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Learn about NCSEM's efforts to advance sports and exercise medicine locally, focusing on research, clinical facilities, activities, programs, education, and knowledge translation.
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Supporting developments in local services – learning from the NCSEM Dr. Kristen Clements Senior Translational Scientist & NCSEM Consortium Manager
Our aims • Create an international centre of excellence for research in sport and exercise medicine • Accelerate the translation of research and basic science into new models of patient care • Provide a comprehensive clinical service including a state of the art diagnostics facility on Loughborough campus • Promote the take-up of exercise as a prescriptive medicine and as preventative therapy • Promote knowledge transfer and inform clinicians, allied healthcare professionals and deliverers of exercise
Clinical Facilities • 9 consulting rooms • 3T MRI scanner • Ultrasound • X-ray • Functional analysis rehabilitation lab • Computer assisted rehabilitation environment • DEXA scanner
Clinical Activity • We currently have 12 different clinics running from the NCSEM • NUH • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Profs Mark Batt & Nick Pierce) • Sports cardiology (Dr John Walsh) • Physiotherapy • Orthopaedics (Mr David Hahn, Mr John Geoghegan) • UHL • Sport and exercise medicine (Dr Patrick Wheeler, Dr Harj Singh, Dr Kim Gregory) • Cardiac exercise assessment / rehabilitation (Dr Sally Singh) • Pulmonary exercise rehabilitation (Dr Sally Singh) • UHL and NUH Radiology • MRI diagnostics • NUH X-ray • NHFT • Let’s talk wellbeing • EMRAD – core team
Clinical PhDs • 6 clinical PhDs • PA and respiratory health • Chronic tendinopathy • Changes in structural, functional and hormonal properties of the heart as a result of a program of intra-dialytic cycling • Role of endothelial cells in vascular adaptation • Tailored exercise therapy for COPD • Can light exercise reduce sedentary behaviour among cancer patients
Education • MSc Exercise as Medicine • MSc Musculoskeletal Sport Science and Health • http://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/education/postgraduate-courses/ Support development of CPD • Clinicians, practitioners, exercise professionals • http://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/education/cpd/
Interventions Exercise in kidney disease • Provision of exercise advice and rehabilitation programmes for kidney patients currently lags behind that of other conditions • Our studies look at how those at all stages of kidney disease can build exercise into their lifestyles to maintain their health and wellbeing as long as possible • Studies include a six-month walking study in pre-dialysis patients and an intra-dialytic exercise study
Knowledge Translation:Physical activity guidelines for adults with a spinal cord injury
Other resources • Animation • Sedentary Behaviour Animation • Infographics • Online CPD courses • Exercise videos • Resistance band exercises • Storytelling • Lorraine's story • Carolyne's story • NCSEM Get Active! • We need your thoughts…!
NCSEM Get Active • Physical activity advice and signposting in a single place • Public, patient, health and social care providers • Tiered information: • Government guidelines • Exercise prescription • Current initiatives • Moving Medicine • CSP links etc. PHE/ ACSM/ FSEM guidelines Condition-Specific Evidence and Guidelines e.g. Moving medicine National Physical activity initiatives and resources e.g This Girl Can, Run to the Beat, Parkrun Local scheme information (including a search using postcode option)
Kristen Clements Senior Translational Scientist & NCSEM Consortium Manager K.M.Clements@lboro.ac.uk www.ncsemem.org.uk @ncsemem