DATE: February 2013
VENUE: AAMI Park Stadium, Melbourne

This symposium will draw from invited experts and Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre's past and present practitioners who have both published research and years of experience in making such decisions.

Melbourne proudly and perhaps justifiably proclaims itself as the sporting capital. This meeting will be held in Melbourne's newest and most atmospheric sporting arena, AAMI Park, where such decisions on return to play are made on a regular basis under the intense spotlight of a Melbourne derby in the A-league, Melbourne Storm or the newest Super 15 team.

Who should attend?

Sports medicine professionals working with elite teams or athletes where there is a need to make return to play decisions including:

• Sport and exercise physicians
• General practitioners
• Allied Health professionals
• Orthopaedic surgeons and trainees
• Radiologists
• Other Sporting professionals

Programme:

Keynote Speaker

We are proud to announce the key note speaker has now been confirmed as the prestigious and highly regarded Professor Martin Peter Schwellnus from South Africa.

Professor Schwellnus has an impressive profile including recent research and expertise in the following areas:

• Genetic risk factors for sports injuries and medical conditions in athletes
• Epidemiology of illness in athletes
• Diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions in athletes
• Epidemiology of injuries in sport
• Aetiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Exercise Associated Muscle Cramps (EAMC).

The programme will include invited experts including Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre's past and present practitioners who have both published research and hold years of experience in clinical sports medicine, such as:

• Dr Kay Crossley
• Anthony Schache
• Prof Julian Feller
• Hayden Morris
• Randall Cooper

Some of the medical issues, such as concussion and cardiac pathologies have also received some attention lately and we have experts at OPSMC in:

• Dr Michael Makdissi and Ass Prof David Prior.

Aim of the Programme

Often the first question an athlete asks after injury is "when can I get back to sport?" At elite levels the pressure is obviously high but the question is asked at all levels of sport and is a challenge for all clinicians in the field of sport and exercise medicine. Obviously there are a large number of factors surrounding this decision.

The aim is for attendees to have some understanding of the complexity of return to play decisions and the science behind them.

TIME: The symposium will run from approximately 8am to 4.30pm.

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