WORKSHOPS

Leaders in Performance 2012 Workshops will be announced soon.

Leaders in Performance offers a series of unique, interactive workshops that are led by the top figures and innovators in the industry, draw on the expertise of the audience, and offer deeper insight into a number of key sporting performance topics. Taking place in the Millennium Boxes at Stamford Bridge, they are “invite-only” with no agencies or suppliers allowed, and offer an intimate environment away from the main conference platforms for smaller groups of experts.

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Leaders in Performance 2011 Workshops included:

The Aspetar Sports Medicine Symposium

The sudden cardiac death of a young athletic individual is a tragic and highly publicised event. Approximately 80% of non-traumatic sudden deaths in young athletes (under 35 years old) are caused by inherited or congenital structural and functional cardiovascular abnormalities, which provide a substrate for arrhythmias predisposing to sudden cardiac death (SCD). The steady trickle of SCD’s in young athletes have called for the implementation of organised and proactive screening programmes by most major sporting governing bodies, including the IOC and FIFA, and is a policy that is supported by many individual bodies such as the Lawn Tennis Association and the Rugby Football League. The purpose of pre-participation cardiovascular screening is to provide medical clearance for participation in sport through routine systematic evaluations intended to identify pre-existing cardiovascular abnormalities and thereby reduce the potential for adverse events and loss of life. However, long term high-intensity exercise is associated with apparent ‘physiological’ cardiac morphological changes, called the ‘athletes heart’. Importantly though, several forms of cardiac disease such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, also lead to cardiac enlargement and are associated with a higher prevalence of strikingly abnormal ECG patterns, morbidity and mortality. These presentations illustrated the advances and the challenges that remain in this area of study and practice.

Programme
Session One: Cardiology in Sport – Nothing for Managers to Worry About?
Session Two: Cardiomyopathy: Nothing but Challenges, Conundrums and Confusion
Followed by Lunch and Networking

Speakers included:

Dr. Hakim Chalabi, Assistant Chief Medical Officer/ Executive Director of National Sport Medicine Program, Aspetar
Prior to joining Aspetar, Dr. Chalabi was the Medical Director for Paris St Germain Football Club, where he was responsible for the medical care of several of their key players, including: Ronaldinho and Pauleta. From 1995 Dr. Chalabi worked as a Sports Medicine Specialist and, subsequently, Assistant CMO for the renowned “Clinique du Sport”. He is currently Assistant Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the National Sports Medicine Programme at the ASPETAR Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Dr. Chalabi was appointed Chief Medical Officer for the Algerian National Team who for the South Africa 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Dr Bruce Hamilton, Chief of Sports Medicine, Aspetar
Dr Bruce Hamilton is the Chief of Sports Medicine at Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital. These administrative duties are in addition to his clinical Sports Medicine duties at Aspetar. Dr. Hamilton specializes in sports medicine for individual events such as the triathlon and athletics. He also has a specific research interest in muscle overuse injuries as well as the use of autologous blood products for tissue healing and the influence of Vitamin D on muscle. Dr Hamilton has worked with sports organizations including UK Athletics, Athletics Australia, the England Institute of Sport, Triathlon Australia and the Australian Institute of Sport. In the past he has served as the team doctor in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007 World Track and Field Championships and the 2001 and 2002 World Triathlon Championships.

Professor Greg Whyte, Professor in Applied Sport and Exercise Science
A professor in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, Professor Whyte was a former international modern pentathlete, competing in two Olympic Games, and winning European bronze and World Championship silver medals. Professor Whyte was the Director of Research for the British Olympic Association based at the Olympic Medical Institute and Director of Sports Science and Research at the English Institute of Sport. His main area of research interest is focused around cardiac structure and function in health and disease.

Professor Sanjay Sharma, Medical Director, London Marathon
Professor Sharma is Director of Heart Muscle Diseases and Professor of Clinical Cardiology at St George’s University Hospital in Tooting, London. He is Medical Director for The Virgin London Marathon, Cardiologist for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), English Institute of Sport, British Rugby League and the Lawn Tennis Association. Professor Sharma’s interests include cardiovascular adaptation in athletes, sudden cardiac death in the young and heart muscle diseases for which he has an international reputation.

Dr Rory O’Hanlon, Director of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit, Blackrock Clinic
Dr O’Hanlon is a consultant cardiologist and Director of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit in the Blackrock Clinic, Dublin. His is an international expert in cardiac MRI and to date has completed and interpreted over 3500. These include a broad spectrum of pathologies including myocardial viability and perfusion assessment, cardiomyopathies, complex adult congenital heart disease, valvular heart diseases, pre and post surgical ventricular restoration/transplantation, vascular disease and angiography, vasculitides, and cardiac tumours and masses.

Professor François Carré, Chief of the Physiology department, Pontchaillou Hospital
Professor Carré is a cardiologist and a cardiovascular physiologist. He is the Chief of the Physiology department of Pontchaillou Hospital, Rennes. He is the Chief-Assistant of the INSERM Unity 642 of the Rennes1-University, Rennes France. He is the chairman-elect of the French Group of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Sport’s cardiology of the French Society of Cardiology (SFC). He is the secretary-elect of the European Group of Sport’s cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Pr. Carré is involved in Sport’s Cardiology both in its clinical and research form. He participated to several written recommendations from SFC and ESC concerning the cardiovascular preparticipation screening for competitive sports and the participation to competitive sport for patient with cardiovascular diseases. Lastly Pr. Carré has already developed a research collaboration with Professor Sanjay Sharma, examining the impact of ethnicity on athlete’s heart alterations.

Dr Mathew Wilson, Cardiovascular Physiologist, Aspetar
Dr Wilson is Aspetar’s cardiovascular physiologist. Previously he was the Laboratory Director at the Research Centre for Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Wolverhampton. He was also the Screening Manager for the CRY Centre for Sports Cardiology at the Olympic Medical Institute. In conjunction with Professor’s Sharma and Whyte, he has screened over 10,000 athletes. This has lead to a large number of academic papers from his research group, providing best practice models for cost effective pre-participation screening, new baseline electrocardiographic data for ethnically diverse populations, and effective clinical management pathways for dealing with international athletes suspected of harboring an inherited cardiac condition that may predispose to sudden death.

Strength & Conditioning Masterclass: Keep your athletes in the game. How to improve your team’s durability.

One of the keys to success for any team, regardless of the level, is keeping their athletes healthy and getting them back in the game from injury as quickly as possible. Despite training athletes for different sports, Darren Burgess, Head of Fitness & Conditioning, Liverpool FC and Bryan Doo, Strength & Conditioning Coach, Boston Celtics share similar training philosophies to keep their teams performing at the highest level. This exclusive workshop included a two part presentation with Q&A and demonstration sessions that equips coaches and teams with the latest training techniques used by two of the most prestigious teams in the world.

Part 1: Preseason and in season protocols

Evaluation of the athletes upon arrival
Deciding what each athlete needs to improve and become prepared for an NBA and EPL season
Key exercises and drills utilized by both coaches
Training newly acquired players and previous injuries (from off season or from the past)
In season workouts
Road workouts and the effects of travel on the athletes

Part 2: Technique and tools used to return players back from injury