International Sports Science + Sports Medicine Conference 2010
This conference aims to deliver Europe's premier sports medicine and sports science conference in the build up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond and looking forward to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The conference is being held in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19-21 August 2010.
The programme will consist of two days during which parallel sessions in Sports Medicine and Sports Science will run. Each day will feature one plenary Session open to all conference delegates. On day three, a series of presentations will translate the medicine and science into practical messages for coaches, team doctors, and sports science support staff.
Featured highlights include plenary sessions on:
- Optimising performance in cycling
- Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and obesity: Where to from here?
- Talent ID in sport
- The new UK Anti-Doping Agency: What is it and what does it do?
- Biomarkers for assessment of nutrition and hydration status
- What's new in dietary supplements?
- Confidentiality issues in professional sport
Sport medicine symposia on:
- When can an athlete safely return to play?
- Medical planning for the 2012 Olympic Games
- Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) in tendon and muscle therapy
- CNS-Acting Drugs: What is allowed, what is not, and why?
- Top ten questions in sports medicine
Sports science symposia on:
- New approaches to endurance training
- Measuring and monitoring stress and its effects on health and performance
- Exercise and health: What are the mechanisms?
- Peaking at the right time
For more information and to book your place, visit the ISSSMC website.