Scandinavian sports medicine congress with high impact

Welcome to this year’s Danish Society of Sports Physical Therapy issue. We highlight some of the researchers whose work we had the privilege of presenting at the Scandinavian Congress of Medicine and Science in Sports in Copenhagen, February 2018. You can find, republished from the BMJ , the paper: ‘ Education plus exercise versus corticosteroid injection use versus a wait and see approach on global outcome and pain from gluteal tendinopathy prospective single blinded randomised clinical trial’ ( see page 1464 ). The first author is Rebecca Mellor, the senior author Sports Physiotherapy Professor Bill ‘ Veni, Vidi, Vici ’ Vicenzino. Watch a short interview with Professor Bill Vicenzino, the winner of the oral presentation competition of Scandinavian Congress of Medicine and Science in Sports (SCMSS) 2018 in Copenhagen, online (https://youtu.be/B_ygENDeIy0). In addition, in this issue we also dig into the topic of how to make research relevant for stakeholders and end-users such as the clinicians, coaches or athletes. As a follow-up editorial to ‘ Slow down to strengthen sport and exercise medicine research ’ ( Br J Sports Med 2017;51:1453), Professor Thomas Bandholm et al (Copenhagen) give their take on how to keep research REAL with an emphasis on identifying stakeholders and end-users as well as considering their …