Contents Welcome 4
Members’ News
Features 5
The Barcelona Way Damian Hughes
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Research and Development What you should know about R&D
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Cardiac Screening Saves Footballers’ Lives – But We Can Do More David Oxborough
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Are we Squeezing the Life out of Adductor Monitoring Gary Silk
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER The launch of the FMPA Register is the culmination of much endeavour by the FMPA team and we are delighted with the response to date and the momentum that is starting to build. The Register was largely designed as an initiative to support members who leave the game often at a time of real need, giving them a platform to showcase their experience, helping them to maintain a presence in the game and supporting their private practice ventures. The needs of these members are clearly different to members in full time posts, hence why the register was set up as a separate entity and viewed as a potential bolt- on to membership, to be used as required. Continued support for colleagues, whether currently in the game or not, is what the FMPA is all about. Our membership is hugely diverse, covering more than a dozen disciplines, with a variety of specific needs. While this can be challenging at times, our profound belief is that ALL disciplines providing health care services to players and Clubs have an important role to play and individuals therein are an invaluable part of our membership. The change of title to FMPA underpins this belief. It is in working together that we have strength as an organisation and a significant voice in the professional game.
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What do sports medicine professionals working in football need to know about sport psychology? Dr Caroline Heaney
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The Supply of Medicines to Sports Teams Roni Lennon Bsc
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The FMPA Register
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Life After Football – Rob Swire
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A Commonly Misdiagnosed injury – Lisfranc Fracture Dislocation in a Professional Soccer Player Ashley Jones MSc Rodger Wylde BSc Richard Moss MSc
One of our main aims has always been to improve standards but there are many questions still to be addressed; areas such as governance, indemnity, safeguarding, fitness to practise and the increasing `brain drain` of skilled practitioners from the game, to name but a few. We should be very concerned that, in some areas, standards are actually falling Some of this is centred around cost saving measures at clubs who seem to think that as long as they have the minimum requirements in place, then everything is ok. Let me give one example for all to consider. If healthcare insurers determined long ago that their members (the public) can only be treated by practitioners who have a minimum of 5 years post graduate experience, why is it that `football` is happy for new graduates to treat professional players the day after graduation?
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The (Return to Play) Times, They are a Changin’ Markus Waldén Clare Ardern
While the foundations of the FMPA are firmly in place, all Medical and Performance practitioners working in professional football should recognise the role that the FMPA is playing and grasp the opportunity, not only to take the organisation forward, but to be an even louder voice in the game, raising standards to the world class level that you all deserve.
Eamonn Salmon CEO Football Medicine & Performance Association Football Medicine & Performance Association 6A Cromwell Terrace, Gisburn Road, Barrowford, Lancashire, BB9 8PT T: 0333 456 7897 E: info@fmpa.co.uk W: www.fmpa.co.uk
Chief Executive Officer
Eamonn Salmon Eamonn.salmon@fmpa.co.uk
Executive Administrator Lindsay Butler Lindsay.butler@fmpa.co.uk
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