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This Week’s Editor’s Choice dives into pain, impairment, and quality of life in retired pro rugby players. A must-read, shorturl.at/pu5ew! #SportsMedicine #RugbyResearch #SASMA #EditorsChoice #SportsScience Sharief Hendricks 🇿🇦 ChristaJvRensburg

Almost time to travel once more to 🇿🇦 for SASMA conference with fully packed week: contributions on heat, mental health screening and long-term health in football and beyond. Looking forward to all other contributions and sessions as well‼️ sasma2024.co.za

New paper: "Don’t forget to mind the mind: a prospective cohort study over 12 months on mental health symptoms in active professional male footballer" by #sportsdoc ChristaJvRensburg Thor Einar Andersen @KerkhoffsG FIFPRO SportsMedUP ACHSS Amsterdam UMC …sportsscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Workshop 2: The Pre-Conference Course for MSc/PhD students & early career researchers is in full swing! Session 1, led by Prof Christa Janse van Rensburg, covers the steps to conduct a systematic review. 🔍📚 #SASMAConference2024 #EarlyCareerResearchers #HowToWriteRight

The poster session during lunch at #SASMAConference2024 showcased some awesome research! 🔬 Great to see innovative studies and connect with fellow attendees 🙌🏻

South African Delegation representing #IOCATPC2024 Wayne Derman ChristaJvRensburg

🤖AI tools for biomechanical analysis: be optimistic about the potential but maintain healthy skepticism in reviewing their performance. 🧐I hope this article helps practitioners to match their needs and resources with available products and methods.

Bringing 💤 to Arabic speaking athletes 🤗. Publication expertly led by Alia Alghwiri, PT, PhD and co-authored by David Stevens ChristaJvRensburg abdulazizfarooq Dachraoui Emna and Louis Holtzhausen rdcu.be/d2Is4

If you know, you know. Let’s go! 🙌🏻

New paper: "Gynaecological Health Patterns and Motherhood Experiences of Female Professional Football Players" by Maki Ramagole ChristaJvRensburg charlotte cowie Ritan Mehta Babette Pluim @KerkhoffsG FIFPRO SportsMedUP ACHSS Amsterdam UMC The Drake Foundation James Drake

South African Athletes, We Need You! Mental health is just as crucial as physical health! Help us understand mental health symptoms in SA athletes by taking our confidential survey🔗 pretoria.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7P… #MentalHealthMatters #AthleteWellbeing #SportsMedicine

📢 South African amateur and elite athletes, we need YOUR help! Help us better understand mental health symptoms in athletes by completing a short, anonymous survey. 🔗 Participate here: pretoria.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7P… Let’s break the stigma together! #MentalHealth #athletes

Traveling to World Players Association Player Health and Safety Summit (Spain), advocating for an holistic approach to load: cognitive, emotional and psychological demands put on players essential to consider ! FIFPRO ACES_Amsterdam SportsMedUP University of Pretoria Amsterdam UMC ACHSS

Looking forward to spend the next days in Lugano 🇨🇭 at UEFA Medical Symposium, speaking about mental health in professional football and discussing postpartum and gynecological health in women players. FIFPRO ACES_Amsterdam SportsMedUP University of Pretoria Amsterdam UMC ACHSS

New paper: "Sleep interventions in elite sport – a systematic review" by Sharaisha Bilgoe Steve den Hollander ChristaJvRensburg @KerkhoffsG FIFPRO SportsMedUP ACHSS Amsterdam UMC SA J Sports Medicine ACES_Amsterdam journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/sajs…

World Congress of Tennis Medicine & Science 2025 during which I open the mental health session with activities initiated in elite sports to promote/protect the athletes’ mental health 🎾‼️ stmswc25.com FIFPRO ACES_Amsterdam SportsMedUP University of Pretoria ACHSS

New paper "Shoulder and knee surgery double odds of osteoarthritis in retired professional rugby players" Johan le Roux ChristaJvRensburg @KerkhoffsG Simon Kemp Mike Lambert Clint Readhead Keith Stokes Wayne Viljoen SportsMedUP ACES_Amsterdam jsams.org/article/S1440-…

Big news this week! 🚨 Did you know shoulder and knee surgeries can double the risk of osteoarthritis in retired pro rugby players? 🏉💔 Dive into details with this weeks Editor's Choice here: rebrand.ly/jx095lx #SASMA #EditorsChoice Sharief Hendricks 🇿🇦 ChristaJvRensburg

The A-team University of Pretoria #sportsmedicine delivering gold to our Msc 1st and 2nd years with support from several colleagues