SAGE Podcast

Dr. Brett Owens discusses 5 articles from the July 2013 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 5 minutes.

Dr. Don Shelbourne discusses his article from the July 2013 issue of AJSM, Minimum 10-Year Follow-up of Patients After an Acute, Isolated Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Treated Nonoperatively. Background: Few studies report long-term subjective or objective results for acute, isolated posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injuries in patients followed prospectively. Hypothesis: Subjective or objective results will not differ based on PCL laxity. http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/03/0363546513486771.abstract

The four articles in this special issue focus on developmental education students and the research needed for an enhanced understanding of the instructional and institutional approaches that promote their success. This introduction summarizes the purpose and key findings of each article, noting implications for future research and practice.

Armando Alvarez, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, talks with guest editor Sara C. Motta and authors Bruce Gilbert and Marcela Olivera about the July 2013 issue titled Reinventing the Lefts in Latin America: Critical Perspectives from Below.

This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutral” and technical-rational decision. However, the local community interpreted this move as the historical continuation of racist behaviors and policies that had been experienced by the community over a period of several decades. Critical race theory (CRT) allows for an analysis regarding the nature of these beliefs about race and indicates the need for school administrators to engage the realities of the community members they serve, rather than merely enacting technical-rational administrative behaviors that serve to continue regimes of marginalization and oppression.

There are pedagogies used in schools that are extraordinary, in the sense that they intentionally go beyond the ordinary understandings and practices many children and youth experience as individuals in schools on a daily basis, to guide them toward the pursuit of social justice, agency as learners, and constructive action. However, audiences may not have read or learned about these pedagogies unless they appeared in journals as a separate item or a collection of articles in a themed volume. For the past several volumes, Review of Research in Education has focused on issues of equity, youth culture, and democracy. In this volume, we continue this pattern to center on extraordinary pedagogies in school settings serving nondominant students. Our intention is to share with you through these reviews some of the exceptional pedagogies that teachers and educators have developed in recent years to address the needs of nondominant students and families served by public schools and institutions of higher learning.

Dr David Dodick and Professor Arne May discuss the pearls and pitfalls in headache research following the release of the Pearls and Pitfalls Special Issue in June 2013

Dr Ashley Randall at the University of Arizona talks about cooperation with your romantic partner.

The June 2013 podcast comprises of interviews with Dr Chantal Simon, Executive Editor of InnovAiT, Dr Tom Bailey regarding his article 'Resuscitation of Children' and a summary of this month’s News and Views.

In this podcast Jeffrey G. Snodgress discusses computer games and internet addiction from an anthropological perspective.

The current literature on Black middle-class men is sparse, leaving little to be known about the raced, classed, and gendered experiences for many Black middle-class male students and their families. Employing qualitative methodology, this study uses critical race theory (CRT) to examine the educational experiences of Black middle-class high school male students through the counterstories of Black students and their fathers. This study highlights various microaggression events experienced by the male students as well as the forms of cultural wealth drawn upon by the fathers to divert the potential negative outcomes of school racism.

Dr. James Bradley discusses his article from the June 2013 issue of AJSM, Operative Management of Partial-Thickness Tears of the Proximal Hamstring Muscles in Athletes. Background: Partial tears of the hamstring muscle origin represent a challenging clinical problem to the patient and orthopaedic surgeon. Although nonoperative treatment is frequently met with limited success, there is a paucity of data on the efficacy of surgical management for partial proximal hamstring tears in the active and athletic population. Purpose: To evaluate the results of an anatomic repair for partial tears of the hamstring muscle origin in athletes. http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/04/10/0363546513482717.abstract

Dr. Brett Owens discusses 5 articles from the June 2013 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 5 minutes.

Author Heather Turner discusses her article from the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Community Disorder, Victimization Exposure, and Mental Health in a National Sample of Youth. This study considers whether elevated distress among youth living in more disordered neighborhoods can be explained by personal exposure to violence and victimization, level of non-victimization adversity, and family support. Analyses were based on a sample of 2,039 youth ages 10 to 17 who participated in the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, a national telephone survey conducted in 2008. Using structural equation modeling, we find no direct effects of community disorder on distress, once the significant mediating effects of victimization, family support, and adversity are taken into account. Using a comprehensive measure of victimization covering several domains of experiences, we show that past-year exposure to child maltreatment, sexual victimization, peer assault and bullying, and property crime each significantly mediate the community disorder–distress association. A measure of the total number of victimization types to which youth were exposed (i.e., level of “poly-victimization”) had the strongest mediating effect. http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/54/2/258.abstract

Author Lucie Kalousova discusses her article from the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Debt and Foregone Medical Care. Most American households carry debt, yet we have little understanding of how debt influences health behavior, especially health care seeking. We examined associations between foregone medical care and debt using a population-based sample of 914 southeastern Michigan residents surveyed in the wake of the late-2000s recession. Overall debt and ratios of debt to income and debt to assets were positively associated with foregoing medical or dental care in the past 12 months, even after adjusting for the poorer socioeconomic and health characteristics of those foregoing care and for respondents’ household incomes and net worth. These overall associations were driven largely by credit card and medical debt, while housing debt and automobile and student loans were not associated with foregoing care. These results suggest that debt is an understudied aspect of health stratification. http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/54/2/204.abstract