The XXIV International Conference on Sports Rehabilitation and Traumatology was held in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. The Conference was about player care, that is the most important aspect to be considered when talking about sport.
This topic can be analysed from many different points of view and the Conference Football Medicine Strategies for Player Care covered all the topics of interest for every practitioner and party involved in the management of and delivery of care to professional and grassroots players (orthopaedic surgeons, sports medicine physicians, physiatrists, radiologists, chiropractors, osteopaths, physiotherapists, athletic trainers, masseurs, coach team and team managers).
In order to give a complete vision of the challenge and to deliver a real contribution to the spread of good health practice in the world, the programme as divided into 4 main areas of interest: Football Medicine, Football Rehabilitation, Football Orthopaedics, Football Science.
The Conference was organised in three days. The last one was dedicated to the 3rd Science of Football Summit, whose title was Knowledge without Borders: News from Other Sports. The Summit focussed on the discussion of other sports’ innovations on the prevention of overtraining and injuries and post-competition recovery strategies.
The Landscape
Chairs: D’Hooghe, Michel (BEL) – Della Villa, Stefano (ITA)
FIFA World Cup 2014: medical report – D’Hooghe, Michel (BEL)
Football medicine: the landscape – Dvorak, Jiri (SUI)
Football orthopaedics: the landscape – Mandelbaum, Bert (USA)
Football rehabilitation: the landscape – Batty, Phil (UK)
Football research: UEFA Champions League – Ekstrand, Jan (SWE)
Surgical solutions for hip and groin pain
Chairs: Sarimo, Janne (FIN) – Tsoukas, Dimitrios (GRE)
Imaging of hip and groin pathologies – Blease, Simon (UK)
Indications for hip arthroscopy in the footballer – Griffin, Damian (UK)
Surgical options for recalcitrant groin injuries – Schilders, Ernest (UK)
Quick and safe return to sports after sport hernia repair – Muschaweck, Ulrike (GER)
Treatment options for rectus femuris and proximal adductor avulsion – Sarimo, Janne (FIN)
ESSKA SYMPOSIUM – Prevention, evolution and surgical solution for early osteoarthritis in footballers
Chairs: Denti, Matteo (ITA) – Ekstrand, Jan (SWE)
Classification of early osteoarthritis – Mayr, Hermann (GER)
Prevention of early osteoarthritis – Denti, Matteo (ITA)
Potential evolution of early osteoarthritis after anterior cruciate reconstruction – Denti M (ITA)
Treatment: cartilage treatment and return to football – Espregueira-Mendes, Joao (POR)
Treatment: meniscal transplantation and return to football – Monllau, Juan Carlos (ESP)
Treatment: osteotomy and return to football – Seil, Romain (LUX)
Stress Fractures and bone bruising in footballers
Chairs: Forssblad, Magnus (SWE) – Rosa, Donato (ITA)
Epidemiology of stress fractures in football – Hallén, Anna (SWE)
Managing stress fractures in football – Brukner, Peter (AUS)
Imaging and healing progression of post traumatic bone bruising – Berruto, Massimo (ITA)
Is there a specific treatment for bone bruising? – Marcacci, Maurilio (ITA)
Clinical relationship between bone bruising, ligament injuries and cartilage defects – Seil, Romain (LUX)
Return to sport post ankle injuries
Chairs: Calder, James (UK) – Pereira, Hélder (POR)
Ankle injuries in footballers – Freschi, Marco (ITA)
Anterior ankle impingement in footballers – D’Hooghe, Pieter (QAT)
Osteochondral autograft transfer system technique – Kennedy, John (USA)
Arthroscopic treatment for talar osteochondral defects – Kerkhoffs, Gino (NED)
Return to play after ankle injuries – Andersen, Thor Einar (NOR)
Medical emergencies in football
Chairs: Dvorak, Jiri (SUI) – Pelliccia, Antonio (ITA)
Personal reflections from the Muamba Incident – Tobin, Jonathan (UK)
Sudden death management – Kramer, Efraim (RSA)
Prevention in sports cardiology – Pelliccia, Antonio (ITA)
The FIFA world-wide registry of sudden cardiac deaths and arrest – Scharhag, Jurgen (GER)
The right management of concussion – Feddermann, Nina (SUI)
Epidemiology and prevention
Chairs: Bahr, Roald (NOR) – Pedrinelli, André (BRA)
Worldwide prevention programme updates – Bizzini, Mario (SUI)
Teaching the coach how to implement a prevention programme – Eiles, Matthias (GER)
Art of communication: a prevention programme – Stentler, Leonne (NED)
