Medical Symposium
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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8th UEFA Medical Symposium
The importance of medicine in football
8th UEFA Medical Symposium, Frankfurt, 31 January–2 February 2023
Organisers
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the German Football Association (DFB)
Every four years, UEFA, through its Medical Committee, organises a medical symposium for the national team doctors of all UEFA member associations as well as the doctors of the top European clubs that participate in the UEFA elite club injury study. UEFA is delighted to welcome the participants, speakers, medical committee members to the symposium and wishes everyone an interesting conference.
The theme of the 2023 symposium is 'The importance of medicine in football', focusing on the significant evolution of football medicine in the last few years and its crucial role in the modern game. Each session presented at this symposium has been carefully picked by the medical committee and the UEFA medical administration to portray the important role that medicine plays in football and how it can benefit the overall team performance.
Although this is the first time that UEFA has included industry and business partners' participation at the event, the symposium scientific programme was designed to be completely product/service neutral, based exclusively on the feedback of the team doctors after the last symposium in Greece. All organisers and programme designers have signed the COI-disclosure and have no conflict of interest, as well as all our symposium speakers. The UEFA medical unit is in the possession of originals of the COI-disclosures and will be happy to present them, upon request.
Addresses
UEFA
Route de Genève 46
1260 Nyon
Switzerland
Tel: +41 848 00 27 27
Fax: +41 22 707 27 34
UEFA.com
UEFA medical contact
Tel: +41 848 00 27 27
Tel: +41 22 702 87 41
medical@uefa.ch
Deutscher Fussball-Bund DFB
DFB-Campus
Schwarzwaldstr
60528 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
DFB
Venue
DFB-Campus
Schwarzwaldstr
60528 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
DFB
'Sport shapes the house' was the motto of the architectural design for the new home of German football. This motto has now become reality: football and administration have grown together under one roof in the new campus. In the new building, staff collaborate on the central topics of the number one sport in Germany. The purpose is two-fold: creating the best conditions for the base, and developing talent for success at the top.
Committees
Organising Committee
Zoran Bahtijarević – UEFA chief medical officer
Niki Papadimitriou – UEFA medical manager
Luka Aleksić – UEFA medical assistant
Loïc Noirat – UEFA medical and anti-doping assistant
Thomas Hauser – DFB head of medicine & science
Fiona Pförtke – DFB-Academy senior project manager
Gabriel Monthuley – DFB intern medical-centre
UEFA Medical Committee
Tim Friedrich Meyer (Germany), Chairman
Charlotte Cowie (England), Deputy chair
Helena Herrero (Spain), 1st vice-chairwoman
John MacLean (Scotland), 2nd vice-chairman
Zoran Bahtijarević (Croatia), 3rd vice-chairman
Bisser Bochev (Bulgaria)
Juan Carlos Miralles (Andorra)
Magnus Forssblad (Spain)
Mete Düren (Türkiye)
Andrea Ferretti (Italy)
Georgios Godolias (Greece)
Elke Van Den Steen (Belgium)
Simone Grana (San Marino)
Emmanuel Orhant (France)
Zsolt Szelid (Hungary)
Eduard Bezuglov (Russia)
Marko Noć (Slovenia)
Petros Agathangelou (Cyprus)
Scientific Committee
Tim Friedrich Meyer – Prof. Dr. me d. (conflict of interest disclosure form)
Charlotte Cowie – Chief medical officer, English FA (COI form)
Zsolt Szelid – Cardiologist and sport medicine specialist (COI form)
John MacLean – Director and CIO, Hampden sports clinic (COI form)
Marko Noć – Professor of medicine, University of Ljubljana (COI form)
Faculty
Zoran Bahtijarević – Chief medical officer, UEFA (Switzerland)
Igor Borić – CEO and head of radiology department, St Catherine Speciality Hospital (Croatia)
Christopher Carling – Head of performance, French Football Federation (France)
Nicol van Dyk – Medical research lead, Irish Rugby Football Union (Ireland)
Eva Ferrer – Female sport health specialist, FC Barcelona innovation hub (Spain)
Edwin Goedhart – Chief medical officer, KNVB (Netherlands)
Hans-Dieter Hermann – Sports psychology, Institute of Sports Sciences, Tübingen (Germany)
