| ACSP Annual Conference - Program |
| Wednesday 22 October 2008 |
| 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 Ruth Highet - Autologous Blood Injections |
| Dr Chris Milne - Sclerosant Therapy |
| Dr Andrew Jowett - Shockwave Therapy |
| 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 |
| Chair: Dr John Best |
| Code of Ethics Workshop - Chaired by Dr John Best |
| 1645 - 1700 |
MOPS Update - Dr Andrew Garnham |
| 1700 - 1800 |
AGM |
| 1930 - 1200 |
ACSP Fellowship Dinner |
| Thursday 23 October 2008 |
| 0800 |
Registration |
| 0900 - 1030 |
Session 5 |
| Chair: Steve Reid |
| Dr Gary Zimmerman - Two Challenging Cases |
| Dr Dale Speedy - Exercise Associated Hyponatraemia Consensus Statement |
| Dr Ra Durie - TU TOA Project Overview - Giving Back tthe 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 TBC |
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Dr Paul Verrills - Lumbar Spine Update and Practical Workshop on Interpretation of Lumbar Spine MRIs |
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Dr Abdullah Omari - Popliteal Artery Entrapment in Athletes |
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Dr Andrew Rotstein - MRI of Elbow Sporting Injuries |
| 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 |
| Welcome – Andrew
Jowett |
| Setting the scene - A
Model for Injury Reduction in Football – Dr Hugh Seward |
| Keynote Lecture –
Johnny Huard (Click here for bio) |
| Epidemiology of Football
Injuries |
- Examining Injury Profiles Across the Four Major Football
Codes in Australia – Similarities and Differences
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- Dr John Orchard, Sydney Roosters RLFC (AFL Injury Survey)
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- Dr Donna O’Connor, NRL (Rugby League)
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- Dr Steve Targett (Rugby Union)
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- Dr Jeff Steinweg (Football Federation Australia)
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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 |
| Keynote Lecture –
Johnny Huard |
| 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 |
| Dr Karen Holzer, Sports
Physician, OPSMC – Exercise-induced Bronchospasm in Football |
| Dr Ken Fitch, Australian
Sports Drug Medical Advisory Commission – Endurance Training
as a Cause of Exercise-induced Bronchospasm in Football |
| 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 - The Role of Cardiac Screening in Sport |
| 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 |
| 0700 |
Registration |
| 0730 - 0830 |
WORKSHOPS |
| 0900 - 1030 |
Session
4: Upper Limb Injuries in Football |
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Greg Hoy, Melbourne Orthopaedic Group
– In-season Management of Shoulder Instability in AFL
Football |
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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 |
| 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 – Knee injury Prevention |
| Hayden Morris, The Park
Clinic - Graft Choices and Surgery |
| Tim Whitehead, Orthosport
Victoria – Double-bundle Grafts in Football |
| Matthew Liptak, Orthopaedics
SA – Long-term Outcomes of ACL Injuries in Football |
| Dr Kate Webster, LaTrobe
University |
| Justin Roe, North Sydney Orthopaedics and Sport Medicine Centre- Incidence
and Risk Factors for Reinjury after ACL Reconstruction |
| 1230
- 1400 |
Lunch |
| 1230 - 1400 |
WORKSHOPS |
| 1400 - 1600 |
Session
6: Groin Injuries in Football – Deciphering a Conundrum |
| Dr Belinda Gabbe, AFL
Research Board, Monash University - Epidemiology of Groin Injuires |
| Carolyn Taylor,
LaTrobe University - Screening for Young Players |
| Dr Chris Bradshaw, Geelong
FC, OPSMC – 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 – Osteitis Pubis |
| Dr Donna O’Connor,
University of Sydney – Groin Pain in Rugby League –
Risk Factors |
| Trish Wisby-Roth, Physiotherapist – Rehabilitation Concepts for Groin Pain |
| 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 |
| 1630 - 1730 |
Session
7: Concussion in Football – Current Management Guidelines |
| Dr Michael Makdissi,
AFL Research Borad, OPSMC |
| Spinal Injuries in Football |
| Dr Steve Targett – A New Zealand Intervention Programme |
| Dr Martin Raftery, Hurstville Orthosports Clinic Sydney -Understanding and Preventing Catastrophic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in Rugby Union |
| EVENING |
Conference Dinner |
| Saturday
25 October |
| 0700 |
Registration |
| 0730 - 0830 |
WORKSHOPS |
| 0900 - 1030 |
Session 8: Performance
Issues, Monitoring and Recovery |
| Stuart Cormack, Essendon High Performance Coach |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dr Jason Berry, Essendon FC/University of Ballarat - Knowledge
Building: Applied Research to High Performance Best Practice |
| Andrew Clark - The Physiological
Demands of Professional Soccer - A Comparison of Time-motion
Analyses in the Australian and Danish Leagues |
| 1030
- 1100 |
Morning Tea |
| 1100 - 1230 |
Session 9: Nutrition,
Heat and Hydration in Football |
Session Sponsored by:
 |
| 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? |
| Stephen Bird - Nutritional
Knowledge of Professional Rugby League Players (NRL) |
| 1230 - 1330 |
Closing Session: “The Battle
of the Codes” |
| Join the argument on
which code is best! |
| 1330
- 1430 |
Lunch |
| 1430 |
Conference Close |