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🎙️Great to speak with @thedancept about the continued evolution of dance medicine & science🩰🎪🕺🎺 & the ongoing global efforts to raise standards in the clinical management of performing artists 📝📈Ties in well with the upcoming @physiosinsport series⬇️ twitter.com/thedancept/sta…

Now avaiable ahead of print: Appearance Pressure, Body Image, and Nutrition Practices in Youth Athletes: Implications for Performance, by Christine Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen, and Therese Fostervold Mathisen. doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.…

In human performance, “hero moves” occur when a practitioner attempts to become indispensable to an athlete rather than contributing as part of an organized multidisciplinary team. Even when an athlete requests that one practitioner handle everything, it is not realistic or professionally responsible for one person to become the entire performance system. The practitioner’s responsibility is to explain how support will be structured, who will be involved, how information will be shared, and how decisions will be made in the athlete’s best interest. King et al. (2024) support this position by showing that effective high performance practice depends on multidisciplinary teams that integrate decision making and problem solving, collaboration and knowledge sharing, interpersonal skills, leadership, and team dynamics. Their findings suggest that cognitive diversity, role clarity, shared understanding, psychological safety, and adaptability are critical to effective team function. When one practitioner insists on doing everything, the process can shift from athlete centered support to practitioner centered control. That creates risk because the athlete may become dependent on one person’s interpretation, while the team loses the benefit of broader expertise, shared decision making, and coordinated problem solving. In this sense, the “hero practitioner” may appear committed, but the approach can undermine the structure required for responsible human performance support. The more high profile situation, the more the risk and it knows settings. The key is getting the right people who are team focused.

#MDPIsports Call for Paper 📢 Special Issue: Monitoring Hematological and Biochemical Markers in Exercise Programs: From Health Optimization to Performance Enhancement Deadline: 30 November 2026 brnw.ch/21x2w44

“Doping in recreational sports” by Pavel Dietz link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Mental health & emotional wellness will define our nation. My views.

One of the most important ideas in skill acquisition is that skillful performance is not about repeating the exact same movement but adjusting your actions to achieve a consistent outcome under changing conditions. This is the idea behind “repetition without repetition.” The performance environment is dynamic and constantly changing. The speed of the ball changes, defenders move differently and space opens and closes. Skilled players adapt their movements to the situation in front of them rather than reproducing one “perfect” technique. This is why repeating the same drill in identical conditions has limitations. Players may improve the ‘skill’ in that drill, but struggle to adapt it when the game becomes more dynamic and unpredictable. Instead, we want practice tasks that encourage players to solve the same problem in slightly different ways. Over time, this helps players build a more adaptable and functional movement toolbox that transfers more effectively to the game.

When does antiviral defense become neuronal injury? We’re excited to share our latest work uncovering neuronal STAT1 as a molecular phase switch from protective antiviral defense to synaptopathy in encephalitis. @TrendsNeuro @merkler_lab cell.com/trends/neurosc…

New episode of Leaders Under Fire in Sports is live 🎙️ A conversation on pressure, leadership, accountability, and what defines high performance culture behind the scenes. Watch here: cultureinsports.com/shows/leaders-…

“If you treasure your attention, and then use it to do hard things, with other people, in real life,” @JonHaidt tells the class of 2026, “your life is going to be amazing.” Read his full commencement address here: theatln.tc/JGwl8PwZ

You can feel when your thinking is slightly off before anyone else notices it. That is not stress. That is your prefrontal cortex detecting reduced efficiency under metabolic strain. The brain uses enormous amounts of energy to sustain decision-making, emotional regulation, and pattern recognition. When sleep quality declines, inflammatory signalling rises and executive function weakens first. Most people call this fatigue. High performers experience it as a slower processing speed, weaker judgment, and diminished precision under pressure. The dangerous part is that these shifts often appear years before clinical symptoms. Your brain detects the decline long before medicine does.

Did you know presenters can apply for funding for CSP Annual Conference too? Find out more and apply today csp.org.uk/conference #Physio26

Most people are taking melatonin wrong. It is not really a sleeping pill. It is a circadian timing signal. For delayed sleep schedules, the goal is to shift the body clock earlier, and that often means taking it up to ~5 hours before bed, not right at bedtime.

Chronic stress dysrupts HPA axis → changes in speech: ↓ fluency, fragmentation, more “I/me/my” (~30-50%↑ in some studies), ↑ negative words. Linguistic patterns as stress biomarkers. But safe communication (therapy, expressive writing) may regulate stress.

Our new paper is now published in @MSKPhysioJnl: “Cultural sensitive self-management practice and major barriers within the biopsychosocial model to improve outcomes of people living with chronic musculoskeletal conditions.”

Turns out, dressing the part might change how you think. Wearing a lab coat improved attention… but only when people believed it was a doctor’s coat, not a painter’s coat. Clothes are not just style, they are cues for your brain.

A new long COVID study found that standard autoimmune blood tests often looked normal. But when researchers tested patients blood directly against heart and blood vessel tissue, they found persistent immune reactivity - especially involving vascular tissue.🧵

🦶 Midtarsal locking — does it really happen? The idea that calcaneal inversion “locks” the midfoot during push-off is widely taught… but not well supported by evidence. Newer models offer a more accurate view of foot function. 📖 Read more: dralisongrimaldi.com/blog/foot-func…

Calls for Reformer Pilates regulation amid boom bbc.in/4cOH576 #bbcberkshire

Experts reach consensus to rename polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), better reflecting the condition’s full health impacts. Find out more 👉 spkl.io/6011ACDWW @ESEndocrinology #ECE2026

This morning on The Science and Experience of Energy, we write about how much energy we might waste stressing out. Nothing is free in biology. And all aspects of the stress response consume energy. But how much exactly? It's hard to answer that question at the scale of a whole human, so Natalia Bobba-Alves teamed up with @sturm_gav and his Cellular Lifespan Study to examine this question at the cellular level. Short answer: it's a lot. Join us on TSEEnergy: open.substack.com/pub/tseenergy/…