MESSAGE FROM MUSTAPHA LARFAOUI
FINA President
It is my pleasure to welcome all the delegates in Manchester (GBR) for the 16th FINA World Sports Medicine Congress, to be held on April 7-8, 2008.
Since the first FINA Sports Medicine Congress, which took place in 1969 in London, the conferences and presentations submitted during the last 15 editions represent a source of information that continues to be useful to our athletes, coaches, clubs and Federations.
Three goals preside to this initiative:
- To preserve and if possible to improve the athletes’ health;
- To ensure their physical and mental condition through a harmonious activity;
- To maintain, whenever possible, the equality of chances between competitors
Our Federation is proud of being one of the few International Sport Federations that, for so many years, carried out a policy of information and exchange of knowledge and ideas in the wide field of sports medicine.
Being also one of the FINA’s goals to disseminate and accelerate the participation of young competitors in our sport, it is of relevant importance to detect, correct and prevent the health or injuries problems that are inevitably associated with the practice of any physical activity.
This year, I particularly salute Professor Arne Ljungqvist, IOC Member in Sweden, WADA Vice-President, and Chairman of both the IOC Medical Commission and the WADA Health, Medical & Research Committee. We thank him for accepting being the presenter of the 2008 Bleasdale Memorial Lecture.
I also address FINA’s gratitude to the Organisers of this Congress in Manchester (GBR), but also to all members of the FINA Sports Medicine Committee under the efficient leadership of Dr Margo Mountjoy.
I am sure that our 194 FINA Member National Federations will benefit from this debate. Our main goal is to be useful to them.
To all of you I wish a fruitful Congress and a nice stay in this lively city.
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Dr Derek Martin, Disability Swimming Team Physician, British Swimming |
Disability Swimming: The Hidden Jewel of British Sport
 Dr Derek Martin
Disability Swimming Team Physician
British Swimming
Medical Officer to the British Paralympic Swimming Squad. Appointed in 2004 he attended the Athens Paralympic Games and also the World Championships in Durban 2006. He continues in the role of Medical Officer for Disability Sport England covering the major swimming events. Previously Medical Officer with Cambridge City Football Club and a variety of Martial Arts organisations. Recently retired from General Practice after 22 years to spend more time with the squad
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Disability swimming. The hidden jewel of British Sport?
Dr Derek Martin
Disability Swimming Team Physician
British Swimming
The objective of this discussion is two fold.
Firstly I wish to discuss who the British Paralympic Squad are and what achievements they have made. The squad are a virtually unknown sporting group who, at the time of writing this are one of only three World Champion Squads in the whole of British sport. I will also discuss the structure of the squad briefly.
Following on from this I will discuss some of the added problems of disabled athletes. This will include issues concerned with visual impairment, amputees, cerebral palsy and epilepsy. Spinal chord injury will be discussed and will include thermoregulation, autonomic dysreflexia (accidental and deliberate) etc.
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