On line registration now open at arsenal/semsconference Please find below the current schedule and conference information. Be very grateful if you can make relevant colleagues aware of the day. If you plan to attend and wish to join one of the tours of Emirates Stadium, please note that numbers are limited and early confirmation is advised. If you have any queries, please get in touch. Every best wish, Barry Barry Hill E: barryghill@hotmail Arsenal FC SEMS Conference (presented by Vitality) - The Muscle in Sport: Current concepts in muscle injury prevention, classification, treatment and rehabilitation 24/03/15 The Royal Oak Suite, Emirates Stadium, London, UK (FSEM Accreditation to be applied for) Dr Gary O’Driscoll, Arsenal Football Club Medical Director, and Mr Colin Lewin, Head of Medical Services, are delighted to confirm that this year’s Conference will take place on Tuesday 24 March 2015 at Emirates Stadium. Building on the success of previous conferences, this day will be high level, interdisciplinary and as interactive as possible. Open to all medical and scientific healthcare professionals working or with an interest in sport, the day will be attended by up to 275 delegates and is aimed at SEM Faculty Fellows, senior doctors, physiotherapists and professional healthcare staff working with elite sportspersons. This year the main topics of discussion will revolve around the muscle in sport providing an update on current concepts in muscle injury prevention, classification, treatment and rehabilitation. The excellent international faculty for the day includes the keynote speakers Dr Ramon Cugat (presenting on The use of PRP in the management of muscle injuries) and Dr Carl Askling (presenting on Different types of acute hamstring injuries in elite sport). We are also delighted to include within the faculty Mr Brian O’Driscoll who will talk about The effects of recurrent muscle tears on the athlete and how best to overcome them. The full schedule and speaker details are below with on line registration now open at arsenal/semsconference Conference Fees - included in the standard delegate fee of £150 is attendance at all sessions, FSEM accreditation, attendance certificate, refreshments and food, a guided tour of Emirates Stadium (subject to availability) and a post event memory stick with all presentations uploaded. Current full BASEM members will receive a 10% discount. A limited number of 15 discounted places at £90 pp are available for full-time undergraduate and postgraduate SEM students. These will be allocated in the order that registrations are confirmed. Please note to receive student discount, ID will need to be bought on the day. Stadium Guided Tours - please note that there will be the opportunity for attendees to take a guided tour of Emirates stadium and its facilities. The tours have limited availability with a maximum of 30 per tour. Current Conference schedule (subject to change): 0800 Registration, Refreshments and Commercial Exhibition 0815 Tour of Emirates Stadium (30 minutes - please register) 0915 Welcome and Opening Dr Gary ODriscoll, Arsenal FC Medical Director Morning Session - Chair Mr Colin Lewin 0930 The use of PRP in the management of muscle injuries Dr Ramon Cugat 1015 The effects of recurrent muscle tears on the athlete and how best to overcome them Mr Brian O’Driscoll 1045 Topic - tbc Mr David Epstein 1115 Refreshments and Commercial Exhibition 1145 Muscle injury classification… the Munich consensus Dr Peter Ueblaker 1200 Exhibitors Tour of Emirates Stadium (30 minutes) 1215 Muscle injury prognosis, return to player and reinjuries, and the value of MRI in the management of these injuries Dr Guus Reurink 1245 All Speakers Question Session 1315 Lunch and Commercial Exhibition 1330 Tour of Emirates Stadium (30 minutes - please register) Afternoon Session - Chair Dr Gary O’Driscoll 1415 Different types of acute hamstring injuries in elite sport Dr Carl Askling 1500 Muscle Injuries. A new classification from UK Athletics Dr Noel Pollock 1530 The role of occlusion therapy in muscle hypertrophy and injury management Dr Stephen Patterson 1600 Refreshments and Commercial Exhibition 1630 The application of a rehabilitation programme to reduce muscle injury frequency in an elite football academy Mr Alastair Thrush and Mr Jordan Reece 1700 All Speakers Question Session 1730 Conference Close Dr Gary ODriscoll, Arsenal FC Medical Director Some delegate comments from the 2013 and 2014 Arsenal FC conferences - Excellent day - very well organised and great speakers; Excellent seminar with good range of speakers - well done; Excellent, Very clinically relevant; Absolutely brilliant conference - will recommend to my colleagues; well-presented and very interesting. Brief Speaker Biographies - draft Conference Chairs: Dr Gary O’Driscoll MBBS BSc (Hons) Dip SEM FFSEM, is now in his sixth full season at Emirates Stadium and has overseen major developments in the medical department since joining the Club. Providing medical expertise for the first team and academy sides, he has vast experience of top-level sport, having spent