FIFA 11 for health update – Fuller, Colin (UK)
Playing football to prevent chronic diseases – Krustrup, Peter (UK)
Football topics in internal medicine
Chairs: Cowie C (UK), Pigozzi F (ITA)
Nutrition and hydration – Medina, Daniel (ESP)
Supplements and sport drinks – Morton, James (UK)
Prevention and monitoring by blood exams – Banfi, Giuseppe (ITA)
Antidoping in sport – Kemp, Simon (UK)
Respiratory illness in the footballer – Schwellnuss, Martin (RSA)
Hamstring injuries
Chairs: Benazzo, Francesco (ITA), Peterson, Lars (SWE)
Have we made any progress? – Brukner, Peter (AUS)
Can we prevent hamstring injuries? – Thorborg, Kristian (DEN)
Predicting return to play after hamstring injury – Diesel, Wayne (UK)
Why so many hamstring injuries occur? – Askling, Carl (SWE)
Creating structure for successful hamstring rehabilitation – Stride, Matthew (UK)
Tendon injuries
Chairs: Ferretti, Andrea (ITA) – Schneider, Christian (GER)
Tendinopathy: what is the pathology? – Maffulli, Nicola (ITA)
Imaging tendinopathy – Alfredson, Hakan (SWE)
Injection therapies in tendinopathy – Khan, Karim (CAN/QAT)
The mechanotherapy model – Cook, Jill (AUS)
Recovery from tendon injury: managing return to performance – Knowles, B (USA)
Groin pain and football
Chairs: Kemp Steve (UK) – Smith, Graham (UK)
Report from the Groin Pain Consensus Conference 2014 – Weir, Adam (QAT)
Screening and prevention – Gimpel, Mo (UK)
The role of biomechanics in groin pain in footballers – Franklyn-Miller, Andrew (IRE)
Exercise treatment of footballers with groin injury – always first choice? – Holmich, Per (DEN)
Non operative treatment options for recalcitrant groin injuries in footballers – Silvers, Holly (USA)
The impact of ACL surgery in footballer’s career
Chairs: Denti, Matteo (SUI) – Mandelbaum, Bert (USA)
Time-trends in ACL injury rate in men’s professional football – Waldén, Markus (SWE)
The story and the rational behind the “accelerated rehabilitation" concept – Shelbourne, Donald (USA)
Return to competitive sports: scientific evidence – Zaffagnini, Stefano (ITA)
When and why is it safe to return to sport? Biological and functional considerations – Fu, Freddie (USA)
How to manage failed ACL reconstruction in football players – Neyret, Philippe (FRA)
ACL surgery in the football player
Chiars: Fu, Freddie (USA) – Zorzi, Claudio (ITA)
Innovation and new research in ACL surgery – Haddad, Fares (UK)
Managing ACL of professional footballers, from injury, through surgery, to return to sport – Ball, Simon (UK)
Insufficient control of rotational stability following ACL reconstruction in footballers – Sonnery-Cottet, Berrand (FRA)
Treatment of multiple ligament knee injuries – Shelbourne, Donald (USA)
How to complete rehabilitation and football reconditioning – Zanobbi, Marco (ITA)
Meniscus and cartilage surgery in footballers
Chairs: Erggelet, Christoph (SUI) – Kon, Elizaveta (ITA)
Knee injuries and management of cartilage damages in footballers – Angele, Peter (GER)
Meniscus repair and transplant – Spalding, Tim (UK)
Which is the best surgical option for cartilage in footballers? – Espregueira-Mendes, Joao (POR)
Newest generation chondrocyte implantation – Mithoefer, Kai (USA)
Rehabilitation guidelines in football players – Tsapralis, Kyriakos (ITA)
Managing low back pain in the football player
Chairs: Hutson, Mike (UK) – Wotherspoon, Mike (UK)
Low back pain and football – Edwards, Tony (NZL)
Acute back pain on the field – what to do? – Eder, Klaus (GER)
Classification and treatment algorithm for spondilolysis – Mayer, Michael (GER)
Treatment strategy in lumbar disc herniation – Fahy, Damian (UK)
Conservative treatment and sensorimotor stabilisation – Meier, Hannspeter (GER)
Mental aspects
Chairs: Jaques, Rod (UK) – Walker, Natalie (UK)
Mental factors and team success – Kruger, Pieter (UK)
Mental coaching in football – Sas, Kristof (BEL)
Mental illness in professional player – Gouttebarge, Vincent (FRA)
FIFA research into mental health – Junge, Astrid (SUI)
Sports psychology perspective – Marcacci, Thomas (ITA)
Round table: the communication around the player
Chairs: English, Bryan (UK) – Sas, Kristof (BEL)
Participants: O’Driscoll G (UK), Williams, John (UK); Strudwick, Tony (UK); Bascherini, Luca (UK)
The use of USI and MRI in sports orthopaedics
Chairs: Padron, Mario (ESP) – Theos, Christos (GRE)
