Day 1 :
- Sports Medicine and Science | Physical Education Fitness | Sports Medicine and Science |Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation | Sports Injuries, Treatment and Management | Physiotherapy & Physiotherapy Techniques | Neurological Rehabilitation | Yoga & Fitness in Physical therapy
Location: Webinar
Session Introduction
Marc Geenen
Flemish Association of Sports Physicians (SKA), Belgium
Title: Pre-participation hydration test with salivary osmolarity in marathon runners
Time : 10:30-11:00
Biography:
Marc Geenen, MSc (Catholic University of Louvain), studied linguistics and medicine. He is a board member of the Flemish Association of Sports Physicians (SKA) in Belgium and Head of Science with Perform2Achieve, an institute and knowledge center specialized in diagnostic and training-oriented technology for athletes. He is a speaker at international sports-medical conferences, specializing in hydration, RMT and sports-related cardiac arrest. He is also a medical writer who has up till now (co)written five books on medical topics.
Abstract:
More and more people are participating in endurance sports events without fully understanding the risks involved. One of those risks is dehydration. After having performed small scale hydration tests, SKA suspected that many amateur or even professional endurance runners in Flanders and its neighboring are not aware of their hydration and already have too little body water available before the start of a long distance run, despite the proven negative influence of dehydration on sports performance and the potentially serious dangers connected with severe dehydration: accidents due to drowsiness, hyperthermia, arrhythmia, etc. Such a water shortage can no longer be compensated during a match, even if you still drink a lot, and thus weighs on the entire sports performance. SKA wants to corroborate this suspected unawareness of hydration status by testing a relatively large cohort of participants at several marathons.
Biography:
Moeller is a Sports Medicine specialist from Detroit, Michigan, and serves as Sports Medicine Fellowship Program Director with Henry Ford Health. He has over 25 years experience caring for athletes of all ages and levels including high school, collegiate, professional, and Olympic athletes and served as Chief Medical Officer for the US Winter Olympic Team in 2010. He has served on the Boards of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and American College of Sports Medicine. He has been published on a wide variety of topics and has served as editor of two Sports Medicine textbooks.
Abstract:
Apophyseal avulsion fractures of the pelvic region are a possibly underdiagnosed problem in adolescent athletes. Understanding of the growing skeleton and mechanisms of injury for this problem are vital in raising suspicion for diagnosis. Sport participation is the most common cause of injury, with soccer being the most common sport leading to injury. The act of running/sprinting is the most common mechanism, but many potential mechanisms exist. Any of the pelvic apophyses may avulse, but it is most common are the anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS), anterior superior iliac spine, and ischial tuberosity; avulsions of the pubic symphysis and greater tuberosity are the rarest. Males are twice as likely as females to experience pelvic region avulsion fracture and are generally older at the time of injury regardless of the area involved. Males are significantly more likely to experience AIIS fractures, but females are significantly more likely to experience iliac crest avulsion fractures. Conservative treatment is successful in most cases, and kids are commonly cleared to return to advance their sport participation. Surgery may be indicated in some cases but is usually not necessary. Duration of treatment tends to be shorter in males, but not to a significant degree. Delays in diagnosis are not unusual and may be due to a variety of reasons. Basketball is the sport, and the ischial tuberosity is the location most associated with diagnostic delay. While delay in diagnosis does not appear to add significant time to the duration of treatment, overall time from diagnosis to clearance for return to play activities may be significantly increased.