six years with the Ireland rugby team and been official doctor on two British Lions tours. Gary was instrumental in helping to establish the Clubs medical facility, and can sometimes be seen treating players on the pitch. Mr Colin Lewin BSc (Hons) MCSP SRP, is the Head of Medical Services at Arsenal FC, and is now one year short of two decades with the Club. Colin has played a huge part in the development of the medical department and three more physiotherapists, Simon Harland, Ben Ashworth and Declan Lynch work permanently at the training ground under Colin’s stewardship to ensure that each player’s rehabilitation is monitored and treated with maximum efficiency and that each player is continuously working on their areas for improvement to ensure that the injury risk is minimized. Always keen to innovate, Colin has built consultation relationships with nutritionists, yoga teachers and other sports medicine researchers as he strives to ensure that Arsène Wenger’s players enjoy the highest calibre of treatment, rehabilitation and conditioning. A chartered physiotherapist, he is a highly-popular figure with players and staff alike. Along with Dr ODriscoll, Colin oversaw the creation and set-up of the brand new state-of-the-art medical centre at the training ground, completed in early 2011/12. Conference Speakers: Dr Carl Askling PhD, PT, is a researcher and lecturer at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He defended his Thesis 2008, “Hamstring muscle strain”, and won the 2008 European Athletics Innovation Award for his paper “Hamstring muscle strain in sprinters”. He is working with prevention and rehabilitation of acute hamstring strains in elite sports especially in soccer and track and field. Dr Ramon Cugat is an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Trauma Head Barcelona University and Founder of The Garcia Cugat Foundation for Biomedical Research, Spain. He was born in Tortosa, Province of Tarragona, Spain. He began his studies in Medicine at Barcelona University and received his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1975. He went on to receive his doctorate and a degree of Specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. Dr Cugat is currently an Orthopaedic Surgeon and Sports Trauma Head and Associate Professor of the Barcelona Hospital Clinic of Barcelona University. Dr Cugat is internationally recognized for his expertise in orthopaedic sports medicine and arthroscopy. He has authored over 102 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals, 10 book chapters, 2 books and acts as a referee for 5 international journals. He has also participated in over 1000 national and international conferences and training courses. Dr Cugat collaborates with the Arthroscopical Laboratory of the Morphological and Odontoestomatology School at Barcelona University, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Sports Trauma Doctor of the Barcelona Dragons team in the NFL International as well as the Medical Assessor of the President of the Catalan Football Federation. He is a Founding Member of the Spanish Arthroscopy Association, an Honorary Member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), Indian Arthroscopy Society, Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Chile and the Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Georgia as well as a member of international societies such as the European Society of Sports, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) and many more. Drs Ramon and Montse Cugat are also the Founders of the Garcia Cugat Foundation for Biomedical Research. Mr David Epstein is an investigative reporter at ProPublica and the author of the New York Times bestselling book The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, published by Penguin in August 2013. He previously was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He specializes in science issues in sports and investigative reporting. With his colleague Selena Roberts, Epstein broke the story that the Yankees Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003. Mr Brian ODriscoll is a former Irish professional rugby union player. Registered at University College Dublin RFC, he played at outside centre for the Irish provincial team Leinster and formerly for Ireland. He captained Ireland from 2003 until 2012, and captained the British and Irish Lions for their 2005 tour of New Zealand. Brian is the most-capped player in rugby union history, having played 141 test matches – 133 for Ireland (83 as captain), and 8 for the British and Irish Lions. He scored 46 tries for Ireland and 1 try for the Lions in 2001, making him the highest try scorer of all time in Irish Rugby. He is the 8th-highest try scorer in international rugby union history, and the highest scoring centre of all time. Brian holds the Six Nations record for most tries scored with 26. He has scored the most Heineken Cup tries (30) for an Irishman and was chosen as Player of the Tournament in the 2006, 2007 and 2009 Six Nations Championships. Dr Stephen Patterson BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, graduated