02-03-2009, 05:39 PM
Dear colleagues,
Turkey was hosted the 5th Meeting of the EFOST this year. More than 400 participants found this meeting perfect especially for the scientific content. When we were coming to the congress hall we were concerned about the programme, because this was an traumatology congress and we are not orthopaedic surgeons. But after we checked the abstract announcement book we noted that this will be an interesting conference even for us, not just for orthopaedic surgeons. The names of the popular scientist were drawn attention at the first sight, like S Woo, N Maffulli, R Cugat, J Ekstrand that we have heard their names from their books.
The Congress was started with the history of arthroscopy of knee joint by H Paessler and then the future of sports traumatology was discussed. The young Italian doctor’s speech on behalf of G Cerulli was impressive. He showed us medicine is not just science, also consists of a little bid art. As Galilei says “science separates what we know from what we do not”. But medicine needs to have some art to be effective.
As we mentioned before the programme was good enoug for conservative sports medicine. After starting with conservative approach of tennis leg, in the afternoon of first day one of new therapeutic modality shock wave therapy was discussed by M Rozenblat. He represented application techniques and his large clinical experiences in tendon and muscle injuries in sports. After that M Mosconi described the basic science of platelet rich growth factors (PRGF) and their usage in knee cartilage defects. Growth factors were one of the popular topic in this meeting. Especially R Cugat’s experiences and lectures were drawn attention by the participants.
Second day was started with a surprise lecture about doping in sports and gene doping. This is a questionmark in recent literature and one of the intriguing topic for future of sports medicine. Related to this we want to thank to P Biosca for his speech about growth factors and doping. He well explained why growth factors are not doping agents in sports. We all agree his opinions about this topic in our clinic and admit this therapeutic modality to our patients safely.
The speech of S Woo was one of the anticipaed lecture impatiently by us. He is a model of scientist all we try to follow his tracks and he told about how a research center have to be in 2020. At the opening ceremony presentation of KM Chan about Earthquake in South Asia affected everyone at the hall and we sensed many of the audiences blinked back their tears. After these emotional moments we had an opportunity to play tennis because it was the time of live surgery.
In the afternoon there were an interesting symposium at the hall 4 for us which was organized by Polish Sports Trauma Society under the management of G Adamczyk. It was a well-worked scheme by Polish team and groin problems in sports were discussed substantially. Like Polish faculty the symposium of Israel team about stress fractures under the leadership of G Mann was another well done session. Both of these sessions were witnessed of scientific brainstorming and interactive discussions were remarkable.
Otherwise, lectures for prevention of sports injuries and rehabilitation protocols drew our attention too. We tried to follow up all of them but sometimes it was difficult to choose a hall through enticing lectures at the same time in different halls, so we shared... At the Eastern Europe symposium about prevention of sports injuries, the speech of Z Bahtijarevic, team physician of Croatian National Soccer Team, was also aroused interest with no muscle injury with their prevention protocols. Furthermore audiences guffawed his joke about Slaven Bilic at the game against Turkish team. J Ekstrand’s contributions in this symposium was also remarkable. The effects of artificial turfs on football injuries was interpreted by the authority from UEFA and I understood that viewpoint of Health Commitee of UEFA is not unfavorable for artificial turfs.
Third day it was a golden opportunity to listen achilles tendon pathologies from N Maffulli. The symposium of extreme sports were extreme as the name implies. The organization for Gala Dinner was perfect and after the announcement of the winners of best paper and poster awards, MN Doral, the Congress President contributed to have us a red letter night by playing drum and guitar. His show was fantastic with drum accompanied by Group OPUS and Hacettepe Dance Sestet.
Finally we would like to thank to organizing committee for this unforgettable meeting across-the-board. We hope to be in Brussels in 2010 for 6th EFOST Meeting.
