Saturday June 28th

8 – 8.45

KEYNOTE LECTURE (Tromsøsalen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Tim Hewett (USA): Coupled biomechanical – epidemiological strategies for preventing ACL injuries: connecting the body’s core to injury at the knee

SESSION A (Tromsøsalen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Game, set, and match –prevention of tennis injuries

Chair: Per Renström (Sweden)

9.15-9.30 Todd Ellenbecker (USA): USTA High Performance Profile

10.15-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-11.00 Todd Ellenbecker (USA): Preventative shoulder exercises

11.30-12.00 All: Panel discussion - will chronic injuries remain a chronic problem in tennis?

SESSION B (Rica Hall 1, Rica Ishavshotel)

Influencing government policy development for sports injury prevention

Chairs: Willem van Mechelen (Netherlands)

9.20-9.40 Simon Gianotti (New Zealand): Influencing government polices that impact on sport injury prevention - the implementation of the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy

9.40-10.00 Toomas Timpka (Sweden): Policies for safety in youth sports, an international perspective

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.50-11.10 Lars Engebretsen (Norway): Obtaining government support for preventive research in sport injuries and the implementation of this research in Norway

11.10-11.30 Willem van Mechelen (Netherlands): Discussant and sports injury prevention. Who is responsible - the ‘Nanny State’ or the individual?

11.30-12.00 All: Panel discussion

SESSION C (Rica Hall 2, Rica Ishavshotel)

Studying sports injury mechanisms - from the field to the laboratory

Chair: Andrew McIntosh (Australia)

9.00-9.05 Andrew McIntosh (Australia): Introduction - the importance of understanding injury mechanisms

9.15-9.25 Paul McCrory (Australia): What coaches, players and athletes report about injury mechanisms

9.25-9.40 Ken Quarrie (New Zealand): Playing situation & behaviour - match analysis using video

9.40-9.55 Thor Einar Andersen (Norway): Translation of player situation & behaviour analysis to football

9.55-10.25 Coffee break

10.40-10.55 Tron Krosshaug (Norway): Local analysis of injury mechanisms - from incident analysis using video to lab studies

10.55-11.10 James Slauterbeck (USA): Laboratory studies of injury mechanisms - in vivo and in vitro

11.10-11.25 Bertrand Fréchède (Australia): Computer simulations of injury mechanisms

11.40-12.00 All: Panel discussion

SESSION D (Sydspissen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Workshops

9.00-9.50 R Bahr (Norway), R Dick (USA), C Fuller (Chair, England), W Meeuwisse (Canada): Recurrent injuries: How to define them and how to record them (#O)

10.00-10.50 R Dick (USA), J Dvorak (chair, Switzerland), A Junge (Switzerland): How to conduct an injury surveillance program I (#P)

11.00-11.50 JM Alonso (Spain), R Dick (chair, USA), M Mountjoy (Canada), P Renström (Sweden): How to conduct an injury surveillance program II (#Q)

SESSION A (Tromsøsalen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Implementing training programs targeted to improve performance and prevent injury in team sports - successes, perils, pitfalls and politics

Chair: Jiri Dvorak (Switzerland)

13.00-13.30 Jiri Dvorak (Switzerland): Introduction: overview of implementing training programs targeted to improve performance and prevent injury in team sports

13.30-13.50 Geoffrey Verrall (Australia): Australian football

13.50-14.10 Thor Einar Andersen (Norway): Soccer

14.30-15.00 All: Panel discussion

SESSION B (Rica Hall 1, Rica Ishavshotel)

ACL injury paradigm: ACL biology and its relationship to injury and prevention

Chair: James Slauterbeck (USA)

13.00-13.10 James Slauterbeck (USA): Introduction of an “ACL Injury Paradigm” and its relationship to prevention

SESSION C (Rica Hall 2, Rica Ishavshotel)

Epidemiology of injuries in Olympic sports

Chair: Dennis Caine (USA) & Melissa Schiff (USA)

13:00-13:15: Dennis Caine (USA): Gymnastics

SESSION D (Sydspissen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Workshops

13.00-13.50 S Gianotti (New Zealand), K Quarrie (New Zealand): RugbySmart (#R)

14.00-14.50 M Bizzini (co-chair, Switzerland), A Junge (co-chair, Switzerland), G Myklebust (co-chair, Norway): Basic and advanced version of an injury prevention program for amateur football players (#S)

SESSION A (Tromsøsalen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Mechanisms of hamstring muscle strain and implications for prevention

Chair: Geoffrey Verrall (Australia)

15.45-15.50 Geoffrey Verrall (Australia): Why is the biceps the most commonly injured hamstring muscle?

16.35-16.50 Árni Árnason (Iceland): Does the mechanism of injury influence the prevention program

17.00-17.30 All: Panel discussion – areas of agreement and disagreement for the mechanics of hamstring injuries and implication for prevention programs

SESSION B (Rica Hall 1, Rica Ishavshotel)

Adjustment for exposure to injury risks: considerations in the selection of controls, biomechanists vs. epidemiologists

Chair: Karim Khan (Canada)

15.30-15.35 Karim Khan (Canada): Introduction and setting rules of debate

SESSION C (Rica Hall 2, Rica Ishavshotel)Free communications

Chairs: John Orchard (Australia) & Tron Krosshaug (Norway)

15.30-15.40 G Myklebust, A Skjølberg, R Bahr (Norway): ACL injuries in female team handball players - national injury trends after the Norwegian injury prevention study (#42)

16.00-16.10 Y Urabe, R Sasaki, A Miyazato, O Yamaguchi, Y Ueda, S Koshida (Japan): Effect of an ACL injury prevention program on decreasing ACL injury incidence: a three-year follow-up study (#45)

Chairs: John Bergfeld (USA) & Sandra Shultz (USA)

16.40-16.50 M Collins, A September, J Cook, C Handley, L van der Merwe (South Africa/Australia): Variants within the COL5A1 gene are associated with chronic achilles tendinopathy in a second population (#48)

16.50-17.00 M Schwellnus, K Schwabe, R de Villiers, M Collins (South Africa): Achilles tendon morphology and blood flow changes following an Ironman triathlon: a prospective cohort study (#49)

17.00-17.10 M Yagishita, K Kitaoka (Japan): The effect of eccentric exercise on the injured patella tendon healing (#50)

17.10-17.20 I Buist, S Bredeweg (Netherlands): Incidence and risk factors of running-related injuries in female recreational runners (#52)

SESSION D (Sydspissen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

Workshops

15.30-16.20 M Bizzini (Switzerland), T Hewett (USA), R Smith (USA), ML Voight (chair, USA): ACL injury prevention programs: How to implement and are they effective (#T)

16.30-17.20 C Ortega (chair, USA), G Zuest (USA): Efficient taping strategies to prevent injuries of the lower extremities (#U)

17.30 – 18.15

KEYNOTE LECTURE (Tromsøsalen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)

18.15 – 18.30

CLOSING CEREMONY (Tromsøsalen, Radisson SAS Hotel Tromsø)