This is a preliminary program only and is subject to change.

This is a preliminary program only and is subject to change.

Fuel up and learn with Women’s Health in Sport & Exercise Medicine!
Saturday, May 2 from 7 to 8:30am before the main conference.

Major Games Infectious Disease Prevention and Management – Strategies and Lessons Learned

1. Identify key infections disease risks associated with major games using real-world examples.
2. Apply evidence-informed prevention strategies to reduce the risk of infectious disease transmission among athletes and staff in a games environment.
3. Develop and implement a structured approach to infectious disease preparedness.

Lance Richard Memorial Lecture: Texture Makes Medicine Come Alive

1. Knowing the Shoulders that current CASEM members stand upon
2. Understanding the meaning of Texture in the Practice of Medicine
3. Understanding the L/T ratio
4. Accept the need for active involvement in CASEM

New Canadian Best Practices Guidelines for Iron Optimization in Athletes

1. To acknowledge the recently developed Canadian Best Practices Guidelines for Iron Optimization in Athletes which is a collaborative effort from Canadian sport medicine physicians, dietitians and physiologists. And to appreciate that this evidence-based information is designed to ensure a consistent national message when screening, managing and treating athletes regarding their iron status.
2. To understand the key highlights and nuances when implementing the current evidence-based recommendations for iron optimization with regards to screening and treating athletes to support their iron status for health and sport performance.

Team Travel Trials and Tips

1. Identify Common and Uncommon Team Travel Medical Scenarios
2. Discuss Solutions for Different Medical Scenarios while traveling internationally with teams

The Soccer Players’ Hip and Pelvis Issues

1. Identify some important aspects of how a pelvis and hip issue can result in knee dysfunction (ACL?)
2. Identify muscle imbalances between Hip/Pelvis structures leading to dysfunction
3. Learn how knowledge of specific field position (like set piece taker) requirements should influence off field strengthening programs

Controversial Pediatric Sport Medicine Injuries – An Interactive Case Based Discussion

1. Identify common controversial Pediatric Sport Injuries.
2. Be able to apply current management and investigation strategies for these injuries.
3. Know what types of injuries require referral to higher level specialist care.

Planetary Health and the Role of SEM Physicians

1. Define planetary health,
2. Recognize the impacts of the current planetary health crisis on human health, and on athletes and people who exercise in particular
3. Identify ways in which sport and exercise (and medicine) is impacting the planet.
   In addition, participants will be able to
4. Start to formulate responses to the planetary health crisis in their practice and daily lives.

Weird Nerve Stuff That Confuses Sports Docs

1. Understand key clinical differences between neurological & musculoskeletal pathologies
2. Appreciate the limitations and indications of electromyography (EMG) testing in the Sport Medicine population
3. Explore common clinical pathologies intertwining neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms through clinical cases

Exertional Lower Limb Pain in Athletes

1. Develop a differential diagnosis for an athlete presenting with lower limb pain during exertion.
2. Recognize the key symptoms and clinical signs for each differential diagnosis.
3. Establish a management plan based on the pathology.

Hand & Wrist Exam Tips and Tricks

1. To appreciate a simplified conceptualization of the hand & wrist and how they function.
2. To develop an appreciation of the principles of hand & wrist injury management, return-to-play decisions, and some recent innovations

Pregnancy & Postpartum for Athletes

1. Describe the latest guidelines on physical activity in pregnancy
2. Identify ways to support patients in return to sport postpartum

2 Minutes 2 Slides

1. To enhance attendees clinical knowledge by sharing unusual cases, their investigation and their treatment
2. To provide physicians with the opportunity to practice the skills needed to prepare and deliver case presentations
3. To encourage greater collaboration amongst sports medicine physicians