Springer in this case) would charge for a figure to be cited & reproduced for use in freely accessible professional development - for 4 years, they want $1600. I wonder how much the authors get?
The team at Sportfisio Suisse have put all the talks from their recent conference up on YouTube: youtube.com/@sportfisios... If you don't click that link, as HG would say, you're being a fool to yourself and a burden to others
All things bone stress injury in the latest Aspetar Journal here: journal.aspetar.com/archive/volu... As always, free, open access, no catches, no sign-up etc. One highlight for me is Evan Jeanguyot's Return to running after bone stress injury in runners: journal.aspetar.com/en/archive/v...
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing share.google/054wgu5Qw4E9... I'm looking at you, journals prioritising "punchy" titles and "sexy" findings
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
This feels to me a bit like the NRA's argument that the solution to school shootings is more guns in school. We're not going to fix the problems with scientific publishing by doubling down on the current system and pouring even more resources into it. We need to try something new.
My point 1 could "just" have been about cloning 101 patients to get statistical significance. But the WBC stuff makes me think the entire dataset is fake.
You may have seen reports about a paper claiming that "Stem cell therapy prevents heart attacks": bmj.altmetric.com/details/1830... If so, you might want to grab some popcorn: pubpeer.com/publications...
Report for: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PREVENT-TAHA8)
In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Team physicians from Africa: great opportunity here from the IOC - no costs - registration, travel, meals, & accommodation for 2 docs/country to this year's Advanced Teams Physicians' courses in Senegal. Please share far and wide (your national Olympic Committee has the details)
Trying to pool data from diagnostic studies means knowing the raw data, but that's not always given. This app lets you enter what is given, and it titerates through all possibilities to give you most likely candidates: whiteleyrod-confusionmatrixcalculator-app-rubass.streamlit.app Find the bugs!
I honestly thought that the analgaesia from BFR was placebo, so we did a sham-controlled crossover RCT, and seems there's something there: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... Probably not due to sensitisation-local or global When you need to do strength training but can't might be an option
Scientific journals adding value again, and making reviewers' lives easy - here we have 2 sets of line numbers, one of which is conveniently superimposed over the reference numbers, presumably to make it easier for me to figure these our while doing my review
🧪 New paper alert! We keep trying to understand muscle-tendon crosstalk. Here we determined whether exosomes could explain why serum after resistance exercise makes bigger stronger tendons. Contrary to our hypothesis, it is not exosomes. The search goes on. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exosome enriched serum enhances engineered ligament mechanics and collagen content with no additional benefit of resistance exercise
Following resistance exercise, systemic changes foster improved functionality of tendons and ligaments. Post-exercise, muscle tissue releases exosomes…
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Some experiments advance science. Others advance the reviewer’s sense of power. Guess which costs more. #FridayThoughts
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ALT: The Sopranos Tony Soprano GIF
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Spotted this guy eating his lunch while walking through downtown Kuala Lumpur today
Outstanding practical review of the recovery modalities available and more importantly, when to implement from Martin Buchheit in this morning's Aspetar Rehab CPD session
Finally in print physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... Time to rethink cold/ice after muscle injury - cold slows everything down, including healing. Reminder that ice for injury was built on very shaky foundations. Better strength after just 4 days, hot water also better for pain
In preparation for OSTRC 25th Anniversary, playing around thinking about the interaction of training types and parameters on different tissue types. Make an interactive app to explore here: tissueloadingsimulator-nqf3v5xzz3lysvz2wk365n.streamlit.app Feedback appreciated
Just got an advance print version of the next edition of the Aspetar Journal - Imaging in Sports Medicine targeted topic. Maybe the best issue we've done? All issues free, open access of course (journal.aspetar.com/en/home#!) If sports medicine imaging is your thing, do yourself a favour
