Date: 13 – 15 January 2011 Location: Bled – Slovenia Registration: www.fivbmedicine2011.org Brochure: Download the brochure here 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 …
Athletic Care And Interdisciplinary Sports Medicine World Summit 2011
Date: 28th –30th July, 2011 Location: Bio-Seehotel Zeulenroda | Germany Congress President: Prof. Dr. Toni Graf-Baumann Registration: www.sportsmedicine2011.org Brochure: Download the brochure here 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 …
Feedback from 2010 FIMS Conference
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 via membership of SASMA. …
SASMA President signs the Exercise is Medicine charter in Baltimore, USA
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 …
SASMA Exco wishes the medical team of Bafana Bafana success!
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 be evident in …
Breakfast with John Smit and Bob Skinstad
Join John Smit and MC, Bob Skinstad, in discussing the upcoming Tri-Nations, Peter De Villiers, and The World Cup preparations. Enjoy a hearty breakfast, entertain your clients and reward your staff while you hear from these legendary Springbok players. • Super 15 and the new format. • What is in store for the Tri-Nations. • Peter De Villiers. • Are …
May News from EXERCISE IS MEDICINE™
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 will propagate a way …
A Winter Olympic Experience
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 testing of Olympic athletes, …
Guidelines for fluid replacement during Marathon Running
Prior to 1969, marathon runners were advised against drinking or eating during competition (1) since it was believed that, especially fluid ingestion would impair performance, not least by causing unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms including the “stitch”. At that time, marathon runners and marathon races were quite different from their modern descendants. In particular, there were few competitive marathon runners; most were …