Correlation of imaging and physical examination in sports injuries – Ntagiopoulos, Panagiotis (GRE)
MRI in acute football injuries – Healy, Jerry (UK)
Can you really trust an MRI scan? – McDermott, Ian (UK)
Advanced imaging techniques – Welsh, Goetz (GER)
Ultrasound guided interventions – Babar, Syed (UK)
Ageing of football players
Chairs: Ardèvol, Jordi (ESP) – Delcogliano, Antonio (ITA)
The potential consequence of a joint injury – Batt, Mark (UK)
Nonoperative Mangement of Knee Osteoarthritis – Shelbourne, Donald (USA)
Playing sports after knee replacement – Margheritini, Fabrizio (ITA)
New technology in partial and total knee replacement – Nathwani, Dinesh (UK)
The muscle of ageing football players – Narici, Marco (UK)
Functional recovery of muscle strength
Chairs: Papacostas, Emanuel (GRE) – Snyder-Mackler, Lynn (USA)
Neuromuscular training in football – Melegati, Gianluca (ITA)
The deceleration exercises – Knowles, Bill (USA)
The “functional strength" concept – Clancy, David (IRE)
Quadricep/hamstring assessment of female footballers – Servien, Elvire (FRA)
The contribution from osteopath and chiropractic specialists – Hearle, Leah (UK)
The power of exercise in rehabilitation
Chairs: Danelon, Furio (ITA) – Lewin, Gary (UK)
Combination of exercises in the pool and in the gym in football reconditioning – Boldrini, Lorenzo (ITA)
Proprioceptive and neuromuscular exercises – Hambly, Karen (UK)
Football specific tests and exercises – Buckthorpe, Matthew (UK)
Effect of exercise in hip and knee osteoarthritis – Roos, Ewa (DEN)
Effect of exercise in the ACL conservative treatment – Snyder-Mackler, Lynn (USA)
The organisation of rehabilitation at top European clubs
Chairs: Beasley, Ian (UK) – Volpi, Piero (ITA)
Real Madrid FC – Olmo, Jesus (ESP)
AC Milan – Freschi, Marco (ITA)
FC Bayern Munich – Ueblacker, Peter (GER)
Juventus FC – Tencone, Fabrizio (ITA)
Chelsea FC – Chelsea Medical Department (UK)
Arsenal FC – Lewin, Colin (UK)
Ther use of PRP during the rehabilitation process
Chairs: Cugat, Ramon (ESP) – Musahl, Volker (USA)
The use of PRP in tendon injuries – Filardo, Giuseppe (ITA)
The use of PRP in muscle injuries – Reurink, Gustaaf (NED)
The use of PRP in knee injuries – Gobbi, Alberto (ITA)
Regenerative medicine: the USA experience – Sampson, Steve (USA)
PRP: the Asian experience – Eirale, Cristiano (QAT)
Keynote. Managing player load
Chair: Roi, Giulio Sergio (ITA)
Monitoring player load: separating the facts from the myth – Burgess, Darren (AUS)
Monitoring to prevent overtraining and injuries
Chairs: Brukner, Peter (AUS) – Driscoll, Gary (UK)
Overtraining in team sports – Meeusen, Romain (BEL)
Blood tests for detecting overtraining – Banfi, Giuseppe (ITA)
Heart rate measures to monitor training status in athletes: tools or toys? – Le Meur, Yann (FRA)
Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) – Rampinini, Ermanno (ITA)
What monitoring is done by elite clubs? – Forsythe, Shad (UK)
Training & injury revention: news from other sports
Chairs: Batty, Phil (UK) – Khan, Karim (QAT)
Track & field – English, Bryan (UK)
Basketball – Grantham, Nick (UK)
American football – Gera, Steve (USA)
Rugby – Cook, Christian (UK)
Keynote. Musculoskeletal screening
Chair: English, Bryan (UK)
Is there any benefit in musculoskeletal screening to reduce the risk of injuries? – Bahr, Roald (NOR)
Where can football learn rom other sports (round table)
Chair: Burt, Jason (UK)
Participants: Allardyce, Sam (UK) – Burt, Jason (UK) – Brukner, Peter (AUS) – Batty, Phil (UK) – Burgess, Darren (AUS) – English, Bryan (UK)
Post competition recovery strategies
Chairs: Buckthorpe, Matthew (UK) – Drust, Barry (UK)
Active or passive recovery? – Bangsbo, Jens (DEN)
Quality of sleep – Halson, Shona (AUS)
Immersion techniques – Leeder, Jonathan (UK)
Nutrition – Maughan, Ron (UK)
Massage & stretching – Dupont, Gregory (FRA)
Orthopaedic medicine in football: ACL
Chairs: Axe, Michael (USA) – De Carli, Angelo (ITA)
ACL reconstruction in football players with pretensioning and preconditioning of the hamstring graft – Tigani D, Strazzari A, Calabrò T, Massimi S, Carboni L, Cialdella S (Bologna, Italy)
In-vivo assessment of rotatory knee laxity after ACL reconstruction with inertial sensors in football players – Marcheggiani Muccioli GM, Lopomo NF, Signorelli C, Bonanzinga T, Grassi A, Raggi F, Roberti Di Sarsina T, Giunchi D, Marcacci M, Zaffagnini S (Bologna, Italy)
