For several years the USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee has been arranging presentations that are given during national championship meets. Leading professionals provide information on various sports science and medicine topics.
The committee is interested in finding out what medical and scientific topics related to swimming, training, and health you are interested in hearing about.
Please post your requests and we will design upcoming presentations around the most popular topics.
Thanks for your input.
Jane Moore, MD
Chair, USMS Sports Medicine and Science Committee
Q raises an interesting point. Perhaps you could video tape the presentation and put it up in segments on YouTube.
There are a ton of topics that I would be interested in hearing about. For example, the latest thinking on swimmers shoulder, ways to prevent, ways to treat, nitroglycerine patches vs. anti-inflamatories. Ditto for any other common swimming overuse injuries, from breaststrokers knee to lower back pain.
Maybe something on nutrition and timing thereof. When I interviewed Dara Torres for an article, she was taking all kinds of amino acids and "greens" type supplements that she swore by. Then you hear about great distance runners who basically live on Twinkies. Is "optimal" nutrition just a way of selling expensive products, with most of the benefit being a placebo effect? Or have nutritional interventions been proven in trials to make a difference? (We all remember how much Vitamin E was touted, only to find out it does nothing for your heart and may actually increase cancer rates slightly.)
Finally, how about something on the physiology of aging endurance and sprint capacity--and anything proven to slow down the deterioration (or perhaps even override it?) This might not be of tremendous interest to the 40 year old and younger swimmers, but it becomes of increasing interest in later age groups.
Q raises an interesting point. Perhaps you could video tape the presentation and put it up in segments on YouTube.
There are a ton of topics that I would be interested in hearing about. For example, the latest thinking on swimmers shoulder, ways to prevent, ways to treat, nitroglycerine patches vs. anti-inflamatories. Ditto for any other common swimming overuse injuries, from breaststrokers knee to lower back pain.
Maybe something on nutrition and timing thereof. When I interviewed Dara Torres for an article, she was taking all kinds of amino acids and "greens" type supplements that she swore by. Then you hear about great distance runners who basically live on Twinkies. Is "optimal" nutrition just a way of selling expensive products, with most of the benefit being a placebo effect? Or have nutritional interventions been proven in trials to make a difference? (We all remember how much Vitamin E was touted, only to find out it does nothing for your heart and may actually increase cancer rates slightly.)
Finally, how about something on the physiology of aging endurance and sprint capacity--and anything proven to slow down the deterioration (or perhaps even override it?) This might not be of tremendous interest to the 40 year old and younger swimmers, but it becomes of increasing interest in later age groups.
