Peeling off musculoskeletal labels: sticks and stones may break my bones, but diagnostic labels can hamstring me forever

Daniel Jonah Friedman¹, Louise Tulloh², Karim M Khan^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ddfriedman@gmail.com.
² North Sydney Sports Medicine Centre, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Family Practice and Kinesiology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, Vancouver, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Daniel Jonah Friedman et al. Br J Sports Med. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;55(21):1184-1185.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2021-103998. Epub 2021 May 6.

Daniel Jonah Friedman¹, Louise Tulloh², Karim M Khan^{3

4}

¹ Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ddfriedman@gmail.com.
² North Sydney Sports Medicine Centre, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Family Practice and Kinesiology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, Vancouver, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: diagnosis; evidence based; sports and exercise medicine.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: DJF and LT are associate editors for BJSM. KMK is the former editor in chief of BJSM.

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