Smartphone application in ACL deficient knee – Ferretti A, Valeo L, Mazza D, Conteduca F, Giovannetti G, Iorio P, Muliere L, Iorio R (Rome, Italy)
How do football players after ACLR compare to normative single-legged hop data? – Arundale A, Wellsandt E, Snyder-Mackler L (Newark, USA)
The relationship between hop distance and control in ACLR players – Marshall B, King E, Gore S, Holland É, Travers S, Franklyn-Miller A, Moran K, Strike S, Falvey E (Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdon; Melbourne, Australia)
Cut mechanics after ACL reconstruction – O’Malley E, Richter C, Marshall B, Holland É, King E, Moran R, Franklyn-Miller A, Falvey É (Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia)
ACL injuries in professional football – first results of the national German ACL registry in football – Krutsch W, Zellner J, Nerlich M, Angele P (Regensburg, Germany)
Rehabilitation & return to play
Chairs: Bianchedi, Diana (ITA) – Millson, Helen (UK)
Athletic groin pain: a biomechanical rehabilitation approach to rehabilitation – King E, Gore S, Franklyn-Miller A, Marshall B, Moran K, Strike S, Falvey E (Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingsom; Melbourne, Australia)
A pilot study investigating the effect of a dynamic orthosis upon athletic groin pain – Sawle L, Freeman J, Marsden J (Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Athletic pubalgia in football players: return to sports activities, a 21 year study – Piskopakis A, Konstantinidis K, Psycharis I, Pavlidis L, Nikolaou P, Piskopakis N (Athens, Greece)
An interval kicking progression for return to football – Arundale A, Silvers H, Logerstedt D, Rojas J, Snyder-Mackler L (Newark, Santa Monica, Commerce City, USA)
Return to pre-injury level of competitive sports following ACL reconstruction in competitive football players – Musahl V, Yabroudi MA, Lynch A, Muller B, Lai CL, Oostdyk A, Fu F, Harner C, Irrgang J (Pittsburgh, USA)
Inferior heel pain in soccer players: retrospective study with proposal of guidelines for treatment – Saggini R, Migliorini M, Di Stefano A, Bellomo RG (Chieti, Italy)
Multimodal evidence-based tendon therapy for patella tendinopathy in professional German bundesliga soccer players. A ten year perspective – Knobloch K (Hannover, Germany)
The use of plantar reflexology and pressopuncture in footballers care – Tohaneanu AAA, Rusu L, Dragomir M, Tohaneanu LL (Craiova, Romania)
A novel soft-tissue technique for increasing lower extremity range of motion in football – Markovic G (Zagreb, Croatia)
Prevention through functional assessment in football
Chairs: Narici, Marco (UK) – Roi, Giulio Sergio (ITA)
What does a comprehensive periodic health evaluation in football players detect? – Bakken A, Targett S, Bere T, Adamuz MC, Tol JL, Whiteley R, Wilson MG, Khan KM, Witvrouw E, Bahr R (Doha, Qatar; Oslo, Norway)
Large hip adduction strength increase with the Copenhagen adduction exercise – Ishøi L, Sørensen CN, Kaae NM, Jørgensen LB, Holmich P, Serner A (Copenhagen, Denmark; Doha, Qatar)
Eccentric hamstring strength and injuries in elite soccer: a prospective study – Timmins RG, Bourne MN, Shield AJ, Williams MD, Opar DA (Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia; Pontypridd, United Kingdom)
Electromyographic analysis of hamstring exercises – Shield A, Bourne M, Opar D, Williams M (Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia; Pontypridd, United Kingdom)
Isokinetic leg flexors/extensors evaluations of male and female soccer players – Grazzini G, Martelli G (Poggibonsi, Italy)
Accumulated workloads and injury risk in elite youth football players using Global Positioning System technology – Bowen L, Li FX (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Football player role performance during the season: on-the-field evaluation by means of Global Positioning System technology – Fioraso M, Raggi M, Garofalo P, Mantovani M (Carpi, Italy)
Effects of functional soccer training on uneven ground on lower limbs’ dynamic stability in young soccer players – Mrozińska N, Plenzler M, Mierzwińska A, Korbolewska O, Mejnartowicz D, Popieluch M (Warsaw, Poland)
Injury prevention in football
Chairs: Gupte, Chim (UK) – Serratosa, Luis (ESP)
Injury prevention in football – Krutsch W, Nerlich M, Angele P (Regensburg, Germany)
The acceptance of FIFA 11+ football injury prevention program in youth futsal players – Zein MI, Kurniarobbi J, Prastowo NA (Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia)
