Minutes from lectures dr. Cristiano Eirale

Respected colleagues,

We would like to inform you that the guest of the Sports Medicine Department, a prominent sports expert, team physician of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, Dr. Cristiano Eirale maintained a lecture on Friday, 9th February 2018 at the Department of Medical Physiology on the subject “Football injuries and how they affect the performance”. During his lecture, Dr. Eirale, presented, using a very interesting approach, the novelties in the research of football injuries to the students of Master and PhD program, as well as to the doctors attending the specialization of Sports Medicine. In an interactive lecture, all the participants could learn about the incidence of injuries, when injuries occur more frequently during training or during the game, the type of injuries, the mechanisms of injury, but also the influence of the environment, temperature, characteristics of the football field, training load, training modality. During the lecture, Dr. Eirale presented the latest studies published in eminent journals, in which he also participated as a researcher, their results and how these results can be used by practitioners in everyday practice. After the lecture, Dr. Eirale answered various questions of participants about his experience as a team doctor and about the decision on returning players to the field based on medical evidence, but also considering the pressure of the club’s management to return the injured player back to the field in the shortest time possible. Also, it was discussed about the specific problem of the team doctor of the local female handball team on the more frequent injury of players. Dr. Eirale suggested that he would first investigate the causes of injuries, the mechanisms of injuries, and at the same time heal the injuries using standard methods of physical therapy. Prof. Dr. Sanja Mazić, together with Dr. Eirale, commented on the influence of different approaches in training of athletes to the incidence of their injury, and about the difference among European countries considering the conditions of training, the number of games per week, the workload of athletes and their recovery after the injury. They emphasized that multicenter approach to injuries is necessary and that, based on experience from different regions of the world, it can point us out how to prevent injuries in sports.

The lecture was attended by the prominent expert Dr. Žarko Vučković, general surgeon at the Aspetar Clinic (Aspetar Qatar Orthopedic and Sport Medicine Hospital, Doha, State of Qatar). Dr Vuckovic is known to the local public as a team doctor of various national handball selections. Currently, Dr. Vučković is leading the research in the area of pain in the groins and inguinal hernia in athletes. During the discussion, Dr. Vuckovic tried to explain the models of different therapeutic approaches to the problem of the pain in the groins, as well as the decision on the surgical treatment of inguinal hernia. He pointed to the latest protocols for the treatment of pain in groins, with a special emphasis on evidence-based medicine.

The second lecture was maintained by Prof. Saša Bubanj from the Department of Applied Kinesiology, in the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the University of Niš. Prof. Bubanj is leading the Master Academic Studies titled “Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health”, in the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the University of Niš. He is also editor of the international scientific journal of the University of Niš, “Facta Universitatis Series Physical Education and Sport”. He is the manager of the national project of the Ministry of Education of Science and Technological Development, coordinator and participant in numerous international, regional and national projects (Tempus, Erasmus +, GIZ, etc.). Prof. Bubanj presented his research in the field of biomechanics and the benefits of walking and runing athletes and non athletes. In addition he analyze the methods of walking and running on the fingers and heels, and pointed to the potential further researches, especially in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. Also, prof. Bubanj demonstrated the testing of explosive power of the vertical jump, using the portable tensometric platform, following a special protocol (Quatro Jump Kistler), which provides the objective measurements over 80 parameters in accordance with jumping force over time, manifested strength, jump height and reaction time.

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