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Professor Nicola Maffulli, CentreLead, QMUL Centre for Sportsand Exercise Medicine (CSEM),has launched a programme ofevents in association with DJOEducation that aims to providesenior UK and overseas SEMpractitioners, including Fellowsand Members of the UK andIrish Faculties of Sport andExercise Medicine, with a uniqueforum of high level, interactiveinterdisciplinary meetings.

Professor Maffulli states: “It isvital to have greater interactionbetween the different branchesof SEM and senior practitionersforming the teams supportingelite athletes. This series willprovide events that meet theCME needs of these seniorpractitioners.” He adds: “Theseevents will be delivered as aseries of quarterly meetings,each of which will be limited to50 attendees, have interdiscipli-nary presentations, and beaccredited for CPD by theFaculty of Sports and ExerciseMedicine via the Royal Collegeof Surgeons of Edinburgh. Theinput of experts from differentSEM backgrounds will add to the balance and educational value ofeach meeting.”

The inaugural meeting was held on 11th December 2009 andattracted an international group of 50 leading SEM Practitioners.Held at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Chandos House, the meet-ing tackled Hamstring Injuries in the morning and Hip Pathology inthe afternoon. Following Professor Maffulli’s welcome, the first ofthe five speakers on Hamstring Injuries was the distinguishedSenior Lecturer and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr JohnKing, founder of London’s CSEM and Past Chairman of the BritishAssociation of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM). He present-ed on ‘Hamstring problems: setting the scene’. Following this werepresentations from Consultant Radiologist, Dr Otto Chan:‘Advanced Imaging and Image guided techniques in hamstringinjuries’, Dr Wayne Diesel, Physiotherapist and Head of MedicalServices at Tottenham Hotspur: ‘The view from the bench: a prac-tical approach to hamstring injuries’, Dr Dylan Morrissey, SeniorClinical Lecturer and Consultant Physiotherapist at QMUL: ‘Muscleinjury of the hamstrings and high density surface electromyography

– what new information could we learn?’ and Dr RobChakraverty, UK AthleticsTeam Doctor: ‘State of the art inInjection Therapies forHamstring Injuries’.

The afternoon session startedwith a presentation ‘ArthroscopicManagement of Hip Problems’from the eminent hip surgeon,Mr Richard Villar. Following thiswere presentations by Dr DavidElias, Consultant Radiologist,King’s College Hospital: ‘Recentdevelopments in hip injury imag-ing in athletes’, Mr VikasKhanduja, Consultant OrthopaedicSurgeon, Nuffield HealthCambridge Hospital andProfessor Ernest Schilders,Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon,Bradford Teaching Hospitals/Leeds Metropolitan University:‘Femoroacetabular Impingement –An Overview’, Mr OresteBasso, sports surgeon:‘Resurfacing – the future’ andProfessor Ernest Schilders:‘Rehabilitation following hiparthroscopy: horses for courses’.

Both morning and afternoonsessions ended with lively thirty

minute question sessions.

This first meeting was positively received. Mr Neil Black, UKALead - Sports Medicine & Science, said: “The morning session’sspeakers brought the audience rapidly up to date with the mostrecent thoughts regarding functional contribution, classification,treatment and rehabilitation techniques highlighting the challengeof evidence based versus experiential learning. The thought that wemay soon be able to understand more clearly the functional contri-bution of different parts of the hamstring muscle to a movementpattern, to clearly understand the key components guiding the mostcomplete and speedy recovery process and therefore to createbespoke evidence based treatment and rehabilitation interventionsis very exciting.”

Dr Mukul Agarwal, Sports & Musculoskeletal Physician atBlackheath Hospital and BUPA Wellness, commented: “An event atthis level has been long overdue and it’s good to see that there areso many SEM practitioners working at a high enough level to get a

Sport & Exercise Medicine forLondon 2012

A new series of high level interdisciplinary education events for Senior SEM PractitionersA QMUL-CSEM and DJO Education Initiative

Meeting organiser Professor Nicola Maffulli and Mr Richard Villar,Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, who lectured on hiparthroscopy

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room full of people to have thiskind of meeting – it wouldn’thave happened a few years ago.The quality of face to face com-munication in a room with a lot ofthoughts can’t be replicatedonline, and this first meeting hastaken topics and quality of dis-cussion to a new place - I thinkthe format of short sharp talksand discussion time really works.”

Dr Nick Webborn, CMO forParalympics GB, added: “Thestandard of speakers was excel-lent and addressed the issuesthat we all face at a practicallevel but also discussed thefuture potential for enhancingour understanding and improv-ing of the management of theseinjuries. Without doubt, this is anideal forum for SEM practition-ers to get together and debatethese issues. A series at this level is a ‘must do’ for all SEM practi-tioners CPD.”

Mr John Hardy, Consultant Surgeon in Orthopaedics and Traumain the UK, said that the value of “Sport and Exercise Medicine forLondon 2012” was that the curriculum was obviously attracting pro-fessionals in the management of sports related pathology from allover the UK and overseas into London where there was aninevitable sharing of the best in evidenced based medicine and sur-gery. He said: “This is exactly the program we need to be able tooffer the Olympic Competitors the best in health care in no fewerthan two and a half years time.”

Bahamas-based sports & exercise medicine practitioner, AnnabelCarter, welcomed the initiative: “Coming from afar, and working inrelative isolation with respect to Sport and Exercise Medicine, Ineed to make sure that I attend meetings that are cutting edge, rel-evant and keep me in contact with my peers. I thoroughly enjoyedthe inaugural meeting and would enthusiastically look to attend

every meeting if it wasn’t for the chasm of the Atlantic Ocean.”

The next meeting will take place on 19th March 2010 at ChandosHouse and will focus on Pre-participation Screening and Low BackPain Management. Speakers will include Professor Giorgio Galantifrom Florence, Dr Mike Loosemore, Southern Medical lead for theEIS and CMO for Team England at the Commonwealth Games, DrIan Beasley, Doctor for the Senior England Squad, Dr Bryan English,CMO Chelsea FC, Dr Len Shapiro, elite sports cardiologist, DrSanjay Sharma, CMO, London Marathon, Mr Craig Ranson, SeniorPhysiotherapist at UKA, Dr Colin Natali, Sports Surgeon, Dr DavidPerry, Consultant Rheumatologist and Lead Clinician at Barts andThe London Centre for SEM (TBC), Mr Jonathan Betser, ConsultantSports Medicine Osteopath and Chairman of OSCA.

Programme and booking forms are available from Barry Hill atbarryghill@hotmail.com

Subsequent 2010 meetings are scheduled for 18th June (Diabetesin the Athlete and Injury Surveillance in Olympic Sports) and 24th

September (Tendinopathies).

Some of the lecturers of the inaugural meeting of Sports &Exercise Medicine for London 2012. Standing (left to right):

Mr Oreste Basso, Dr Wayne Diesel, Prof Nicola Maffulli(Meeting Organiser), Dr Otto Chan. Sitting (left to right): Dr

David Elias, Dr Rob Chakraverty, Dr Dylan Morrissey

Lunch, a time when the delegates and the lecturerscould mingle together

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