The FA and The Royal College Of Surgeons
The Football Association takes a lead role in ensuring that those involved in the game, whether as players, medical or exercise science staff, benefit from the latest advances in the treatment and prevention of sports injuries and the development of youth and adult players.
The Football Association & The Royal College Of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
20th Joint Conference On Sport Injury
Staverton Park Hotel, Daventry, Northamptonshire
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 2008.
The Football Association and The Royal College of Surgeons (Edin.) invite you to attend the above stated conference.
Staverton Park Hotel is, once again, the venue for this year’s conference. The hotel is a superb venue, with its 250 en-suite bedrooms, excellent leisure facilities and an 18-hole golf course with driving range.
It is important that interested participants book early to avoid disappointment given the popularity of this conference.
A trade exhibition by companies who manufacture or supply related products will be held at the new venue at The Staverton Park Hotel. There will be several opportunities for delegates to view products on display.
• Anterior Knee Pain – Myths, Mysteries, assumptions, half-truths and truths of AKP “A Scientific Rationale” – Evidence based research.
Mr Tony Wilson, BSc MSc Grad Dip Phys MCSP MSOM, Specialist Physiotherapist, The Medical Centre, Chichester.
• Current concepts and controversies in the management of sports trauma to the lower limb.
Mr Tim Spalding, FRCS Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Coventry & Warwickshire Hospitals.
• “Sporting Excellence”. Pushing the boundaries of medicine and science forward. What can other sports teach us?
Mr Graham Maw, Performance Director, The Welsh Rugby Union.
• Nutritional prescription during rehabilitation following long term injury.
Dr Paul Greenhaff, Director of the Centre for Integrated Systems Biology and Medicine CISBM, University of Nottingham.
• Concussion … diagnosis, prevention and return to play.
Dr Erik Matser MD, Eramus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• A review of assessment and management of head injury in sport.
Mr John Martin FRCS, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Swansea.
• Raising the standards of the emergency care of players in professional football.
Mr Alan Hodson, MA MCSP Dip TP Dip RG/RT, Head of Sports Medicine, The Football Association.
Dr Mark Gillett, Consultant Accident & Emergency, Birmingham.
• “Enhancing Performance – The role of the Medical Team.”
Dr Philip Glasgow PhD MTh MRes BSc (Hons) MCSP, The Irish Institute of Sport.
• UK Sport’s think tank on muscle injuries and their management outcomes.
Mr Glenn Hunter MSc MCSP SRP, Sports Medicine/Science Consultant UK Sport.
• Pathologies at the Hip and Groin. Identification, treatment and management to achieve full recovery and return to sport.
Mr E Schilders FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Bradford.
Mr Marc Philippon, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Vale, Colorado, USA.
• “Objective measures to assess and monitor recovery of footballers’ groin pain.”
Anthony Hogan MCSP, Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, St Albans, Australia.
For more informtation please contact:-
Sharon Smith, The FA Medical & Exercise Science Department, Lilleshall National Sports Centre, Nr Newport, Shropshire, TF10 9AT
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