British Journal of Sports Medicine

(BJSM) is the leading, peer-reviewed journal in sports medicine, with additional multimedia resources.

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British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.

British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) is a multimedia portal for authoritative original research, systematic reviews, consensus statements and debate in sport and exercise medicine (SEM). We define sport and exercise medicine broadly.
BJSM’s web, print, video and audio material serves the international sport and exercise medicine community which includes 25 clinical societies who have over 13,000 members.
You can access BJSM on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube as well as via our podcasts, Stitcher and blog.

BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine is a companion journal to the British Journal of Sports Medicine

Meet the new Editors! For more information, please visit the landing page>>

BMJ and BJSM are fully committed to ensure best practice in publication ethics. Please see our joint statement for further information >>

News: The Faculty and BASEM are continuing to progress with the reformation of the new college. The next phase of this process involves the implementation of a new steering group, with the first step to appoint an independent chair.
Please see here to find out about the role >>

Current Issue

Topical Issues

a female athlete teeing off in a golf competition

#GolfMedicine

A collection of key resources, providing an overview of the current medical issues and research landscape in #GolfMedicine

#HipAndGroinPain

a focus on the latest multidisciplinary research in hip and groin pathology

#SportsEquity

A global SEM team tackles some of sport’s toughest topics: Abuse, Racism, Ableism, Sexism, and Transphobia

#FemaleAthleteHealth

“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” – answering the call for an increased focus on female-specific SEM research

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Latest Articles

Consensus statement:

ICON 2023: International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium Consensus - the core outcome set for Achilles tendinopathy (COS-AT) using a systematic review and a Delphi study of professional participants and patients

13 September 2024

Systematic review:

High-intensity interval training for cardiometabolic health in adults with metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

10 September 2024

Original research:

High-intensity interval training improves cardiovascular and physical health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

10 September 2024

Systematic review:

Associations of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality: an individual participant data meta-analysis

10 September 2024

Original research:

10 September 2024

Featured Video

Motor retraining by real-time sonic feedback: understanding strategies of low impact running (PhD Academy Award)

20 June 2024

To cite: Van den Berghe P. Motor retraining by real-time sonic feedback: understanding strategies of low impact running (PhD Academy Award). British Journal of Sports Medicine 2022;56:1196-1197. Read the full article here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-105750 Video abstract complementing the PhD Academy Award article “Motor retraining by real-time sonic feedback: understanding strategies of low impact running”. The aims of this PhD thesis were to (1) develop, (2) to validate a wearable system for impact reduction through the use of real-time, music-based biofeedback, (3) to evaluate its effectiveness in a gait retraining context, and to gain insight into possible strategies for low impact running.

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