Arthritis Research UK Centre: Putting osteoarthritis in the spotlight

Professor Mark Batt graduated from Cambridge University Medical School in 1984 and trained in Family Medicine. He obtained a Diploma in Sports Medicine from the University of London in 1991 and completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of California, Davis in 1993. Since 1995, he has been in Nottingham, United Kingdom, as a consultant/senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Nottingham University Hospitals where he was appointed Special Professor in 2004. He serves or served as a consultant for The England and Wales Cricket Board, The Rugby Football League, British Gymnastics, The English Institute of Sport, The Wimbledon Tennis Championships, ATP and the WTA. He is immediate past-president of the Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine and past Chairman of the Specialist Advisory Committee in SEM. He chaired the work-group which produced the successful case for SEM as a specialty of medicine (2005). He is director of the Arthritis Research UK (ARUK) Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis: a consortium of Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton, Bath, Loughborough, UCL and Leeds Universities investigating the relationship between acute and overuse injury and subsequent Osteoarthritis. In this podcast, Dr. Liam West (@Liam_West) poses questions that see Prof Batt take listeners through the objectives and aims of the ARUK centre and the research it is currently working on. Prof Batt also gives his views on how to ensure that research remains clinically relevant before finishing the podcast discussion the future avenues for the treatment of osteoarthritis. Further Reading ARUK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis - http://www.sportsarthritisresearchuk.org/seoa/index.aspx ARUK Research Projects - http://www.sportsarthritisresearchuk.org/seoa/research-projects/index.aspx ARUK Work Packages - http://www.sportsarthritisresearchuk.org/seoa/work-packages/workpackages.aspx ARUK Centre Publications - http://www.sportsarthritisresearchuk.org/seoa/publications/index.aspx Isokinetic Football Medicine Conference, 11-12th April 2015, QEII Conference Centre, London http://www.footballmedicinestrategies.com/en/ Exercise for lower limb osteoarthritis: systematic review incorporating trial sequential analysis and network meta-analysis http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/21/1579.abstract  Optimal types of exercise for lower limb osteoarthritis http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2014/02/18/bjsports-2013-093384.full  No benefit of surgery over physiotherapy for meniscal tears in adults with knee osteoarthritis http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/9/797 Osteoarthritis as an outcome of paediatric sport: an epidemiological perspective http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2011/02/17/bjsm.2010.081984 Osteoarthritis in football: FIFA/F-MARC approach http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/45/8/673.extract