Effect of FIFA 11+ on the physical fitness level of amputee football players – Kızılcı MH, Şener FG, Bayramlar K, Ergun N (Malatya, Ankara, Gaziantep, Turkey)
Non-training sedentariness among elite footballers & implications – Kumar BD, Taylor T, Aggio D, Hamer M, Weiler R (London, United Kingdom)
Strength endurance training reduces hamstrings peak torque drop in simulated football – Delextrat A, Cohen DD (Oxford, United Kingdom; Bucaramanga, Colombia)
Muscle strength imbalances and hamstring strain injuries. are we moving forward? – van Dyk N, Whiteley R, Eirale C, Kumar BD, Hamilton B, Tol JL, Bahr R, Witvrouw E (Doha, Qatar; Oslo, Norway; London, United Kingdom; Ghent, Belgium)
Biceps femoris long head architecture and hamstring injuries in elite soccer – Timmins RG, Bourne MN, Shield AJ, Williams MD, Opar DA (Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia; Wales, United Kingdom)
Prevention of hamstring injuries in English and Belgian premier league football teams – Van Crombrugge G, Duvivier B, Van Crombrugge K, Bellemans J, Peers KL (Leuven, Mechelen and Genk, Belgium; Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Pathogenesis of cam morphology in English premiership footballers – Palmer AJR, Gimpel M, Folkard SS, Broomfield JAJ, Newton J, McNally E, Taylor A, Javaid K, Carr AJ, Glyn-Jones S (Oxford, and Southampton, United Kingdom)
Is isometric strength testing of the adductors and abductors a valuable tool for differentiating hip-related adductor pain and adductor-related groin pain in soccer players? – Dimitrakopoulou A, Schilders E, Kartsonaki Ch, Cooke C (London, Leeds and Oxford, United Kingdom)
ΑCL injury prevention: does overpronation affect ACL laxity? – Kakavas G, Papastratis I, Spanidi K (Athens, Greece)
From heart to brain in elite soccer: the Neuroplus method to improve injury prevention and performance – Rusciano A, Corradini G, Stoianov I (Milano and Verona, Italy; Marseille, France)
Effects of a nine week functional exercise program in young male soccer players – Bulat M, Dinc E, Sahin M, Bayraktar B (Istanbul, Turkey)
Athletic groin pain: an anatomical diagnosis – Falvey E, King E, O’Reilly E, Ward J, Kinsella S, Hogan B, Coyle J, Franklyn-Miller A (Dublin and Cork, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Melbourne, Australia)
Athletic groin pain: a biomechanical diagnosis – Marshall B, Richter C, Gore S, King E, Halpin R, West S, Franklyn-Miller A, Moran K, Strike S, Falvey E (Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Melbourne, Australia)
Epidemiology
Chairs: Til i Pérez, Lluis (ESP), Zunarelli, Pierpaolo (ITA)
Injury incidence in Italian national youth and women teams of football – De Carli A, Calderaro C, Mazza D, Bolle G, Costabile C, Tudisco C, Checcaglini M, Ticca L, Santoriello V, Labianca L, Monaco E, Lanzetti R, Redler A, Iorio C, Guzzini M, Carcangiu A, Fabbri M, Ferretti A (Rome, Italy)
Incidence of soccer injuries in argentine professional players with different match frequency – Vilamitjana J, Lentini N, Masabeu E (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Injuries in football and rugby in Trinidad, a Caribbean Island – Maximé JE (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)
Clinical-epidemiological investigation on Milanese recreational football players – Cunetto A, Boldrini L (Milan, Italy)
The effect of hypermobility on the incidence of injury in professional football: a multi-site cohort study – Konopinski M, Graham I, Jones G, Johnson M (Liverpool and Leeds, United Kingdom)
Pubic apophysitis. A previously undescribed clinical entity of groin pain in football players – Sailly M, Whiteley R, Read JW, Giuffre B, Johnson A, Hölmich P (Lausanne, Switzerland; Doha, Qatar; Sydney and St Leonards, Australia; Manchester, United Kingdom; Copenhagen, Denmark)
Pediatric football injuries: apophysitis in young players – Monaco M, Yanguas X, Montoro B, Til Ll (Barcelona, Tarragona, Terrassa, and Barcelona; Spain)
Chronic exertional compartment syndrome in footballers – Domínguez D, Turmo A, Lupón G, Villagra V, Gasol X (Sant Cugat, Terrassa, and Barcelona; Spain)
The presence of os acetabuli and its prevalence in soccer – Dimitrakopoulou A, Schilders E, Kartsonaki Ch, Cooke C (London, Leeds and Oxford; United Kingdom)
