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Physical therapies in sport and academic and clinical sports physician train- 1st World Congress on Sports Injury
ing into a few short pages. Within sports
exercise medicine, it is all too easy to get caught up in
Prevention
addressing the musculoskeletal issues, and 23225 June 2005, Oslo, Norway
Edited by G S Kolt, L Snyder-Mackler. Published forget the impact of common (and not so This congress will provide the world’s lead-
by Churchill Livingstone, 2003, £60.00, hard- common) medical issues on the elite athlete. ing sports medicine experts with an opportunity
cover, pp 623. ISBN 0443071543 As primary contact practitioners, we have to to present their work to an international audi-
ensure we have a strong multidisciplinary ence made up of physicians, therapists, scien-
Physical therapies in sports and exercise, as the tists, and coaches. The congress will present
team around us. I would have liked to see a
name suggests, is sports medicine from a scientific information on sports injury epide-
bit more attention paid to the multidisciplin-
physical therapy perspective. As with all of miology, risk factors, injury mechanisms and
ary team and the physical therapists role
these types of book, it tries to cover every- injury prevention methods with a multidisci-
within it.
thing, draws on clinicians and researchers plinary perspective. Panel discussions will
from around the globe, and succeeds well in There is some really useful information and
conclude symposia in key areas providing
giving a general guide. It is a mix of strong up to date evidence based thinking within
recommendations to address the prevention
and concise anatomical review, general con- this text. For the primary clinician on the issue in relation to particular injuries and sports.
cepts within sports and exercise, regional field of play, however, to rely on the knowl- Further details: Oslo Sports Trauma Research
injury management, other active groups, and edge in this book as the sum total of his/her Centre and Department of Sports Medicine,
a section on medical issues. arsenal would be to be left wanting. On University of Sport and Physical Education,
The editors make the point early on that balance, I can recommend Physical therapies in Sognsveien 220, 0806 Oslo, Norway. Email:
there is a dearth of evidence for the techni- sport and exercise as an invaluable adjunct to 2005congress@nih.no; website: www.ostrc.no
ques and approaches we use in physical the sports clinician’s library.
therapies within sport. The stated aim is to Osteosynthese International 2005
‘‘provide a logical approach to the manage- 15217 September 2005, Curiohaus, Hamburg
ment of sport and exercise injuries that Analysis
Congress-Chairman: Johannes M. Rueger,
considers the available evidence for the M.D., Professor and Chair
efficacy of a variety of management N Presentation 17/20 Topics:
approaches.’’ This book tries to use support-
ing evidence to develop the ideas presented, N Comprehensiveness 14/20 N Innovations in intramedullary osteosynth-
but despite this, often draws on the anecdotal N Readability 18/20 esis
clinical experience of the authors. How else N Relevance 18/20 N New frontiers in osteoporosis and fracture
would they get the notion that short runners N Evidence basis 16/20
N
treatment
tend to overstride (p 250)? If the book had
stuck to the stated aim of evidence based
N Total 83/100
N
Current trauma research
Special topic: Recent development in
statements, we would only have a book half pelvic and acetabular fractures
the size and a lot more short athletes with
facet joint problems. Abstract submission deadline: 31 March
This approach is demonstrated beautifully D B Kenneally 2005
in the chapter on patellofemoral pain syn- Further details: INTERCONGRESS GmbH,
drome (PFPS). Sections outlining the theory, Martin Berndt, Düsseldorfer Str. 101, 40545
evidence, and practice of this condition Düsseldorf-Germany. Tel: +49 211 585897-
provide a well structured layout. The authors 80; fax: +49 211 585897-99; email: martin.
of this chapter are able, in this way, to berndt@intercongress.de; website: www.
present the anecdotal evidence, the clinical CALENDAR OF EVENTS osteoint2005.de
findings, and acknowledge where further
research needs to be done. It highlights that 4th European Sports Medicine
the evidence based techniques we now use
UK Radiological Congress 2005 Congress
for PFPS are the same techniques we used in
13215 October 2005, Lemesos, Cyprus
our clinics 5–10 years ago which were then (UKRC 2005) Further details: Email: pyrgos.com@cytanet.
not evidence based! Without wishing to delve 628 June 2005, Manchester, UK com.cy
too much into the debate of ‘‘evidence based
The UK Radiological Congress (UKRC)
sports medicine’’, I found that this chapter, in
general, rides the line well between providing
meeting will encompass the medical, scien- BASEM Conference 2005
tific, educational, and management issues 10212 November 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland
the evidence for the management and
that are of interest and relevance to all those Further details: Email: basemoffice@
acknowledging that other areas used within
involved in the diverse fields of radiological compuserve.com
the overall program need to be further
sciences and oncology.
investigated.
There was quite a discrepancy in the layout
The UKRC provides a forum in which to BASEM Conference 2006
and structure of the other chapters. It was bring together clinicians, scientists, radio- 527 October 2006, Oxford, UK
difficult to know the focus. The clinician graphers, technicians, and other profes- Further details: Email: basemoffice@
looking for prescriptive rehabilitation techni- sionals to present and discuss the latest compuserve.com
ques and programmes would do well to look developments and challenges in diagnostic
in the elbow chapter, but if looking for imaging, radiotherapy, and allied radiological
similar protocols for hamstring injuries, the sciences.
clinician would be disappointed. Key subjects to be covered include: diag-
nostic radiology; ultrasound; nuclear medi-
Similarly, the amount of space allocated
cine; interventional radiology; veterinary CORRECTION
to a region was inconsistent, and this was
probably due to how much evidence was radiology; emerging technologies; image ana-
available or the interest/knowledge of the lysis; computer applications; PACS; radio- doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2004.009886corr1
author. Whereas there were 20 pages devoted biology; radiological physics; management
to patellofemoral joint pain, there was a & audit; computed tomography; magnetic Elliott K J, Cable N T, Reilly T. Does oral
page and a half on groin pain in its entirety, resonance; equipment development. contraceptive use affect maximum force
including just a few paragraphs on ostei- Expected attendance (conference and exhi- production in women? (Br J Sports Med 2005;
tis pubis. The multifactorial nature of ham- bition): 4000 39:15–9). The correspondence and affiliation
string pain and the management of this Further details: UKRC 2005 Organisers, PO details were published incorrectly in this
condition were given cursory considera- Box 2895, London W1A 5RS, UK; Website: paper. The correct address is: Dr Kirsty J
tion, despite the fact that these conditions www.ukrc.org.uk; Fax: +44 (0)20 7307 1414; Elliott, Applied Biomedical Sciences Research
often present the biggest challenge to the Conference tel: +44 (0)20 7307 1410, Email: Group, GKT School of Biomedical Sciences,
practitioner. conference@ukrc.org.uk; Exhibition tel: +44 Shepherds House, Guys Campus, London SE1
The last chapter makes an interesting (0)20 7307 1420, Email: exhibition@ukrc. 1UL; email: kirsty.elliott@kcl.ac.uk
read and attempts valiantly to roll years of org.uk We apologise for this error.
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