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Don’t get stuck in the mud: keep climbing for a better view of sport and exercise medicine
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  1. Hilde Moseby Berge
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hilde Moseby Berge, Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo 0806, Norway; HildeMoseby.Berge{at}olympiatoppen.no

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099844

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    Norway is well known for its spectacular fjords and snow-topped mountains, but reaching the summit can be very hard work. However, once you succeed, you are rewarded with fantastic views, something that we should also strive for in sport and exercise medicine, by improving the care we offer to our athletes. The Via Ferrata may be optimal for some, while gentler routes will suit others, but we should not get stuck in the mud while we strive to reach our ultimate goal.

    This issue of BJSM was assembled by the Norwegian Sports Medicine and Sports Physiotherapy communities; the 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in the Unesco World Heritage City of Bergen. 

    One year ago, BJSM launched a new series of educational editorials (see page 1159), aimed at helping their readers to choose the best clinical pathways. The message was simply ‘methods matter’, as described in several papers in this issue. In Winters’ PhD Academy Award thesis (see page 1213), two physicians made the same diagnosis independent of each other, while applying the same decision protocol for medial tibial stress syndrome. In contrast, the systematic review (see page 1215) studying the effectiveness of physiotherapy, for pelvic and back pain after pregnancy, was unable to provide any conclusive answers, because all six studies used different methodology.

    Sticking with the theme of evidence-based medicine, the study of rehabilitation of patients following ACL reconstruction (see …

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