8th Scandinavian Congress of Medicine and Science in Sports
9–12 November 2006, Sports Institute of Finland, Vierumaki, Finland
Organised by the Finnish Society of Sports Medicine and the Finnish Society for Research in Sports and Physical Education.
Further details: Finnish Society for Research in Sport and Physical Education, Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, FI‐00250, Finland; Tel: 358 10 778 6605; Fax: +35810 778 6619; Email: eeva.tulisalo@lts.fi; Website: www.scandianviansortsmedicine.org
Heidelberg Shoulder Convention 2006 – strategies in shoulder arthroplasty
10−11 November 2006, Heidelberg, Germany
Topics include current concepts, strategies and controversies in shoulder arthroplasty: indications and techniques for anatomic‐, reversed‐, trauma‐ and CUP‐designs.
Further details: Katrin Volkland, Krautgartenstr. 30, 65205 Wiesbaden, Germany. Tel: +49 611 97716‐0; Fax: +49 611 97716‐16; Email: info@intercongress.de; Website: www.hsc2006.org
International Hip Arthroscopy Meeting
17−18 November 2006, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Topics include: live arthroscopies; examining and imaging techniques including MR arthrography; hip arthroscopy techniques with and without traction; and groin problems, impingement, open hip surgery.
Further details: INTERCONGRESS GmbH, Karlsruher Str. 3, 79108 Freiburg, Germany; Tel: +49 761 69699‐0; Fax: +49 761 69699‐11; Email: services.freiburg@intercongress.de; Congress homepage: www.orthopaedie‐homburg.de; Online registration: www.registration.intercongress.de
6th World Congress on Science & Football
17 January 2007, Sirene Golf Hotel, Belek, Antalya, Turkey
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 September 2006
Further details: Surhat Muniroglu, Ankara University, School of Physical Education and Sport, Ankara, Turkey; Tel: +90 312 2233163; Email: munirogl@pharmacy.ankara.edu.tr
Progresses in Prevention and Treatment of Sports Pathologies
19 January 2007, Turin, Italy
Further details: Gian Luigi Canata. Tel: +39 011 5817566; Fax: +39 011 55805014; Email: canata@ortosport.it
Sport Med '07
26 January 2007, Toronto, Canada
The conference is aimed at sport medicine physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists and kinesiologists.
Abstracts submission deadline: 17 November 2006.
Further details:www.oma.org
3rd Leeds Sports Imaging Course
29−30 January 2007, Leeds, UK
This 2‐day course is aimed at both radiologists and clinicians that are involved in sports imaging. The course will comprise an imaging and clinical overview of all relevant joint, bone and soft tissue sporting injuries. Additional sections will be included covering principles of postoperative imaging, image guided diagnostic and therapeutic intervention.
The faculty will comprise internationally recognised skeletal imaging and clinical experts from the UK, Europe and North America who will deliver lectures and lead sessional discussions. Each session will begin with a clinical lecture that will allow the subsequent imaging lectures to be placed in context. All aspects of imaging will be discussed with staging and prognosis of sporting injuries emphasised. Therapeutic image guided intervention using fluoroscopy, CT and ultrasound will also be demonstrated.
Eleven category one CPD credits awarded.
Further details: Carol Bailey, Course co‐ordinator, Radiology Dept, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Chapeltown Road, Leeds LS7 4SA, UK; Tel: +44 (0) 113 3924927; Fax: +44 (0) 113 3924550; Email: carol.bailey@leedsth.nhs.uk
ACSP Clinical Sports: Upper Limb
3–4 March 2007, Sydney, Australia
Further details:www.acsp.org.au
III International Congress: People, Sport and Health
19‐21 April 2007, Saint‐Petersburg, Russia
The congress will be carried out under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, under the patronage of the European Union and the International Olympic Committee at cooperation with governmental, scientific and leading social organisations.
Further details: Email: sport‐health@home.ru; Website: sport‐health.ru
17th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS)
25−29 October 2007, Canberra and Melbourne, Australia
Co‐hosted by three of Australia's elite institutions—The Australian Ballet School, Australian Dance Council (Ausdance) and the Australian Sports Commission—IADMS works to improve dancers' health, well being and performance through the encouragement and promotion of dance medicine and science. Outstanding international researchers, practitioners and educators will offer insight into the latest developments in dance medicine and science. Activities of relevance to dancers, dance teachers and health professionals will include presentations and movement sessions on topics such as:
Training efficiency
Nutrition
Dance wellness programmes
Psychology
Scientific research
Practitioner wisdom
Injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation
Surgical and non‐surgical interventions
Further details: Email: janetkarin@australianballetschool.com.au.
For information about other IADMS conferences and publications contact
ConferenceDirector@iadms.org or www.iadms.org.
6th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain
7−10 November 2007, Barcelona, Spain
This global congress invites practitioners, academics, researchers and policy makers from all continents and from clinical areas as wide ranging as medicine, physiotherapy, chiropractic, biomechanics, osteopathy, manual therapy, exercise therapy and exercise science,
myotherapy, orthopaedic and neurosurgery and sports medicine.
Further details: Call for papers: www.worldcongresslbp.com; Information: info@worldcongresslbp.com
The sixth international conference on Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics
14–16 November 2007
Burton Manor, Burton, Wirral, Cheshire, UK
Further details: Congress Secretariat: Tel: 0151 231 4249; Email: G.Atkinson@ljmu.ac.uk
2007 World Conference on Doping in Sport
15–17 November 2007, Madrid, Spain
Further details: Online registration: www.wada‐ama.org