Screening for Injury doesn’t work and probably never will, Prof. Roald Bahr.

Prof. Roald Bahr is the Head of the Aspetar Sports Injury & Illness Prevention Programme, Chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center and a member of the IOC medical committee. Prof. Bahr’s main research area is the prevention of injury and illness in athletes, and has published more than 200 papers and book chapters. In this podcast he talks to BJSM's Dr. Liam West about his views on musculoskeletal screening - why it doesn't work and probably never will. You can access his review paper on this topic using the link below: Bahr - Why screening tests to predict do not work - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/13/776 Clarsen - Screening is dead. Long live screening! - http://bit.ly/2tPJ5Hu If you want to catch Prof. Bahr and other keynote speakers get along to the Dutch annual sports medicine scientific conference in Holland on the 23rd and 24th November 2017.

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