Thursday June 23rd

Saga Hall >

10.00-10.30 OPENING

10.30-11.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Roald Bahr (Norway) & Lars Engebretsen (Norway): Sports injury prevention – the need for an evidence-based approach (with sound)

11.15-12.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Jan Ekstrand (Sweden): Looking back – 25 years in sports injury prevention (with sound)

13.00 Saga Hall A/B >

SYMPOSIUM: Preventing ankle injuries

Chair: Jon Karlsson(Sweden)

13.00-13.10 Jon Karlsson: What is the extent of the problem?

13.10-13.20 Jan Ekstrand(Sweden): Historical perspectives on ankle ligament injuries (with sound)

13.20-13.40 Lars Konradsen(Denmark): Ankle inversion injury biomechanics as a guide for ankle injury prevention (with sound)

13.40-14.00 Bruce Beynnon(USA): Risk factors for ankle injuries

14.00-14.20 Evert Verhagen(Netherlands): Prevention - how does balance training work? Evidence and practical aspects

14.20-14.40 Roald Bahr(Norway): Prevention - how does bracing and tape work? Evidence and practical aspects

14.40-15.00 Willem van Mechelen(Netherlands): The effect of bracing and taping on sports performance

15.00-15.10 Ekstrand: Future directions for ankle injury prevention research (with sound)

15.10-16.00 Karlsson, Ekstrand, Konradsen, Beynnon, Verhagen, Bahr, van Mechelen: Panel discussion – Has research changed the incidence of ankle injuries?

13.00 Saga Hall C >

SYMPOSIUM: Hockey injury prevention

Chair: Willem Meeuwisse (Canada)

13.00-13.10 Meeuwisse: Introduction

13.10-13.40 Brian Benson (Canada): Epidemiology of ice hockey injuries and mechanisms of injury

13.40-14.00 William Roberts(USA): Injury prevention – Minor to intercollegiate hockey

14.00-14.20 Yelverton Tegner (Sweden): Injury prevention – Swedish elite league

14.20-14.40 Meeuwisse: Injury prevention – National Hockey League

14.40-15.00 Mark Aubry(Canada): Injury prevention – International Ice Hockey Federation

15.00-15.40 Benson, Roberts, Tegner, Meeuwisse, Aubry: Panel discussion – What is the best future target for injury prevention – player, equipment, behaviour, environment or rules?

13.00 Auditorium A >

FREE COMMUNICATIONS

Chair: Fredrik Bendiksen (Norway) & Kjersti Storheim (Norway)

13.00-13.10 M Karahan, U Akgün, Ç Tiryaki, B Erol, L Engebretsen (Turkey/Norway): Direction of load defines the handball goalie’s elbow (abstract #85)

13.10-13.20 BJ Gabbe, KL Bennell, R Branson (Australia): Does conditioning prevent hamstring injuries in Australian football? (#52)

13.20-13.30 BJ Gabbe, CF Finch, KL Bennell, H Wajswelner, JW Orchard (Australia): Risk factors for hamstring injuries in Australian football (#53)

13.30-13.40 K Knobloch, S Martin-Schmitt, M Jagodszinski, T Gossling, J Zeichen, C Krettek (Germany): Muscle injury prevention by propriceptive training in elite female soccer (#90)

13.40-13.50 AS McIntosh, TN Savage, JP Best, J Orchard (Australia): Rugby union injury surveillance study: Results from 2002-2003 (#102)

13.50-14.00 U Fredberg, L Bolvig: Prophylactic training reduces the frequency of jumper’s knee but not Achilles tendinopathy (#50)

14.00-14.10 BF Miller, JL Olesen, M Hansen, JA Barbraj, K Smith, MJ Rennie, M Kjaer (Denmark/UK): Effect of female sex hormones on collagen synthesis in skeletal muscle and tendon in response to exercise (#105)

13.00 Auditorium B & Jacob Vaage >

WORKSHOPS

Auditorium B >

13.00-13.55 Grethe Myklebust (Norway, chair) & Odd-Egil Olsen (Norway): Practical knee injury prevention programs: The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center program for team handball (workshop A)

