Educational seminars
Load Management: Training Smarter and Harder
Dr. Tim Gabbett has built a distinguished career by working with elite professional athletes and publishing his research in esteemed scientific journals that undergo rigorous peer review. His publication record boasts over 300 articles, and he has presented at more than 400 national and international conferences. Dr. Gabbett’s Load Management Workshop, which has been conducted on six continents and in 24 countries, combines the most recent scientific information on training with practical strategies that can be applied immediately in clinical settings, with patients, athletes, or sporting teams.
Hamstrings Masterclass with Nick van der Horst
Dr. Nick van der Horst is a sports physiotherapist working in elite football. After working as the head of the medical staff for Go Ahead Eagles Football Club in Netherlands, he was employed by the Dutch national football association KNVB where to primarily be responsible for rehabilitating injured professional football players. At present, Nick is working as the rehabilitation coordinator for PSV Eindhoven. In 2017, Nick obtained his PhD on behalf of his research about the prevention of hamstring injuries in football. As an embedded scientist, he is also involved in research and lecturing about football medicine and physical performance.
Assesment, classification and managment of chronic pain in athletes. An update
Dr. Eleni Kapreli, a professor at the University of Thessaly, will be the speaker at the seminar on chronic pain. Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide and is associated with significant healthcare costs. The inability to correlate the extent of tissue damage with the magnitude of pain, disability, and associated symptoms represents a diagnostic challenge for health professionals. Some studies reveal that chronic pain has a global prevalence of over 30%, resulting in substantial personal and financial hardships. Chronic pain should be viewed as a disease, unlike acute pain which is just one component of various symptoms.
A criteria-based clinical guide for a successful RTP post ACLR
Dr. Wouter Welling is a sports scientist. He obtained his PhD in 2022 at the University of Groningen with the subject: “Return to sport after an ACL reconstruction. Are we there yet?”. Dr. Welling worked as an embedded scientist at a clinic in Groningen, from where he facilitated professional football clubs with testing, load monitoring, load management, return-to-sport, and prevention. Currently, he works in the rehabilitation and performance clinic “Pro-F” in Enschede.
Dr. Wouter Welling has also been involved in many scientific studies and publications and he has extensive experience in translating scientific knowledge to the clinical situation in both a football and broader sports medicine context.
