The general health benefits of regular exercise are well known and highly recommended, but increasing levels of sports can also mean an increase in the incidence of sports injuries. Therefore, there has been growing interest in sports trauma treatment and prevention, not just in the elite athlete, but also in the ‘weekend warrior’; a term used to describe those who participate in relatively high intensity sports, but only recreationally and normally at the weekend.

This month,BMC Medicine参加The World Sports Trauma Congress and 7th EFOST Congress, which focused on sports trauma, and exercise medicine. This London-based international congress, jointly organized byMike Carmont, an orthopedic surgeon and also the guest editor of our ongoing cross-journal article collection,进步运动减轻ition, Exercise and Medicine, was held from 17th-20th October and attracted several hundred delegates and scores of leaders in the fields of soft tissue injury therapies and orthopedic surgery.

主题were diverse, ranging from tissue engineering strategies and novel surgical techniques to improve outcome, to guest lectures from Olympic medalists. Of particular interest was a lecture fromGeoff Parsons，前奥运会高级跳投，他在1984年和1988年参加奥运会时，他作为一名精英运动员的观点，受到体育创伤专家的对待。骨科领域在这次会议上是杰出的。罗杰·哈克尼（Roger Hackney）, an orthopedic surgeon who has also competed in three Olympic games, provided expert insight both into upper limb orthopedic surgery as well as Olympic level sport.

Another session that generated a great deal of interest focused onplatelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy, which is used with the aim of promoting faster healing in both professional athletes and other individuals recovering from joint, tendon, ligament, and muscle injuries. As highlighted in this session, extensive variability in PRP preparations make it difficult to assess if this therapy is effective, so it continues to be a topic of controversy.

Joint replacement重新铺设正成为一种越来越普遍的现象，并且在年轻的患者中发生，他们希望能够在术后恢复过以前的活跃生活方式。因此，联合替代后的“重新播放”是这次会议的共同主题，诸如专家Myles Coolicanprovided evidence-based recommendations on this issue.

Nicola Maffulli, who was elected next year’s president of the EFOST Congress, discussed tendinopathy management and Achilles’ rupture by highlighting the biological aspects that should be considered when managing these injuries. Additionally, he also provoked an interesting debate on the topic of novel strategies foranterior cruciate ligament(ACL) repair. Here, he emphasized that it is important to gain evidence for, and publish, high level evidence that the novel surgical strategies presented at this session are actually effective in ACL repair.

Sports and exercise medicine encompasses a variety of disciplines, so it is expected that advances in this field will have a substantial impact on other areas of medicine. Our article collection,进步运动减轻ition, Exercise and Medicine, is still open to submissions offering novel insights into the clinical utility of sports medicine Journals included in this cross-journal collection areBMC Medicine,Harm Reduction Journal,JISSN,极端生理与医学和SMARTT。有关任何潜在意见的查询可以发送到bmcmedicineeditorial@biomedcentral.com。