with a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from Napier University, Edinburgh (2005) before completing an MSc in Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise from Strathclyde University in Glasgow (2006). He then moved to Loughborough University where he completed his PhD specialising on the responses and adaptations to resistance training with blood flow restriction. Since 2009, Stephen has worked at St Marys University as a full time Lecturer in Exercise Physiology on the BSc Sport Science programme as well as the MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology and MSc Strength and Conditioning (Distance Learning) courses. Over the last ten years he has also provided sport science support to numerous athletes and teams, including British Water skiing, Harlequins Rugby League, national level sprinters and endurance runners as well as the Scottish football association. He is a member of the Physiological Society, BASES and the European College of Sport Sciences. Stephen’s main research interest focuses on the responses and adaptations to exercise in young and old people. Specific focus is using the model of exercise with blood flow restriction and the effect of Ischemic preconditioning on exercise performance. Dr Noel Pollock MB BCh MSc Sports Med FFSEM CESR, graduated with Honours in Medicine from Queens University Belfast and completed an MSc with Distinction in Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM) at Bath University. He works as a Sports Medicine Doctor for UK Athletics, providing medical services to the Great Britain Track and Field team, at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and Lee Valley Athletics Centre. Since 2006 he has been the Great Britain team doctor at 6 European Championships and 5 World Championships, including the IAAF Berlin Track and Field World Championships in 2009, the 2010 Barcelona European Championships, the Beijing Paralympic Games and the 2012 Istanbul World Indoor Championships. He was a sports medicine lead doctor in the London 2012 Athletics Stadium. He has completed Specialist training in Sport & Exercise Medicine and is a Consultant in SEM. He is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine. Dr Pollock is recognised as a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine by all the major private medical insurance providers. His special interests are tendon injuries. bone health and healing, and the use of injection therapies in musculoskeletal injury. He is a former endurance athlete and won national titles and international honours for Northern Ireland in cross country, 5k and 1500m. Mr Jordan Reece BSc (Hons) sport science & sports rehabilitation, BSc (Hons) physiotherapy, is currently working as a physiotherapist with Arsenals Under-18s, Jordan initially worked as a senior physiotherapist at Guys & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. From there he went on to become head of sports science and medicine at Crystal Palaces academy before he joined Arsenal. Dr Guus Reurink PhD, Erasmus Medical Centre, Netherlands – bio tbc Mr Alastair Thrush BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science, MSc Physiotherapy, MCSP, is the lead academy physiotherapist at Arsenal responsible for the medical welfare of our academy players across London Colney and Hale End. He is match day physiotherapist for the under-21s, and on a day-to-day basis can be found at London Colney looking after the treatment and rehabilitation of academy players in the Professional Development phase. Having qualified from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2003, he worked with Scotland’s youth sides and spent two years working with athletes in Australia and New Zealand before returning to the UK to work in rugby. Dr Peter Ueblaker Dr med, is a Specialist for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Sports medicine and Chiropractic. His medical studies were at Ludwig-Maximilians University and the Technical University of Munich with further education at the Clinic for Orthopaedics and Sports Orthopaedics, Clinic of the Technical University of Munich. Dr Ueblaker undertook further studies at the Clinic for Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery of the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf and qualified as specialist for orthopaedics and trauma surgery in 2007 – 2008. He is Partner in the group practice Müller-Wohlfahrt/Hänsel/Ueblacker in the Müller-Wohlfahrt Orthopaedic Centre in Munich. Peter’s additional qualifications include Special sonography of the musculoskeletal system, Sports medicine and Chiropractic. His research focus is Tissue Engineering, Genetic transfer to joint cartilage and meniscus, molecular characterisation of cartilage tissue. Dr Ueblaker is a Member of the Association of Arthroscopy (AGA), The German Association for Chirotherapy (DGCh), The German Association for Trauma Surgery (DGU) and The German Association of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC).
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