Ramblings of a biomechanist - Senior Lecturer @QMULSportExMed at Queen Mary University of London

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Joined March 2012
Sport Scientists bitching about bad #OlympicGames commentators knowledge of sport science... Let's apply the same logic when you create "novel statistical methods" or pontificate about statistics when you've had 3 or less classes on the topic your entire life.
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Can we use Generative AI to support the clinician through training and in the real world? @QMULSportExMed @QMUL @Stuart_Miller @ManuAngioi @DrDylanM qmul.ac.uk/fmd/about/news/de…
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It is 2024 and it is still common practice in the medical literature to put a bunch of covariates in a regression model for some bad health outcome and declare the significant associations as "risk factors" that people should worry about. Pseudo science
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Personal reflection: "Clinical prediction models & the multiverse of madness" Thanks to @BMCMedicine for 'getting this' Many reviewers/Eds pushed for writing style & tone changes This thread delves into this & why we stuck to our original vision 1/n bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…
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We used to call this prognostic factor research Now being sold as data-driven, deep learning, AI, advanced covariate adjustment etc
Power and significance: clinical trial benefits with advanced covariate adjustment - Moving from subjective selection of covariates to data-driven methods enhances statistical outcomes, and could bring more drugs through clinical trials to patients nature.com/articles/d42473-0…
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Really interesting paper on Achilles rotation and impact on tendon strain - More rotation impacts tendon strain Frontiers | 3D Models Reveal the Influence of Achilles Subtendon Twist on Strain and Energy Storage frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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This is the 3rd time this colleague gets this on their payslip, for withholding 13 scripts. Management threatens 2 more payslips like this. MAB is over, taking this money can't shorten it. This is not proportionate but punitive; not for the sake of students but to punish staff.
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Just a reminder for anyone measuring ultrasound echo intensity (EI) as an indicator of 'muscle quality' or adiposity - fascicle angles affect the sound echo intensity, so any pennation changes with ageing, exercise training or disuse will influence EI...europepmc.org/article/med/36…
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The word *risk factor* is a risk factor for a completely uninformative data analysis
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In Sports Medicine and Sport Science, we continue to ask the "wrong questions" and interpret those nonsense "answers" in ways that don't make sense. You often don't care if there is a relationship between X and Y. You want to know if changing X causes a change in Y.
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Congratulations to all our iBsc 2022-23 Sports Ex & Med students!! Some great research outputs shared throughout two presentation days @QMULSportExMed @QMULBartsTheLon #sportsmedicine #iBSc
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This weekend I'm taking on Endure 24 solo. Like when I ran the marathon a few years back, I want to take this opportunity to get you thinking about all things mental health, and if you are able to (and want to) @Rethink_ is a great charity to donate to. justgiving.com/fundraising/s…
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Great job @q8mpt really doing a deep dive in to possible local mechanisms for treatment effects.
Saleh Alsaleh #systematicreview local neuromuscular interventions and #pfp - results vary substantiallt - mediation analyses may help understand mechanisms of effects #ipfrr23
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Put a bunch of covariates you happen to have measured in a regression model to predict an outcome and claim it's a very "explainable" model because you have multivariable regression coefficients to look at
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Mandatory periodic reminder to this work of art
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We look forward to a world that prioritises mental health for 52 weeks a year, not just one. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Our new paper in @FrontSportsAL is now available. We observed how a 2-week neuromuscular exercise programme affected biopsychosocial measures in people with PFP. Unlike what has been observed in healthy populations, little changed in this cohort. frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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