How does lower leg alignment differ in soccer players vs normal controls? – Colyn W, Agricola R, Arnout N, Verhaar JAN, Bellemans J (Leuven and Zol Genk; Belgium)
Orthopaedic medicine in football
Chairs: Chomiak, Jiri (CZE) – Madonna, Vincenzo (ITA)
Dynamic knee instability in footballers as a result of isolated medial collateral ligament injury – Volpin A, Konan S, Fayad TE, Haddad FS (London, United Kingdom)
Functional recovery of soccer players after femoral condyle cartilage repair using all-arthroscopic AMIC technique – Prusinska A, Grygorowicz M, Piontek T, Ciemniewska-Gorzela K, Naczk J, Dudzinski W (Poznan and Pila, Poland)
Treatment of knee cartilage lesions in professional football players with MACI – case series with mid-term results – Papakostas E, Papasoulis E, Terzidis J, Sideridis A (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Platelets rich plasma treatment for muscle injuries in professional soccer players – Battistella F, Francavilla C (Monza and Palermo, Italy)
Treatment of 5th metatarsal fractures after ankle sprain in football players – Bevoni R, Mignani G, Montanari G, Girolami M (Bologna, Italy)
Outcomes of selective partial adductor release for chronic adductor enthesopathy in professional soccer players – Dimitrakopoulou A, Schilders E, Kartsonaki Ch, Cooke C (London, Leeds, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Bilateral adductor tenotomy with or without hernioplasty in greek football players with groin pain – Tzoanos G, Manousaki E, Tsavalas N, Chardaloumbas D, Kalliakmanis A, Manidakis N (Crete and Athens, Greece)
Clinical outcomes following hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement in soccer players – Dimitrakopoulou A, Schilders E, Kartsonaki Ch, Cooke C (London, Leeds, and Oxford, United Kingdom)
Severe injuries in children Football Epidemiological studies – Severe injuries in children Football Epidemiological studies
Sports medicine applied to football
Chairs: Gouttebarge, Vincent (FRA) – Susta, Davide (IRE)
Nutrition appraisal of Australian football players – Andrews M, Itsiopoulos C (Melbourne, Australia)
Effect of bovine colostrum supplementation on exercise-induced muscle damage in elite soccer players – Kotsis Y, Mikellidi A, Aresti C, Persia E, Sotiropoulos A, Nomikos T (Athens, Greece)
Cardiac autonomic imbalance in a nonfunctional overreached professional soccer player – Vilamitjana JJ, Lentini NA, Pérez Jr MF (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dubai, UAE)
Mortality in international professional football from 2007 to 2013 – Gouttebarge V, Ooms W, Tummers T, Inklaar H (Hoofddorp, Amsterdam, Bilthoven, The Netherlands)
First aid on field management strategies in youth football – Krutsch W, Angele P (Regensburg, Germany)
The effect of travel and match play on sleep in national footballers – Fullagar HHK, Dufeld R, Skorski S, White D, Bloomfield J, Kölling S, Meyer T (Saarland Germany; Australia; Belfast, United Kingdom; Bochum, Germany)
Emotional coaching model: research about football players rehabilitation – Covelli E, Pisoni D, Respizzi S (Milan, Italy)
Dental health for football players – Zahar M, Zerguini Y (Algiers, Algery)
Concussion knowledge and management among Italian youth soccer clubs – Filali N, Amaddeo P, Bellini G, Bizzotto N, Dimeco F (Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, and Bolzano, Italy)
Case Reports
Chairs: Nanni, Gianni (ITA) – Rogers, Ralph (UK)
Traumatic popliteal vein trombosis in a soccer player: case report – Yanguas X, Gudelis M, Drobnic F (Sant Cugat and Barcelona, Spain)
Comprehensive bio-mechanical physical therapy for college soccer player’s groin injury – Cassidy B (Washington, USA)
Exertional heat stroke in an adolescent football player – Broman D (London UK)
Ultrasound imaging as a novel technique to evaluate myofascial pain syndrome in a footballer: a case study – De Coninck K (Chatham, United Kingdom)
Soccer nose: the use of AlterG postsurgical and nonsurgical – Herfert J, Landkammer Y, Sassmann R, Neier B, Biritz A, Wicker A (Salzburg, Austria)
Rehabilitation following ACL reconstruction in a football player: an individualistic approach towards progressive results – Hoogendyk D (Los Angeles, USA)
Isokinetic training after an ACL reconstruction in a professional football player – Sassmann R, Herfert J, Landkammer Y, Neier B, Wicker A (Salzburg, Austria)
