The Olympics are here and it’s time for some sports medicine hypothesis generation.
We featured Throckmorton’s sign, also known as John Thomas sign, on LITFL a few years ago. We concluded that the astute physicians among us will wisely elect to actually look for pathology on the radiograph rather than rely solely on this sign to find a fracture.
Yet, one cannot help but wonder if it might predict which side will be injured even before a traumatic episode takes place.
Cycling is the obvious sport for testing this hypothesis, for a number of reasons…
About Chris Nickson
I had always been taught “Percy Points to the Pathology”; surely there’s a Xmas BMJ paper in here somewhere?
I assume that -- according to Throckmorton- most of the cyclists pictured will suffer a head injury at some point -- hence the helmets??
Or perhaps a few clavicles and AC joints, eh.
C
NZ -- Gold in the rowing! A backward country -- they do their best work going backwards! ;-P
Must be why we do so well when we come to Australia…
C
Make that 3 golds mate -how’d ya like them apples?
C
Yeah, but we are best at coming second….. By miles
Sad really
A perfect choice to test your hypothesis against.