Thomas Hitzlsperger – Former CEO VfB Stuttgart (Germany)
Piet Hoebeke – Dean, faculty of medicine & health sciences, Gent University (Belgium)
Jens Kleinefeld – Emergency medicine specialist, CEO SMS GmBh, (Germany)
Jaroslaw Krzywański – National Centre for Sports Medicine, Warsaw (Poland)
Rebecca Lee – Anti-doping team leader, UEFA (Switzerland)
Ronald Maughan – School of medicine, St Andrews University (United Kingdom)
Alan McCall – Head of research & development, Arsenal FC (United Kingdom)
Tim Meyer – Head of institute of sports and preventive medicine, Saarland University (Germany)
Iñigo Mujika – University of Basque Country (Spain)
Anna Nordström – Professor of public health and sport sciences, Umeå University (Sweden)
Claus Reinsberger – Professor and chair of sports medicine, Paderborn University (Germany)
Jürgen Scharhag – Institute of sports science, Vienna University (Austria)
Michael Sjöö – Aviation medicine specialist (Sweden)
Axel Urhausen – Sports clinic, Hospital Centre of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Markus Waldén – Lead researcher, Football Research Group (Sweden)
Programme
'The importance of medicine in football'
Tuesday 31 January
| Start time | Content | Speaker(s) |
| 14:00 | Opening ceremony | |
| 14:30 | DFB introduction: recent challenges for football medicine | Tim Meyer, GER |
| 15:00 | UEFA: introduction speech | Zoran Bahtijarević, CRO |
| 15:15 | Communication: medical teams and coaches | Dino Poimann, GER |
| 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:30 | ECIS 2018–2023: new findings and new directions | Markus Waldén, SWE |
| 17:00 | Prevention of hamstring injuries (Nordic hamstrings) | Nicol van Dyk, IRE |
| 17:30 | How to avoid over-diagnosis from modern imaging | Igor Borić, CRO |
| 18:00 | Anti-doping regulations: new traps and pitfalls | Mario Thevis, GER |
| 18:30 | Therapeutic Use Exemption | Rebecca Lee, UEFA |
| 19:00 | Close of day one | |
| 20:00 | UEFA official dinner | |
Wednesday 1 February
| Start time | Content | Speaker(s) |
| 09:00 | State of the art in concussion management | Edwin Goedhart, NED |
| 09:30 | How to do neurological baseline screening properly | Anna Nordström, SWE |
| 10:00 | The role of headers for brain health | Claus Reinsberger, GER |
| 10:30 | International sports concussion consensus update | Jon Patricios, RSA |
| 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:30 | Menstrual cycle-based training | Rita Tomás, POR |
| 12:00 | Playing football during pregnancy | Eva Ferrer, ESP |
| 12:30 | The issue of gender verification | Piet Hoebeke, BEL |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Screening examinations to identify cardiac disease | Axel Urhausen, LUX |
| 14:30 | What to do when "it happens"? An analysis of real-life cases | Zoran Bahtijarević, CRO, Jens Kleinefeld, GER |
| 15:00 | Return-to-play with cardiac conditions | Jürgen Scharhag, AUT |
| 15:30 | Group photo | |
| 15:40 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Post-Covid challenges for football players | Jaroslaw Krzywański, POL |
| 16:30 | Football in the heat | Ron Maughan, SCO |
| 17:00 | Day two close | |
| 20:00 | DFB official dinner | |
Thursday 2 February
| 09:00 | How to avoid overload | Chris Carling, FRA |
| 09:30 | ACWR: helpful or a waste of time? | Alan McCall, SCO |
| 10:00 | Management of long-haul and other flights | Michael Sjöö, SWE |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Individualisation of recovery | Iñigo Mujika, ESP |
| 11:30 | Health care for players in clubs and national teams | Round table |
| 12:30 | Conclusion and close of the symposium | Tim Meyer, GER |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Workshop: ECG interpretation | Jürgen Scharhag, GER |
| 14:00 | Workshop: neurological baseline screening | Claus Reinsberger, GER |
| 14:00 | Workshop: emergency management with the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) | Carsten Lott (GER), Jens Kleinefeld (GER), Michael Sjöö (SWE) |
| 14:30 | Departure of all participants | |
The programme was designed to be completely product/service neutral, based exclusively on the feedback of the team doctors after the last symposium in Greece. All organisers and programme designers have signed the COI-disclosure and have no conflict of interest, as well as all our symposium speakers. The UEFA medical unit is in the possession of originals of the COI-disclosures and will be happy to present them, upon request.