Exertional heat stroke in an adolescent football player – Đorđevic S, Tomažič S, Sodnik J, Berdajs M, Modic Ž, Gerbec Čuček M (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Football medicine and player health
Chairs: Tencone, Fabrizio (ITA) – Turmo, Antonio (ESP)
PA01 Cardiac screening in the English football league: a critical analysis – Andrews KE (Guildford, United Kingdom)
PA02 Narrative interview about the influence of being on the homeless national Denmark football team – Bjerregaard A (Copenhagen, Denmark)
PA03 The leadership in women’s football – Pintus P, Righini G, Morosi E (Milan, Italy)
PA04 Reduction of delayed onset muscle soreness by a novel Curcumin delivery system (Meriva) – Drobnic F, Riera J, Appendino G, Togni S, Franceschi F, Valle X, Pons A, Tur JA (Novara and Milan, Italy; Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
PA05 The results of the survey peripheral of vision fields in soccer – Filippova O, Preobrazhenskiy V, Lyadov K (Moscow, Russia)
PA06 Epidemiology study on Italian non-professional football teams – Cilli P, Pisoni D, Giannini A, Boldrini L, Tencone F (Milan and Turin, Italy)
Orthopaedics in Football
Chairs: Panics, Gergely (HUN) – Respizzi, Stefano (ITA)
PC01 Evaluation of US-MRI fusion technology in football injuries. A pilot study – Wong M, Til L, Domínguez D, Medina D (Sant Cugat and Barcelona, Spain)
PC02 Low-field MRI in the study of pedicle edema in young athletes with low back pain – Miceli M, Zunarelli P, Rizzo D, Gradilone A, Cedrini F, Barozzi L (Bologna and Castrovillari, Italy)
PC03 Anatomic ACL reconstruction: graft healing assessment – Massoni C, Maiotti M, Paolantonio P, Oliva F, Bianchedi D (Rome, Italy)
PC04 Transtibial vs anteromedial tunnel ACL reconstruction in soccer players: any correlation between clinical and radiographic results? -Osti L, Buda M, Cheli A, Soldati F, Del Buono A, Maffulli N (Modena and Como, Italy)
PC 05 Use of PRP in rehabilitation: patellar tendonitis versus Achilles tendonitis – Di Leo MT, Caponetto G, Russo A, Iermano P (Enna and Catania, Italy)
Biomechanics and functional assessment
Chairs: Baroli, Matteo (ITA) – Buckthorpe, Matthew (UK)
PH01 Hamstring regionalized muscle activity in some exercises – Ruzza M, Diaz D, Gasol X, Wong M, Lupón G, Turmo A (Terrassa, Sant Cugat and Bercelona, Spain)
PH02 An analysis of hip and knee kinematics and kinetics during a drop landing in bladed and moulded football boots – O’Reilly EJ, Marshall B, King E, Franklyn-Miller A, Falvey E (Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia)
PH03 An analysis of the differences between bladed and moulded football boots during cutting – O’Reilly EJ, Marshall B, King E, Franklyn-Miller A, Falvey E (Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia)
PH04Landing kinematics and kinetics of single leg jumps following ACL reconstruction – Undheim M, O’Malley E, Richter C, West S, Halpin R, King E, Falvey É, Franklyn-Miller A, Marshall B (Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia)
PH05 Isometric mid-thigh pull in football players post ACL reconstruction – Lynch L, Franklyn-Miller A, Marshall B, Enda K, Undheim M, Richter C, Moran R, Falvey E (Dublin and Cork, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia)
PH06 Minimal detectable change of upper quarter balance measures in footballers – Vivo Fernández I, Medina Mirapeix F, Jimeno Serrano FJ, García Vidal JA, Sánchez-Martínez P, Salinas-Palacios V, Escolar-Reina P, Vicente Ríos JF, López Segovia M, Salinas-Martínez F (Murcia, Spain)
PH07 Upper and lower quarter dynamic balance in amateur footballers – Vivo Fernández I, Salinas-Martínez F, Salinas-Palacios V, Escolar-Reina P, Vicente Ríos JF, Jimeno Serrano FJ (Murcia, Spain)
Rehabilitation & return to play
Chairs: d’Orsi, Giovanni Maria (ITA) – Rivaroli, Simone (ITA)
PB01 Rehabilitation exercises and ankle injury recurrence: basketball vs football – Sotiropoulos S (Athens, Greece)
PB02 The efficiency of different rehabilitation methods of soccer players with low back pain – Preobrazhenskiy V, Sidorenko E, Preobrazhenskaya M, Vnukov D, Lyadov K (Moscow, Russia)
PB03 Injury prevention screening tests in a football team. Comparison between predictions and results – Baroli M, Gaetani S, Lanza M, Kampakis S (Verona, Italy; London, United Kingdom)
PB04 Evaluation of electromyographic and functional responses after participation in the prevention program FIFA 11+ – Oliveira M, Bispo V, Lobo P, Orrico G, Sebba PH, Souza Borges JH, Souza R, Netto D (Brasilia, Brazil)
