Podcasts

Oral health and performance in football

By: DR SAUL KONVISER

Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, Saul is a General Dentist with a special interest in the area of Sports Dentistry, working to promote oral health amongst the sporting community. He qualified with his Dental degree from Kings College London Dental Institute but has previously completed a bachelor’s degree in…
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What is Player Care?

By: HUGO SCHECKTER – FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR, THE PLAYER CARE GROUP

Hugo started The Player Care Group after leaving West Ham United FC, where he was Head of Player Care from 2018 to the end of 2020. He was brought in by the Hammers to create the Player Care department from scratch, inheriting a difficult situation and turning it into a smoothly…
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Hip and Groin Rehabilitation

By: ENDA KING

Enda King PhD MSc combines his roles as a sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and educator through his work with individual athletes and elite teams across a spectrum of sports and disciplines. Currently, he is Head of Performance Rehabilitation with Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin, Ireland and traveling internationally…
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Importance of Sleep for Elite Footballers

By: ANNA WEST

Anna West is a Sleep, Recovery and Well-Being Specialist working with Brentford FC and Founder of Sleep2Perform, a high-performance consultancy who specialise in sleep and recovery. Sleep2Perform website: https://www.sleep2perform.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-west-1baa972/ Twitter: Anna S.V. West @AnnaSVWest https://twitter.com/annasvwest?lang=en…
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Diagnosis of concussion in sport: Saliva as an objective marker

By: DR PATRICK O’HALLORAN – SPORT AND EXERCISE MEDICINE REGISTRAR

Dr Patrick O’Halloran is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Registrar in the West Midlands. He is the current matchday Doctor with Worcester Warriors as well as the England Women’s Rugby Pathway Doctor.  Patrick is also a member of the NICE Head Injury Guideline update committee. As part of his work on…
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GETTING THIS PRESEASON RIGHT

By: REST VS REPS

Much has been made of the fitness issues that have plagued the footballing world for the last year. Stunted calendars, disrupted schedules and a lack of a proper preseason underpinned the quality and consistency of player performance in 2020/21. In what will be a return to normality for scheduling, how…
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The Psychology of Success

By: PAUL MCVEIGH – EXPERT IN ELITE PERFORMANCE

For over 25 years, Paul McVeigh has been an elite performer in two of the most competitive industries on the planet; elite sport and performance psychology. As a Premier League and International football player for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Northern Ireland, Paul competed with and against the best players…
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Why is there a lack of women working in men’s football?

By: RACHEL DAVIS, HEAD OF MEDICAL, HARROGATE TOWN FC

Rachel Davis has a BSc Degree in Sport and Exercise Therapy and an MSc in Physiotherapy from Leeds Beckett University. She started her career in non-league football working for Wakefield FC and Harrogate Railway FC before securing a position within the Leeds United FC Academy, working with the U9-U16. …
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BRINGING WELL-BEING INTO THE PERFORMANCE PICTURE

By: SARAH MURRAY, SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION FC

Sarah is currently women’s senior psychologist at Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club working with the first team in the WSL top tier. Having joined BHAFC in 2013 she was tasked with setting up performance psychology across the whole club, performance psychology is integrated fully from the bottom up and…
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WHO HAS THE LAST WORD?

By: Dr Zaf Iqbal (Head of Medical – Crystal Palace FC), Dr Imtiaz Ahmad (Head of Medical – QPR FC), David Fevre (Fevre Consultancy, formerly Manchester United FC & Blackburn Rovers FC) Chaired by Dr Andrew Shafik (Junior Doctor, BJSM Reviewer, Editorial Board Member at FMPA)

Manager, Doctor, Physio, Performance Manager, Nutritionist, Player. Nowadays, all are involved in the maintenance and tuning of a high performance athletic machine. But who has priority in decision making? And who should? Have decision making structures been updated to take account of the new realities of dealing with elite sportsmen…
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HIGH PERFORMANCE AND MEDICINE & THE VISA SECOND HALF PROGRAMME

By: KAREN CARNEY, RETIRED FOOTBALLER & EX-OLYMPIAN

Karen Carney is a retired footballer and ex-Olympian who played for Birmingham City/Arsenal/Chicago Red Stars/Chelsea/ over 100 caps for England and Team GB. Karen is a current commentator and pundit at the BBC and BT Sport where she provides expert analysis on various games. She is highly skilled in Sports…
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The benefits and challenges of conducting research within professional sport and how to feed back scientific investigations.

By: DR WILL ABBOTT, ACADEMY PERFORMANCE MANAGER AT BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION FOOTBALL CLUB.

Will is the Academy Performance Manager at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club having previously gained experience working as a strength & conditioning and sport science practitioner at the club. Will’s current role is to lead a team of S&C, sport science, nutrition and medical practitioners towards achieving a common…
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PITCHSIDE IMMEDIATE CARE, FOOTBALL MEDICINE PATIENT CARE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN COVID-19

By: DR JONNY GORDON, EMERGENCY MEDICINE CONSULTANT & FIRST TEAM DOCTOR, MEN’S SCOTLAND NATIONAL FOOTBALL SQUAD

Jonny is as an Emergency Medicine Consultant in Glasgow and is the first team doctor to the men’s Scotland national football squad. He has also been the first team doctor at Celtic FC and was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2007 Jonny founded…
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Keeping non-starting players fit in professional football

By: DR LIAM ANDERSON, HEAD OF SPORTS SCIENCE & MEDICINE, CREWE ALEXANDRA FC

Interviewed by Dr Andrew Shafik, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Northern Deanery, BJSM reviewer and Editorial Board Member at FMPA’s publication ‘football medicine & performance”. Useful links https://twitter.com/liam_anderson5?lang=en-gb  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Liam_Anderson3  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26915393/ NEW (October 2020): Article published…
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Mental health of players during ‘return to football’

By: DR VINCENT GOUTTEBARGE, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AT FIFPRO

Interviewed by Dr Andrew Shafik, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Northern Deanery, BJSM reviewer and Editorial Board Member at FMPA’s publication ‘football medicine & performance’ We have added some useful links to support this podcast: https://www.drakefoundation.org/about-us/ https://www.fifpro.org/en/health/coronavirus-covid-19-page/coronavirus-shutdown-sharp-rise-in-players-reporting-depression-symptoms https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000680 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667 NEW RESEARCH (October 2020)  …
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MARCH 2020

By: Gary Bloom

FMPA CEO, Eamonn Salmon, talks to Clinical Sports Psychotherapist Gary Bloom about the role of the Clinical Sports Psychotherapist, his work at Oxford United and the upturn in referrals.
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APRIL 2019

By: Mike Clegg

The Football Medicine & Performance (FMPA) CEO, Eamonn Salmon, talks about the history of the FMPA with Mike Clegg. From inception to the present day we hear from Eamonn on why the FMPA was set up for all medicine and performance disciplines within professional football, what the purpose is and what the aims…
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