ACSP Annual Conference - Program |
Wednesday 22 October 2008
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0700 |
Registration |
0730 - 0830 |
ACSP Registrar Meeting |
0900 - 1030 |
Session 1: Just How Good Are These 'New' Treatments for Tendinopathy? Tales from the Coalface
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Chair: Donald Kuah |
| Dr Chris Milne - Adjunctive Treatments for Tendinopathy - The Waikato Experience |
Dr Ruth Highet - Autologous Blood Injections |
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First and Second Year Registrar Research Projects - Brief Overview |
1030 - 1100 |
Morning Tea |
1100 - 1230 |
Session 2
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Chair: David Humphries |
Vince Higgins lecture - Dr Jenepher Martin - Teaching Sport and Exercise Medicine |
Dr John Amerena - Cardiology and Exercise Prescription Update |
1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
1330 - 1445 |
Session 3 |
Chair: Andrew Potter |
Dr Neels du Toit - Diagnostic Accuracy of Power-Doppler Ultrasound in Patients with Tennis Elbow |
Dr Stuart Down - Movement Discrimination after Intra-Articular Local Anaesthetic of the Ankle Joint |
Dr David Abraham - The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic: Musculoskeletal Injury Surveillance and Risk Factors Associated with Marathon Paddling |
Dr Nick Haslam - Empathy: What Role Does it Have tPlay in Medicine? |
1445 - 1515 |
Afternoon Tea |
1515 - 1645 |
Session 4 |
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Code of Ethics Workshop |
1645 - 1700 |
MOPS Update - Dr Andrew Garnham |
1700 - 1800 |
AGM |
1900 - 2300 |
ACSP Fellowship Dinner |
Thursday 23 October 2008
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0800 |
Registration |
0900 - 1030 |
Session 5 |
Chair: Steve Reid |
Dr Gary Zimmerman - Two Challenging Cases |
Dr Dale Speedy - Exercise Associated Hyponatraemia Consensus Statement Overview |
Dr Ra Durie - TU TOA Project Overview - Giving Back to the Community |
Dr Stephan Rudzki - The Effectiveness of Chilled Intravenous Saline in Cooling Hyperthermic Subjects- A Controlled Study |
1030 - 1100 |
Morning Tea |
1100 - 1230 |
Session 6 |
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Chair: Dr Jeni Saunders |
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Dr Paul Verrills - Update on Interventional Pain Management in Lumbar Spine
Sponsored by MIA
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Dr Abdullah Omari - Popliteal Artery Entrapment in Athletes |
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Dr Andrew Rotstein - MRI of Elbow Sporting Injuries
Sponsored by MIA
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1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
1330 |
3rd Football Australasia Conference starts |
3rd Football Australasia Conference - Preliminary Program |
Thursday 23 October 2008
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Registration Open |
1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
1330 - 1500 |
Session 1: Opening |
| CHAIR - Andrew Jowett |
Welcome – Andrew Jowett |
| Rule Changes to Prevent Injury – Dr Hugh Seward |
Keynote Lecture – Johnny Huard - Regenerative medicine based on muscle stem cells (Part I) |
Epidemiology of Football Injuries |
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Dara Twomey - What are the Main Issues with Using Third Generation Artificial Turf on Community Level Australian Football Ovals? |
1500 - 1530 |
Afternoon Tea |
1530 - 1700 |
Session 2: Muscle / Tendon Injuries in Football |
| CHAIR - John Orchard |
Keynote Lecture – Johnny Huard - Regenerative medicine based on muscle stem cells (Part II) |
John Orchard - Sydney Roosters RLFC - Injection Therapy as a Treatment for Hamstring strains |
Price Warren, Melbourne FC - Hamstring Strains – The Influence of Rehabilitation on Recurrence Rate in Elite Australian Footballers |
Wayne Hoskins - A Randomised Controlled Trial of Manual Therapy for Hamstring Injury Prevention |
1700 - 1830 |
Session 3: Medical Issues in Football |
| CHAIR - Jeff Steinweg |
Dr Karen Holzer, Sports Physician, OPSMC – Exercise-induced Bronchospasm in Football Players |
Dr Ken Fitch, Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Commission – Are Footballers Developing Asthma and/or Airway Hyperresponsiveness Because of Endurance Training? |
A/Prof David Prior, Cardiologist, St Vincents Hospital Melbourne – Cardiac Screening in Football – Acceptable Guidelines |
Simon Locke, Sports Physician, Greenslopes Centre for Sport and Movement, Greenslopes Private Hospital - Can screening for Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes be Reliable, Valid and Ethical? |
Celeste Gerrtsema - The Effect of Commercial Airline Travel on Oxygen Saturation in National Level Footballers and Implications for Altitude Acclimatisation |
1830 - 2000 |
Welcome Reception |
Friday 24 October 2008
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0700 |
Registration |
0730 - 0830 |
WORKSHOPS
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Hamstring Injuries in Football – Expert Panel
Gary Nicholls, APA
Change Room 1 - Level B2 |
ACL Injury Prevention
Tim Doyle, University of WA
Change Room 2 & Oval |
0900 - 1030 |
Session 4: Upper Limb Injuries in Football |
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CHAIR - Greg Hoy |
| Greg Hoy, Melbourne Orthopaedic Group – Management of In-Season Shoulder Instability in AFL |
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George Murrell - The Effect of Taping on the Shoulders of Australian Football Players |
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Jerome Goldberg - Arthroscopic Stabilisation with an Early Return to Play of the Elite Contact Athlete with an Unstable Shoulder |
