Hendrik (Paul) Dijkstra

DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care

Thesis

Factors predicting primary cam morphology in athletes

Research abstract

Primary cam morphology is a bony prominence of the femoral head-neck junction that likely develops in young adolescents who regularly participates in high-load sport. Cam morphology causes femoracetabular impingement and early hip osteoarthritis. We do not fully understand how primary cam morphology develops; it is therefore difficult to recommend evidence-based treatment and prevention strategies. 

The aim of my thesis is to contribute to improving the quality of research into primary cam morphology by investigating factors that predict primary cam morphology in athletes. 

Supervisor(s)

Prof Mike Clarke, Prof Sion Glyn Jones, Dr Jason Oke, Prof Karim Khan 

Biography

I have extensive clinical and leadership experience in elite sport including UK Athletics Chief Medical Officer to the Beijing and London Olympic Games and Head Quarters Doctor for Team England at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. He was the Local Organizing Committee Chief Medical Officer for the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Doha, 2014 and the Deputy Medical Director, Local Organizing Committee, IAAF World Athletics Championships, Doha 2019.

As Director of Medical Education at Aspetar I am responsible for an extensive program of accredited Continuing Medical Education / Continuing Professional Development for all licensed healthcare practitioners at Aspetar as well as Aspetar’s undergraduate and graduate student education programs; this include the different fellowship programs in collaboration with the clinical departments.

I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar. 

Publications

Reiman MP, Agricola R, Kemp JL, et al. Consensus recommendations on the classification, definition and diagnostic criteria of hip-related pain in young and middle-aged active adults: from the International Hipe-related Pain Research Network, Zurich 2018 (Accepted for publication, BJSM, January 2020)
 
Kemp JL, Risberg MA, Mosler AB, et al. Physiotherapist-led treatment for young to middle-aged active adults with hip-related pain: Consensus recommendations from the International Hip-related Pain Research Network, Zurich 2018.  Br J Sports Med 2019
 
Mosler AB, Kemp JL, King MG, et al. Standardised measurement of physical capacity in young and middle-aged active adults with hip-related pain: Recommendations from the 1st International Hip-related Pain Research Network (IHiPRN) meeting, Zurich 2018. Br J Sports Med 2019
 
Griffin DR, Dickenson EJ, O’Donnell J, et al. The Warwick Agreement on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI syndrome): an international consensus statement. Br J Sports Med 2016;50:1169–76. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-09674
 
Soligard T, Schwellnus M, Alonso J-M, et al. How much is too much? (Part 1) International Olympic Committee consensus statement on load in sport and risk of injury. Br J Sports Med 2016;50:1030–41. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-096581
 

Papers and lectures

Invited speaker - The IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport, Monaco, March 2020 "To prevent and protect the hip, we have to understand primary cam morphology, its cause and prognosis - but can we yet?"

Key note speaker -  International Conference on Medicine and Science in Athletics, Doha, Qatar (3-5th May 2019). "Shared decision-making in athletics"

Invited speaker – 6th Asian Football Confederation Sports Medicine Conference, Chengdu, China (4-8th March 2019). Delivered presentation: “Evidence-Based Sports Medicine”

Invited key note speaker - Swiss Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy Conference: 15-16th November 2018, BERN, Switzerland. Title: “Hip, Risk and Decision-Making”