Professor Francis O’Connor, from the AMSSM: Challenging leg pain/calf pain and military injuries

BJSM’s good friend Fran O’Connor is Director of Emergency Medicine and Sports Medicine at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a former President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM, @theAMSSM). He also held leadership positions in the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Athletic Association. He is a prolific researcher with more than 60 scientific journal publications, 25 book chapters and numerous national and international presentations. In the podcast he addresses the following questions: •What are the main challenges seen by clinicians who work in military settings? •What is the differential diagnosis to consider in the patient with calf pain, leg pain? •How does one make the compartment pressure diagnosis? •What are the challenges of measuring compartment syndrome? •What is the conservative management for compartment syndrome? (Prof O’Connor touches on gait retraining first and foremost, Pose running technique, botox injection) •Is there a role for surgery, and if so, which surgery? What are the outcomes? •What is the role of orthoses? Link to previous podcasts: This podcast is complemented by one with Dr Jonathan Finnoff: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/mayo-clinic-and-amssm-sports-medicine-specialist-dr-jon-finnoff-on-managing-leg-pain-in-sport?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1 Andy Franklin-Miller’s BJSM podcast on exertional compartment syndrome and gait retraining: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/running-injuries-with-andy Andy Cornelius on how to assess a runner and what to do when you see abnormalities: https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/keeping-runnners-running-the-secrets-of-running-assessment-advice-and-exercise-progressions