Note from Editor-in-Chief William O. Roberts
This issue corresponds with the start of football preseason for high school, college, and the NFL. The editorial for this issue addressing preseason conditioning is titled “NCAA football and Conditioning Drills: A Deadly Combination for a Decade” by Chris McGrew, MD, outlines the dark side of preseason and risk for players. Jim Macintyre, MD, FACSM, a long time fellow of the college and frequent Annual Meeting contributor, is featured in the Clinician Profile. Randy Eichner, MD, FACSM, discusses the placebo effect in Pearls & Pitfalls. Our Invited Commentary titled “New Innovations in Sports Medicine: Good for the Patient or Good for the Pocketbook?” by Robert J. Johnson, MD, FACSM, looks at the ethics of incorporating new technology into daily practice.
The featured sections in this issue are Exercise is Medicine (EIM) and Nutrition & Ergogenic Aids, both topics that require answers for our patients nearly every day. From the history of exercise is medicine to its effects on mental health and cardiac status to resistance training as a public health tool, the EIM section will help your daily practice. Vitamin D deficiency affects athletes as well as non-athletes and an approach to the problem will benefit all your patients. Understanding the vegan diet will help your patients avoid energy deficits from the calorie demands of training. Fueling the skeletal muscle, fructose in the diet, and the effects of growth hormone on performance also are addressed.
In closing, I extend my best wishes to my good friend, friend of the College, and Web Alert editor for Current Sports Medicine Reports, Bill Dexter, MD, FACSM, who was involved in a bike-truck accident on July 4th. He will have a long road to recovery and we at the journal wish him a rapid return to full health. I am sure he will live his mantra of exercise is medicine.
Cheers,
Bill
William O. Roberts, MD, MS, FACSM
Editor-in-Chief