Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health

the institute of sport exercise and

health has been set up as an Olympic

legacy project it caters both for elite

athletes but also translates that to

other people involved in sport and

exercise and most importantly it's

engaged in really trying to increase

physical activity in exercise for the

population in order to mitigate the

effects of chronic diseases and

inactivity and to improve the health of

nation we treat a variety of conditions

be they acute injuries like a knee

ligament rupture for example and at the

other extreme which retain cancer

respiratory disease diabetes obesity

trying to get those people more active

and reduce the burden of that disease

and improve their quality of life

patients have multidisciplinary team

around them they can have their imaging

including MRI x-ray ultrasound and then

they are referred on for surgery at

usage this is a patient of mine who

broke a leg 18 months ago

she's an elite-level rugby player

although it went on to heal uneventfully

we established that she informed chronic

stress fracture and so we undertook an

operation to treat that stress fracture

unfortunately had some irritation from

some of the metal work we used and so

today we've removed the offending

article she'll be able to walk on this

pretty much immediately I should be seen

by a physiotherapist and hopefully their

home base today

I'm feeling good actually and legs not

to painful feeling confident yet I want

to get back to rugby this summer and

play some 7s that's my ultimate aim GPS

can refer directly to the Institute of

Sport exercise and health by referring

to the orthopedic and sports department

at UCLA I was taking my dog for walk to

the park and I tripped over another dog

and I knew I'd done something really bad

to my arm serves then referred to miss H

after the operation I thought I would go

back to the main building and then when

I was giving his letter that's 170 top

of the world I thought just come here

it's a comfortable place to be it's been

great and you understand

now I've been here to see the sole

chance just to see how uncle Armand

physio which was fine push you up to the

ceiling

good and strong and that's the tendon

that we were paired up

many sports injuries will come

throughout the weekend so we've created

a fast track through accent an emergency

so that they can be treated here and

enter the same pathway I would say we're

very enthusiastic club runner I run

every day it's the really important part

of my life I've developed an acute tear

over my leg muscles when I came here I

was examined by a doctor

very thorough history went through my

running background my injuries and the

rehabilitation is being excellent the

last thing you want to do if you're a

keen sportsman is to just stop so you

want to be doing as much as you possibly

can they understand that here and

encourage that I think within a month I

was just able to run the London mouth

and not at my fastest time but it was

fantastic to participate in that a

fabulous day

we're pretty proud of what we've

achieved to date awful lot of work still

to be done but other things that excite

me are the partnerships that we are

starting to form with national governing

bodies and sport and different sport and

organizations and we have the extreme

Everest that's based here and which is a

very very exciting project and team are

based here using the facilities doing

their research one of the biggest common

factors between patients in hospital

especially those who are most ill is

they have low oxygen levels in their

blood we are very much interested in

trying to help them whether you try and

increase the amount of oxygen in their

blood or maybe try and increase their

efficiency with the oxygen they have and

the only way we can actually go about

testing that is by testing healthy

subjects using hypoxic chambers like

this one today we've got Josh in the

chamber and when I'm doing a

cardiopulmonary exercise test with a

measuring loss different parameters

heart rate amount of oxygen is taking in

carbon dioxide is blowing out and we use

tests like this to work out what happens

to people in low oxygen environments

just one example of where the Institute

and I'd real benefit into our populate

health is we're working with the council

at the moment on a project involving

really increasing the physical activity

of young children in schools the

children themselves have designed

playground so there's seven different

designs and six schools and I think the

lovely role that we can play is that

we're going to be given a very

scientific robust analysis of which

playground had the most effect on

getting the kids most physically active

which I think everybody imagines a very

important project being part of this

organization is extremely exciting it's

something we've worked towards for a

long time and it really has been an

opportunity to bring together some of

the best clinicians some of the best

scientists and the best researchers are

some of the best teachers and the

outputs are far greater than any of us

could achieve individually