Principles That Will Improve Your Physical Examination

Ten essential BJSM podcasts that will improve your practice.

1. DIAGNOSING AND TREATING ACUTE HAMSTRING INJURIES In BJSM’s all-time favourite podcast, Dutch sports physician Robert-Jan de Vos has Guustaaf Reurink explain his 2014 NEJM paper on the role of platelet-rich plasma in acute hamstring injuries (https://goo.gl/ oGVjA8). They also discuss the value of clinical tests and MRI in acute hamstring injuries, and whether they can predict return to play ...

5 questions to ask that will improve patient access, revenue.

Will People Like Your Image?

The wide distribution of digital devices as well as cheap storage allow us to take series of photos making sure not to miss any specific beautiful moment. Thereby, the huge and constantly growing image assembly makes it quite timeconsuming to manually pick the best shots afterwards. Even more challenging, finding the most aesthetically pleasing images that might also be worth sharing is a large...

Will the history and physical examination help establish that irritable bowel syndrome is causing this patient's lower gastrointestinal tract symptoms?

CONTEXT Many individuals experience lower gastrointestinal tract symptoms, most commonly attributable to functional conditions. These individuals are frequently diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) based on their symptoms; however, some may require additional testing or referral to specialists before this diagnosis is made. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the literature of the acc...

My Agent Will Call Your Agent... But Will It Respond?

As Web based E-commerce and component software become more real, interest in software agents has increased. Agents can be viewed as specialized distributed components, offering greater flexibility than traditional components when developing certain applications. Different kinds of agents have different amounts of personality, mobility, interaction, collaboration, persistence and intelligence. T...