14.00-14.55 Giuliano Cerulli (Italy, chair), Auro Caraffa (Italy)& Piero Volpi (Italy): Practical knee injury prevention programs: The Italian way (football) (workshop B)

15.00-15.55 Holly Silvers (USA, chair) & Tim Hewett (USA): Practical knee injury prevention programs: The US experience (Santa Monica PEP program & Cincinnati Children’s DNA Training program) (workshop C)

Jacob Vaage >

13.00-14.25 M. Sarah Rose (Canada): Practical aspects of the statistical analysis of dependent data in sports (workshop D)

14.30-16.00 Charles Kimmel ( USA, chair) & Gene Elizabeth Verel (USA): Taping and bracing; an art work of prevention (NATA workshop) (workshop E)

16.30 Saga Hall A/B >

SYMPOSIUM: Preventing head and cervical spine injuries

Chair: Paul McCrory(Australia)

16.30-16.35 McCrory: Introduction and overview

16.35-16.45 McCrory: Who gets injures – The epidemiology and mechanisms of head and neck injury in sport

16.45-17.10 McCrory: Can we prevent cervical spine injuries in sport?

17.10-17.35 Andrew McIntosh (Australia): Do helmets prevent head injury in sport?

17.35-18.00 Caroline Finch (Australia): What are the potential problems in introducing protective equipment?

18.00-18.25 Michael Turner (England): How to do it? The practicalities in establishing a head injury prevention program

00.00-00.00 McCrory, Finch, Turner, McIntosh: Panel discussion – do head and neck injury prevention strategies work in children and adults, community and elite sport? Are current prevention guidelines workable?

16.30 Saga Hall C >

SYMPOSIUM: Handball injury prevention

Chair: Gijs Langevoort(Netherlands)

16.30-16.50 Langevoort: The injury panorama in handball – the case for injury prevention

16.50-17.20 Petra Platen (Germany): Injury prevention through improved referee fitness (with sound)

17.20-17.50 Grethe Myklebust(Norway): Preventing ACL injuries in female handball players (with sound)

17.50-18.15 Odd-Egil Olsen(Norway): A structured warm-up program to prevent knee and ankle injuries in youth handball (with sound)

18.15-18.30 Langevoort, Platen, Myklebust, Olsen: Panel discussion – Can handball injuries be prevented? What is the next step?

16.30 Auditorium A >

FREE COMMUNICATIONS

Chairs: Ingar Holme (Norway) & Tron Krosshaug (Norway)

16.30-16.40 E Cumps, D Van Dessel, A Winkelmans, K Verbeeck, R Meeusen (Belgium): Prevention of ankle sprains in basketball: effectiveness of a 22-week sports specific balance training programme on the incidence of ankle sprains (abstract #30)

16.40-16.50 J Hertel, TA Evans (USA): Postural control performance is not associated with increased risk of ankle sprain (#73)

16.50-17.00 CE Hiller, KR Refshauge, A Bundy, RD Herbert, SL Kilbreath (Australia): Validation of a tool for measuring functional ankle instability (#75)

17.00-17.10 E Scase, J Cook , M Makdissi, B Gabbe, L Shuck (Australia): Can a physical training program prevent injuries in elite junior Australian football? Evaluation of an injury prevention strategy (#121)

17.10-17.20 D Brooks, A Spackman (New Zealand): Is corporate sponsorship good for injury prevention initiatives in community sport? (#20)

17.20-17.30 S Rose, C Emery, WH Meeuwisse (Canada): Predictors of sport injury in adolescents (#120)

16.30 Auditorium B & Jacob Vaage >

WORKSHOPS

Auditorium B >

16.30-17.25 Charles Kimmel (USA): The pre-participation sports physical exam (NATA workshop) (workshop F)

17.30-18.30 Mario Bizzini (Switzerland, chair) & Astrid Junge (Swotzerland): An injury prevention program in amateur football: The F-MARC 11 (workshop G)

Jacob Vaage >

16.30-17.25 Mark De Carlo (USA): Prevention of ankle injuries (IFSP Workshop) (workshop H)

17.30-18.30 Mark De Carlo (USA, chair) & Michael L Voight (USA): Prevention of shoulder injuries (IFSP Workshop) (workshop I)