You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letter
Muscle dysmorphia in weightlifters
  1. B Chung
  1. Sport Medicine Centre, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; bchung@ucalgary.ca

    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.37.3.280-a

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

      Request Permissions

      If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

      I would like to raise a concern with regard to the article “Muscle dysmorphia: a new syndrome in weightlifters” by Choi et al.1 Although chronic obsessive behaviour related to fitness and weightlifting is genuinely a concern for both sexes, Choi et al fail, in my opinion, to present a valid argument for the construction of “muscle dysmorphia” as being a separate and distinct subcategory of body dysmorphic disorder. Inclusion …

      View Full Text