| 16th FINA World Sports Medicine Congress |
| Manchester, UK 7-8 April 2008 |
| The theme of this Congress was ‘Optimising Performance and Promoting Health’. Links |
| with WCSS are being forged for publicising the Proceedings. The congress focused on |
| optimising the performance of elite aquatic athletes of all disciplines utilising the latest |
| sports medicine and science opinion and research. It featured presentations by world |
| leading experts in their field that addressed a wide variety of issues, including: - |
• Performance analysis |
• Analysis of stroke biomechanics |
• Injury prevention in aquatic athletes |
| • Shoulder injury management: non-surgicaland surgical |
| • Coach-swimmer interaction |
| • Athlete health protection |
| • Performance analysis |
| • Doping control and TUE’s |
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| Further information can be found on the conference site here |