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John Orchard
@drjohnorchard.bsky.social
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Sport and exercise medicine physician, injury and illness prevention. Cricket, football, sports cardiology, climate emergency, covid-cautious, pro-vaccine, evidence-based medicine. Adjunct Professor University of Sydney @medsky.social
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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · Aug 1
Our new book recently published covering injuries, lumbar stress fractures and all other Sports Science Sports Medicine in our great sport of Cricket link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Cricket Sports Medicine
Cricket Sports Medicine is a guide for healthcare professionals on areas including injury prevention, rehabilitation to optimise cricketers of all levels.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d
It’s not “partisan” to defend science, evidence, and objective reality.

It’s partisan to attack science, evidence, and objective reality, to benefit your political “team.”

That’s true with climate science, with vaccinology, & with evidence-based city-building, all of which are being attacked.

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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · 6d
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Isolated Anterior T‐Wave Inversion in Elite Athletes: Prevalence and Clinical Relevance by Sex and Sporting Discipline | Journal of the American Heart Association
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14d
On the ICE shooting.

1. It's terrible.

2. Too many disturbed people have access to too many guns in this country.

3. Too many political figures use incendiary and dehumanizing rhetoric. By far the most significant of them is the president. The fish of political violence rots from the head down.
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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · 13d
Still one of the best #Australia #guncontrol #USA

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The Cost Of Gun Control: This Australian Man Has No Way To Kill Everyone At The Restaurant He Got Fired From
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 16d
We have always been at war with Tylenol
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16d
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 16d
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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 17d
I am starting to think it’s bad that we have an executive branch made up of 90% podcasters
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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 16d
joining the war on autism on the side of autism
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 16d
none of this anti-science nonsense is remotely funny except perhaps for this bit
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16d
genuinely crying at this one
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17d
We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
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A/Prof Jessica Orchard @jessicajorchard.bsky.social · 17d
Our review just out: Associations Between Common Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Treatments and All-Cause Mortality
www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13...

Key finding: Exercise and GLP-1 RA prescription are associated with reduced all-cause mortality.
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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · 18d
Exercise and weight loss reduce mortality, opiates increase mortality and joint replacement reduces mortality for 10 years then increases thereafter
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · 18d
www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13... Associations between common hip and knee osteoarthritis treatments and all-cause mortality pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40941581
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19d
Again,

Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids.

Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids.

🙂🙃

No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 19d
"Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book"

And, there it is.

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Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book
The Trump campaign attacked Harris over her positions on transgender rights. She says they were misconstrued.
www.politico.com
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Swamp @sirswampthing.bsky.social · 19d
Biggest cumulative crowds for V/AFL games on consecutive days
195,620 - 2025 Sep 19-20
99,597 GEEL v HAW PF
96,023 COLL v BRIS PF

184,662 - 2023 Sep 07-08
92,636 coll v melb QF
92,026 carl v syd EF

183,213 - 2018 Sep 06-07
91,446 rich v haw QF
91,767 melb v geel EF

#AFL
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 21d
Queensland: Measles Outbreak in Far North Queensland

4 new cases have been confirmed, including QLD Health staff members, taking total infections to 7.

Cairns Hospital says an infectious person spent 8+ hrs in maternity ward.

Masks now mandatory in nursery, maternity, cancer care & ICU units.
Health care workers confirmed positive in Far North Qld measles outbreak
More locally acquired cases have been confirmed with exposure sites now including Cairns Hospital's maternity ward and areas on the Atherton Tablelands.
www.abc.net.au
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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 20d
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20d
We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself.

Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations.

That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21d
"A republic, if you can keep it"

-- Benjamin Franklin
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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 20d
This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it.

Medical justification: none.
Consequences: catastrophic.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20d
What we call things reveals a lot about our priorities and biases.

Graphic via @reenamahajan.bsky.social
Graphic noting that people walking are called “vulnerable road users” as are people cycling. While “vehicles” are considered neutral and normal. But what if drivers were called “dangerous road users?”
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20d
So if anti-fascists are Trump’s political enemies, what does that make Trump?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20d
Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler

The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...
Kimmel yanked: Sen. Fetterman, can we call it ‘fascism’ yet? | Will Bunch
Trump regime shredded the First Amendment in forcing Jimmy Kimmel's off the air. Our 'leaders' still don't get it.
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