Department of Sports Medicine

Activities of the department

• Emergency medical care – during international and national championships, selection trials and other competitions held in NIS.
• Periodic health evaluation of athletes –
  • Assessment and monitoring of medical fitness of athletes
  • Early detection of risk and prevention of injuries

Research Activities

• Screening for Relative energy deficiency in Sports.
• ECG monitoring in Indian Athletes.
• Injury Surveillance during training and competitions.
• Nutritional deficiencies in athletes.
• Core stability patterns in different sports.

• Academics
  • Conducts DSM course in collaboration with Govt medical college, Patiala
  • Teaching sports medicine subject to MSC sports coaching students, Diploma trainees, refreshers courses, certificate courses and various skill development courses including massage course and advanced massage courses.
• Monitoring Sports Medicine center programs
  • Athletes Health promotion and education program.
  • Infections and illness prevention program.
• Management of sports injury cases referred from peripheral centres and referrals to higher centres for arthroscopies.
• Athletes Health Promotion activities
  • Including anti doping awareness.
  • Counseling regarding use of nutritional supplements.
  • Psychological counseling during injury rehabilitation.
• Sport injury management – Assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of athletes in NIS Patiala.
• Investigations for sports injuries
  • Digital X-Rays.
  • Routine clinical blood and urine investigations.
• Physiotherapy and rehabilitation services for injured athletes
• Massage services for athletes recovery
• Administrative work – in the form of procurement of medicines and physiotherapy items, Maintenance of medical store and pharmacy

LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS

Publications

• A. Mallick, J. Dande, S.D Sarma (2024) Promise of PRP in Hamstring injury, is it Far Fetched? A literature Review – International Journal of Medical Science in Clinical Research and Review 2024/ Volume 7/ Issue 1/23-31.
• A. Mallick, J. Dande, A. Gupta (2021) Intramuscular degloving injury of rectus femoris in a young elite athlete: a case report – International Journal of sports exercise and health research 2021;5(2):42-44
• J. Dande, A. Mallick, A.A. Patil, S.S Kalra (2021) Injury surveillance during elite women’s national boxing championship in India – Medical Journal Armed forces India 2021.03.016
• A. Mallick, V. Vijayan, J. Dande (2021) Head Gear in prevention of sports related concussion – a literature review across various sports – IP Indian Journal of Neuroscience 2021;7(3):186-191
• A. Mallick, J. Dande, P. Yesha, J. Garg (2021) Magnetic resonance imaging illustration of sports injuries : a pictorial review – International Journal of Radiology and diagnostic imaging 2021:4(2):92-96
• Kalra SS. Mallick A. Dande. J (2020) Sports medicine practice during COVID-19 – A “ New normal “ Int J sports exercise med 6:174, doi.org/10.23937/2469-5718/1510174
• Jahnavi Dande, Anirban Mallick, Dhairyasheel Gole (2020) Unusual cause of mid foot pain in athlete: A Case report, JMSCR 08 issue 11 November 2020.

Conferences

• SPORTS MEDCON 2024 – 24th -25th August, PGIMS, Roltak Haryana
  • Dr. Jahnavi Dande as invited speaker on Sports injury and illness surveillance – lets make the base covered and faculty for Team Physician workshop.
  • 7th PEFI national conference on sports sciences, 14-15 Decerer 2023, New Delhi – Dr. Jahnavi Dande as invited speaker on Athletes health profiling and monitoring – a rational approach.
• Conferences and courses attended by DSM residents.
• IASMCON-2025- 1st and 2nd March 2025 at D.Y. PATIL University, Pune. DSM residents oral presentation titled Unveiling Awareness -Air quality and its impact on health and performance of Elite Indian cyclists
• SPORTS MEDCON – 2024 – 24th -25th August, 2024 PGIMS, Rohtak Haryana DSM residents oral presentation titled Doping Knowledge, attitudes and perception among Elite Indian Athletes – current scenario and way forward.
• POACON – 18th to 19th February 2023 – Govt. Medical College and Hospital, Patiala.
• 7th World congress on science and medicine in cricket – 3rd to 5th November 2023, TAJ Chandigarh.
• 2nd IOA Ortho PG teaching course – 20th to 21st January, Govt. Medical College and Hospital, Patiala.
• 2nd IOA Ortho PG teaching course – 20th to 21st January, Govt. Medical College and Hospital, Patiala.
• Global soccer conclave – Sep 2022 Mumbai
  Dr. Jahnavi Dande as invited panelist on football medicine – science and technology in soccer.
• Sports MEDCON – 2022, PGIMS, Rohtak – 28 August- 2022
  • Dr. Jahnavi Dande – invited speaker on Principles of sports rehabilitation
  • Poster presentation by DSM students
  • I. Return to play decision making – checklist to get on track – Dr. Shreshth, Dr. Ramandeep Bhardwaj,
  • II. Post covid assessment & gradual return to play – Is it necessary? Do covid +ve athletes need it? – Dr. Vinu Mohan, Dr. Emil Cyril, Dr. Kishore V V,.
  • Mr Yeshwant Kumar Kaikey – Invited speaker on Recovery in sports
• DSM students attended NCSSR conference held at Panchkula from 06/06/2022 to 07/06/2022
• Global sports medicine and science e-conclave – March 2022 –
  Dr. Jahnavi Dande as invited panelist on injury prevention in football.

ICSEM conference – Feb 14th to 16th, 2020, Jaipur

• Keynote speakers
  • Headgear in Olympics boxing – Paradigm shift but mystery unsolved – Dr. Anirban Mallick
  • Challenges in sports cardiology – Current evidence and our experience –Dr. Jahnavi Dande
• Oral presentations
  • Injury surveillance in junior women national boxing championship – Dr. Dhairyasheel Gole, Dr. Anshul Gupta, Dr. Jahnavi Dande Dr. Anirban Mallick
  • ECG interpretation of elite endurance athletes – Indian perspective Dr. Deepak Babu, Dr. Anirban Mallick, Dr. Jahnavi Dande (AWARDED BEST PAPER)

Global Soccer E- Conclave – June 6th & 7th, 2020

• Invited Speakers
  • Training load monitoring in football – how much is too much? – Dr Jahnavi Dande, Dept. of Sports Medicine, NS NIS Patiala
  • From research to rule book – How sports medicine impacted football? – Dr. Anirban Mallick, Dept. of Sports Medicine, NS NIS Patiala
• Poster presentation
  • FIFA protocol to prevent sudden cardiac arrest – Planning to implementation- Dr. Dhairyasheel Gole
  • EPTS – Football technology for player monitoring – Dr. Yesha Patel Vijay
  • FIFA world cup Russia 2018 – A glance through crucial injuries – Dr. Vishnu Vijayan
• Ms. Anamika Barman Das, First Advance Sports Massage Course student 2nd place in Advance and 3rd place in Massage category in Swiss Massage championship held in Switzerland on 29th & 30th April, 2023