With all our respects,
Dr. Gürhan Dönmez & Dr. Uğur Diliçıkık
Hacettepe University Dept. of Sports Medicine
Turkey was hosted the 5th Meeting of the EFOST this year. More than 400 participants found this meeting perfect especially for the scientific content. When we were coming to the congress hall we were concerned about the programme, because this was an traumatology congress and we are not orthopaedic surgeons. But after we checked the abstract announcement book we noted that this will be an interesting conference even for us, not just for orthopaedic surgeons. The names of the popular scientist were drawn attention at the first sight, like S Woo, N Maffulli, R Cugat, J Ekstrand that we have heard their names from their books.
The Congress was started with the history of arthroscopy of knee joint by H Paessler and then the future of sports traumatology was discussed. The young Italian doctor’s speech on behalf of G Cerulli was impressive. He showed us medicine is not just science, also consists of a little bid art. As Galilei says “science separates what we know from what we do not”. But medicine needs to have some art to be effective.
As we mentioned before the programme was good enoug for conservative sports medicine. After starting with conservative approach of tennis leg, in the afternoon of first day one of new therapeutic modality shock wave therapy was discussed by M Rozenblat. He represented application techniques and his large clinical experiences in tendon and muscle injuries in sports. After that M Mosconi described the basic science of platelet rich growth factors (PRGF) and their usage in knee cartilage defects. Growth factors were one of the popular topic in this meeting. Especially R Cugat’s experiences and lectures were drawn attention by the participants.
Second day was started with a surprise lecture about doping in sports and gene doping. This is a questionmark in recent literature and one of the intriguing topic for future of sports medicine. Related to this we want to thank to P Biosca for his speech about growth factors and doping. He well explained why growth factors are not doping agents in sports. We all agree his opinions about this topic in our clinic and admit this therapeutic modality to our patients safely.
The speech of S Woo was one of the anticipaed lecture impatiently by us. He is a model of scientist all we try to follow his tracks and he told about how a research center have to be in 2020. At the opening ceremony presentation of KM Chan about Earthquake in South Asia affected everyone at the hall and we sensed many of the audiences blinked back their tears. After these emotional moments we had an opportunity to play tennis because it was the time of live surgery.
In the afternoon there were an interesting symposium at the hall 4 for us which was organized by Polish Sports Trauma Society under the management of G Adamczyk. It was a well-worked scheme by Polish team and groin problems in sports were discussed substantially. Like Polish faculty the symposium of Israel team about stress fractures under the leadership of G Mann was another well done session. Both of these sessions were witnessed of scientific brainstorming and interactive discussions were remarkable.
Otherwise, lectures for prevention of sports injuries and rehabilitation protocols drew our attention too. We tried to follow up all of them but sometimes it was difficult to choose a hall through enticing lectures at the same time in different halls, so we shared... At the Eastern Europe symposium about prevention of sports injuries, the speech of Z Bahtijarevic, team physician of Croatian National Soccer Team, was also aroused interest with no muscle injury with their prevention protocols. Furthermore audiences guffawed his joke about Slaven Bilic at the game against Turkish team. J Ekstrand’s contributions in this symposium was also remarkable. The effects of artificial turfs on football injuries was interpreted by the authority from UEFA and I understood that viewpoint of Health Commitee of UEFA is not unfavorable for artificial turfs.
Third day it was a golden opportunity to listen achilles tendon pathologies from N Maffulli. The symposium of extreme sports were extreme as the name implies. The organization for Gala Dinner was perfect and after the announcement of the winners of best paper and poster awards, MN Doral, the Congress President contributed to have us a red letter night by playing drum and guitar. His show was fantastic with drum accompanied by Group OPUS and Hacettepe Dance Sestet.
Finally we would like to thank to organizing committee for this unforgettable meeting across-the-board. We hope to be in Brussels in 2010 for 6th EFOST Meeting.
With all our respects,
Dr. Gürhan Dönmez & Dr. Uğur Diliçıkık
Hacettepe University Dept. of Sports Medicine