More than 400 experts in sports medicine, sports science, sports injury prevention and physical activity promotion from around the world will discuss a range of important issues including preventing injury in all levels of sport and how to keep an ageing population active, at this week's Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport.
October13, 2008
Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport
October 16-18
More than 400 experts in sports medicine, sports science, sports injury prevention and physical activity promotion from around the world will attend the Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport (ACSMS), hosted by Sports Medicine Australia, at Hamilton Island from October 16-18.
The Conference will feature international and Australian speakers and sessions focusing on topics such as: the links between changes in lifestyle and rises in obesity (and what to do about it); preventing injury in all levels of sport; how to get the best out of elite athletes in individual and team settings; new approaches to preventing doping and how to keep an ageing population active. Specific sessions will focus on exercise physiology, nutrition and physiology, paediatric exercise science, neuromechanics, recovery, sports psychology, physical activity, environments, ageing and arthritis, diabetes, sports injury and clinical issues. More than 200 research papers will be presented.
Some include: Hip, groin and pubis injuries in AFL players - can we decrease the incidence Transition in participation in sport and physical activity for rural adolescent girls Doctor's perspectives on changing physical activity and diet in CALDB people with diabetes Avoiding the risk of the obesity epidemic being replaced with an injury epidemic Exercise-related transient abdominal pain: is it time to stitch up one of sports most common pains The acute effect of prolonged intense cycling and blackcurrant extract on protein carbonyls in well-trained male cyclists Who meets adolescent activity guidelines? A market segmentation approach How adolescents use their time on holidays The impact of route and incidental walking on waist circumference: A randomised workplace intervention Effects of static stretching in warm-up on repeated sprint performance Overweight children have poor bone strength relative to body weight, placing them at greater risk of forearm fractures Do hard playing fields increase the risk of injury in community level Australian football? Is recovery important?
The major sponsor of the Conference is footwear company Asics.
For more details contact Amanda Wilson, National Media Manager on mobile
0412 224 729, phone 03 9674 8703 or email amanda@vic.sma.org.au
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