Video: World Cup Footage from Yahoo Sport featuring interview with SASMA President, Dr. Jon Patricios.
Date: 13 – 15 January 2011
Location: Bled – Slovenia
Registration: www.fivbmedicine2011.org
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Dear Participants,
Volleyball and Beach Volleyball like other sports offer society a unique opportunity for individual and social development. Volleyball is a challenging game, where players learn a wide variety of skills – physical, mental and social. Volleyball is also an exciting game [...]
Date: 28th –30th July, 2011
Location: Bio-Seehotel Zeulenroda | Germany
Congress President: Prof. Dr. Toni Graf-Baumann
Registration: www.sportsmedicine2011.org
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Dear Athletes, Care Givers and Colleagues
The quality of Athletic Care very much depends on the efficiency of how different disciplines and professions interlace their competencies for the good of the athlete. A physician will never be able [...]
FIMS CONFERENCE 2010
The International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) presented the XXXI World Sports Medicine Congress on 18 – 22 May 2010 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. FIMS, as you probably know, is the major decision making body on sports medicine in the world and South Africa is privileged to be a member of FIMS [...]
SASMA President, Dr. Jon Patricios, signs the Exercise is Medicine charter on behalf of Africa in Baltimore, USA, 5 June 2010
Exercise is Medicine Charter
First World Congress on Exercise is Medicine
American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting
Baltimore, June 1, 2010
This Charter is the product of the First Exercise is Medicine World Congress, held June 1-5, 2010 [...]
FIFA 2010 World Cup – Medical Services
The Executive Committee of the South African Sports Medicine Association wishes the medical team of Bafana Bafana and all our colleagues participating in this auspicious event every success over the coming weeks.
South Africa has a proud tradition of excellence in sports medicine and we are certain that this will [...]
Louis Holtzhausen
Program Director: Sports Medicine
University of the Free State
geslh@ufs.ac.za
Health care systems in the public and private sectors in South Africa find it difficult to keep up with the ever rising cost of health care. In fact, public health services are facing serious challenges to provide adequate services on many levels1. This article [...]
Hosting an Olympics is like giving birth to 82 countries, where the contractions last for eight years, the dilation has to accommodate hundreds of athletes marching out and insisting on carrying flags.
One thing is very clear, the culmination of one Olympics only brings with it the problems from the previous Olympics, for example the urine [...]
Concussion suffered while playing sport, if not managed properly, could have serious consequences for players – such as memory loss and continuous headaches. Most of the victims are youngsters who take part in contact sports like rugby.
South Africa has the highest incidence among the collision sports. Ten to 15% of players suffer concussion every season. [...]
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