1030 - 1100 |
Morning Tea
Sponsored by Club Warehouse
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1100 - 1230 |
Session 5: Knee Injuries in Football – A Specific Focus on the ACL – A Collaborative Session with the Australian Knee Society
Covering prevention of ACL injuries, management, surgery and return tsport issues, and long-term outcomes |
Chair: Julian Feller, Australian Knee Society, Orthosport Victoria |
David Lloyd, University of WA – Evidence to Develop Training Programmes to Prevent ACL Injuries in Football |
Mr Hayden Morris, The Park Clinic - Graft Choice in ACL Reconstruction |
Tim Whitehead, Orthosport Victoria – Double-bundle Grafts in Football |
Mr Matthew Liptak, Orthopaedics SA – Return to Play and Player Performance After Anterior Cruciate |
Dr Kate Webster, LaTrobe University - Motion Analysis as an Aid in Assessing Readiness to Return to Sport Following ACL Reconstruction |
Justin Roe, North Sydney Orthopaedics and Sport Medicine Centre- Incidence and Risk Factors for Reinjury after ACL Reconstruction |
1230 - 1400 |
Lunch |
1230 - 1400 |
WORKSHOPS
GPS In Football – Supersession
Dan Dwyer, University of Newcastle
Victory Room South
The Implementation of Gradient Compression Garments as a method for Optimising Recovery
Session Sponsored by:
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1400 - 1600 |
Session 6: Groin Injuries in Football – Deciphering a Conundrum |
Dr Belinda Gabbe, AFL Research Board, Monash University - Hip and Groin Pain in Young AFL Football Players – Pre-existing or a Product of the Change to the Elite Senior Level? |
Carolyn Taylor, LaTrobe University - Developing and Evaluating a Relevant, Comprehensive and Consistent Musculoskeletal Screening Protocol for Australian Football |
Dr Chris Bradshaw, Geelong FC, OPSMC – Groin Pain - Selecting Players for Surgery and Surgery for Players |
Mr John O’Donnell, Orthopaedic Surgeon – An Update on Hip Surgery |
Mr David Young, Melbourne Orthopaedic Group – Recalcitrant Osteitis Pubis |
Dr Donna O’Connor, University of Sydney – Groin Pain in Rugby League – Possible Risk Factors |
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Zuzana Machotka - A Systematic Review of the Literature on the Effectiveness of Exercise Therapy for Groin Pain in Athletes |
Dr Phil Lucas - Obturator Internus Tears in Elite Rugby Players: Clinical Findings, Diagnosis and Prognosis |
1600 - 1630 |
Afternoon Tea
Sponsored by Club Warehouse -
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1630 - 1730 |
Session 7: Concussion in Football – Current Management Guidelines |
| CHAIR - Steve Targett |
Dr Michael Makdissi, AFL Research Board, OPSMC, Concussion in Football: Current Management Guidelines |
Spinal Injuries in Football |
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Dr Martin Raftery, Australian Rugby Union - Understanding and Preventing Catastrophic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in Rugby Union |
1730 - 1830 |
Discipline Group Meetings |
EVENING |
Conference Dinner |
Saturday 25 October
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0700 |
Registration |
0730 - 0830 |
WORKSHOPS
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Splinting the Hand for Football
Karen Fitt, AHTA and Hamish Anderson, Anderson Hand Theraphy
Change Room 2 |
Management of Chronic/Recurrent Hamstring Problems
Craig Purdham, AIS
Change Room 1 |
GPS In Football – Supersession
Dan Dwyer, University of Newcastle
Victory Room South |
0900 - 1030 |
Session 8: Performance Issues, Monitoring and Recovery |
| CHAIRS - David Buttifant & Tim Gabbett |
Stuart Cormack, Essendon High Performance Coach, Monitoring Capacity, Performance and Fatiuge in Football: Current Practice, Future Directions, Challenges |
Dr David Buttifant, Collingwood FC - Does Upper Body Strength and Power of Elite Australian Footballers Change During the Season? |
Dr Tim Gabbett, Brisbane Broncos RLFC - Training-performance Relationship in Rugby League Players |
Dr Tim Gabbett, Brisbane Broncos RLFC - Physiological, Technical and Perceptual Demands of Football |
Darren Burgess, Football Federation of Australia, Assessing the Well Being and Ready-To-Play Status of the Socceroos |
Dr Rob Aughey, Victoria University -Description of Accelerations in Australian Rules Football: A New Insight into High Intensity Activity |
Mandy Ruddock - Reactions to Long-term Injury in the AFL: The Experiences of Professional Australian Football League Players, Professional Coaches and Medical Staff |
Andrew Clark - The Physiological Demands of Professional Soccer - A Comparison of Time-motion Analyses in the Australian and Danish Leagues |
1045 - 1115 |
Morning Tea |
1115 - 1230 |
Session 9: Nutrition, Heat and Hydration in Football |
| CHAIR - Tim Wood |
Session Sponsored by:
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Assoc Prof Robyn Langham, Nephrologist, St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne - Hydration in Sport – The Role of the Kidney |
Michelle Cort, Sports Performance Dietician - Comparison of Sweat Rates and Sweat Composition of Players in Different Football Codes: AFL, Rugby Union, Rugby League and Football (soccer) |
Lisa Sutherland - High Performance Nutrition Across the Football Lifespan – A Pathway for Nutrition Knowledge and Skill Development |
Lisa Sutherland - Development of the Junior Footballer – Is it Worth the Weight? |
Dr Rob Aughey, Victoria University - The Effects of Heat on AFL Players During Matches and Training |
Stephen Bird - Nutritional Knowledge of Professional Rugby League Players (NRL) |
1230 - 1330 |
Closing Session: “The Battle of the Codes” |
| Supporter Comments - AFL Research Board |
Join the argument on which code is best! |
1330 |
Conference Close |
