MOST LIKED BLOG OF 2011 – GETS A DUST OFF AND FRONT BLOG STATUS FOR 24 HOURS. PLEASE ‘LIKE’ OR RETWEET IF YOU FEEL THIS IS MESSAGE HAS NOT GOT THROUGH TO THOSE MAKING PUBLIC HEALTH DECISIONS OR TO ALL CLINICIANS GIVING HEALTH ADVICE Smoking, diabetes and obesity are major public health concerns. At the […]
Category: Conferences
View Top Lectures Online: IOC World Conference of Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport (Monaco, April)
On April 7-9 , 2011 I was among 900 attendees at the fantastic IOC World Conference of Prevention of Injury& Illness in Sport in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. The great program included: Sudden cardiac death (Jonathan Drezner, USA; Antonio Pelliccia, Italy) What is the best practice for musculoskeletal screening if prevention is the objective? (Roald Bahr, Norway) Mechanisms […]
Guest Blog by Prof Caroline Finch: Implementation study design and a protocol example
There was considerable discussion at the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport about the need for implementation studies – one could even say there was a certain buzz about this. In my keynote address about the art and science of implementation research, I emphasised that to be most useful such […]
Two Upcoming Events in Australia
Clinical Sports Medicine (Sydney, March 6th): The Knee This 1-day event, presented by Australasian College of Sports Physicians, has been designed for general practitioners, allied health practitioners and specialist trainees. Program highlights include: A presentation of ACL and PCL injuries by Dr. John Orchard followed by a debate on ACL reconstruction. Discussions on the causes […]
Bloodgate decision on Friday – learning from the past…
The Royal Society of Medicine (London) hosted a conference on sports medicine, ethics, and law last night (Jan 11, 2011). Before punsters start with the ‘I thought that was a contradiction in terms’, this fascinating meeting brought debate about: ‘Bloodgate’, the ethics of taping a ‘non-injury’ so as this obvious decoy would draw tackles away […]
Lateral hip pain – more likely gluteus medius tendinopathy than ‘trochanteric bursitis’
Our New Zealand colleagues had a great sports medicine conference in Wellington this week following their successful hosting of the World Championships in Rowing. Congratulations to Dr Chris Milne and colleagues from all disciplines who made this a success. In a conversation with Chris I was reminded that the lateral hip pain label of ‘trochanteric […]
Football Science and Medicine – Kuala Lumpur 2011
AFC Conference on Science & Football Medicine Kuala Lumpur March 18-20, 2011 The past 3 Asian Science and Football conferences (Tokyo; Kuala Lumpur & Muscat) were a great success with approx. 450 participants from all over the world. KL promises a great program of keynote address symposiums, free papers, poster presentations and clinical workshops in Sports […]
The World First’s for ASICS UKSEM…
iPhone App is being launched for the 2010 conference. (Sorry, non Apple users- wait for 2011!) UKSEM iPhone App allows you to See what’s going on, where to go, exhibition details, speakers, plan your schedule, set reminders and link to our Video Replay. Speakers and sessions will be uploaded to the UKSEM site immediately after the lecture- So you can review […]
Inaugural ASICS UKSEM, London (24-27th Nov 2010)
The aim of ASICS UKSEM is to develop the multidisciplinary team- from GP to elite team doctor, physiotherapist in private practice, soft tissue therapist, strength and conditioning coach, or high performance coach. All to provide superior patient outcomes. We are delighted to be endorsed by the Fitness Industry Association, The British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and […]
Asian Football Confederation – Conference 2011
Previous Asian Football Confederation sports medicine conferences were held in Malaysia, Oman and Japan. The 2011 Conference on Science and Football Medicine is being held from March 18–20 in Kuala Lumpur and a terrific cadre of football experts are on the program. […]