PB05 Hamstring injuries in elite English rugby union: a survey of current practice – Jones S, Passfield L, Hambly K, Kemp S (Chatham and London, United Kingdom)
PB06 Deep oscillation, kinesiotaping and exercises in amateur football players after ACL reconstruction – Andreev A (Russe, Bulgaria)
Case Report
Chiars: Brotto, Emanuele (ITA) – Tomaello, Luca (ITA)
PE01 Recurrence of Rectus Femoris muscle lesion in a football player – Zuppardo S, Ferrari E, Lenzi PA, Nanni G (Grosseto and Bologna, Italy)
PE02 Groin pain in athletes: three case reports of unusual etiology – Verrone L A, Telesca P, Mondino J A, Dignani F D, Garcia Celia F, Huff M (Rosario, Argentina)
PE03 An uncommon case of stress fracture in professional women football player – Jallageas R, Verdiere F, Rochcongar P (Cesson-Sévigné, Rennes and Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France)
PE04 Pain in the distal shin in a 17-year old female football player – Birtič D (Nova Gorica and Ljubljana, Slovenia)
PE05 The role of chiropractics in athletic pubalgia – Diquigiovanni A (Bologna, Italy)
PE06 Rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament injury: a football player case report – Desilvestri M, Capacchione P, Filipovic I, Casella A, Massazza G (Turin, Italy)
Functional assessment
Chairs: Marconato, Alessandro (UK) – Roi, Giulio Sergio (ITA)
PF01 V’O2max and V’O2AT: athletic performance, compliance to field role, injury prevention and re-training in elite football players – Manari D, Manara M, Zurini A, Tortorella G, Prandelli N, Ancelotti D, Vitale F, Bosco F, Mirandola P, Galli D (Parma, Carpi, Reggio Emilia, and Padova, Italy; Madrid, Spain)
PF02 Do the physical indexes impact on soccer players’ rating? – Preobrazhenskiy V, Vnukov D, Larin I, Sidorenko E, Preobrazhenskaya M, Lyadov K (Moscow, Russia)
PF03 Jumping power and technical skill performance in young football players – Danelon F, Trombello D, Righini G, Dordoni A, Gallo M (Milan, Italy)
PF04 CMJ 2.1: functional test during post injury period in football player – Alberti G, Boccolini G, Rossi A (Milan, Italy)
PF05 Reliability of a sphygmomanometer to assess hamstring strength in footballers – Dugdale C, Leech R (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
PF06 Flexibility in amateur football players. Comparison between literature data and test on field – Baroli M, Candotti S, Gaetani S, Rivaroli S (Verona and Milan, Italy)
PF07 Simple and complex reaction time at visual stimulation, before and after a rehabilitation after knee surgery in football players – Zurek M, Comi S, Cicchella A, Roi GS (Bologna and Milan, Italy)
Traumatology and functional assessment
Chairs: Respizzi, Stefano (ITA) – Tzouroudis, Nikos (GRE)
PG01 Muscle injuries and body composition in young soccer players – Ferrari P, Segattini C, Corradini G (Verona, Italy)
PG02 Isometric adduction strength decreases in footballers with previous groin injury – Vivo Fernández I, López Segovia M, Medina Mirapeix F, García Vidal JA, Jimeno Serrano FJ, Vicente Ríos JF, Sánchez Heredia MA (Murcia, Spain)
PG03 A look at the effects of a season long intervention on ankle strapping and injury prevention in Under 20s – Windsor P, Brooks M (Dundee, United Kingdom)
PG04 Isokinetic evaluation of knee in recreational soccer players previous knee injury – Coelho S, Miana A, Uemura B, Lucato AC (São Paulo, Brazil)
PG05 Justifying 3D biomechanical review following ACL reconstruction – O’Malley E, Marshall B, Richter C, Moran R, Falvey EC, Moran KA, Strike SC, Franklyn-Miller AD, King E (Dublin and Cork, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Melbourne, Australia)
PG06 Comparison of single and double leg drop land following ACL reconstruction – O’ Malley E, Marshall B, King E, Undheim M, Holland É, Travers S, Franklyn-Miller A, Moran K, Strike S, Falvey E (Dublin and Cork, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Melbourne, Australia)
PG07 A computerized baropodometry study: how the foot pressure changes with fatigue in professional futsal players – Filippone L, Stoppa V, Osti L, Gildone A, Caruso G, Massari L (Ferrara, Italy)
PG08 Isokinetic strength of evertors and invertors muscles after ankle sprains treated with two different dynamic protections – Tamburrino P, D’Onofrio R, Tucciarone A, Tamburrino G (Formia and Latina, Italy)