FMA Conference & Awards 2017 Programme

SATURDAY 27TH MAY 2017

Day One 10.00

Registration Opens

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12.00

Opening Address

Eamonn Salmon Chief Executive Officer Football Medical Association

Session 1 THE FIVE STEPS TO A WINNING MINDSET 12.15

Key Note Presentation

Professor Damian Hughes Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change Manchester Metropolitan University

Session 2 BUILDING RESILIENCE IN MODERN-DAY ATHLETES A STRENGTH & CONDITIONING AND A REHABILITATION PERSPECTIVE ‘Physical Robustness’, ‘Grit’, and ‘Resiliency’ are words and phrases most spoken about by practitioners, and everyone wants to know how to get more of ‘it’! Today, more than ever, key stakeholders recognize that one of the key factors for success (or failure) of their season is the ability (or inability) of their athletes to be resilient.

The younger generations of athletes are growing up in a time where we have a much higher standard of living then previous generations. In their everyday life, resiliency as a skill, is not often being called upon and therefore underdeveloped. Are we expecting too much for our athletes to ‘arrive’ at our programs with strong resiliency skills already developed?

Sport requires athletes to bounce back from setbacks immediately. This session will explore the fundamentals of what resilience is, how resilient athletes behave, the stages of coping and recovery from setbacks, and the key strategies for building resilience.

13.00

Building Resilience Through Applied Strength & Conditioning

13.30

Building Resilience in The Rehabilitation Process

14.00

TRADE EXHIBITION & COFFEE BREAK

Session 3 Sponsored by the FA

Dr. Ben Rosenblatt Lead Men’s Physical Performance Coach, The F.A. John Kiely Senior Lecturer in Elite Performance UCLAN

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BUILDING RESILIENCE IN MODERN-DAY ATHLETES – A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH 14.45

A Medical Perspective

Dr. Mark Gillett Director of Performance West Bromwich Albion FC

15.00

A Psychiatrist’s Perspective Growth Mindset and Building Resilience

15.15

A Sports Science Perspective

15.30

Q&A

Dr Jag Basra Doctor of Psychiatry Dr Carl Wells Sport Science Lead Perform

Session 4 Sponsored by Renew Health Ltd

FROM DATA TO PERFORMANCE – IS IT WORKING? Preparing athletes for elite competition involves the coach, the athlete and a number of sports medicine and sports science practitioners. Each needs to appreciate the significance and complementary nature of one another’s roles if performance of the athlete is to be maximized. Modern coaches need to have sufficient knowledge and understanding of ‘Soccer Science’ principles, and how to use these principles in a coordinated manner. Moreover, coaches working at the elite level, need to be familiar with the significant contributions that sports scientists, biomechanists, psychologists, sports medicine practitioners and nutritionist can offer.

Without such knowledge, they will be unable to make critical decisions that impact on the holistic performance of athletes. If the role of the coach is to assimilate information and drive the coaching process, then it is the role of the soccer scientist to monitor, record and deliver performance insights. Just as modern coaches need to be familiar with the significant contributions that sports science can offer, soccer scientists need to be familiar with the specific demands of soccer and the appropriate methods to communicate with athletes and coaches.

15.45

The Future of Data and Performance

Michael Clarkson Catapult Sports

16.00

Are We Creating a Soft Generation?

Robin Thorpe Sport Scientist Manchester United FC

16.15

The Future in Football

16.30

Q&A

Ben Marlow Head of Football 21st Club

Join us for the FOOTBALL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

AWARDS 2017 Saturday 27th May 16.45

FA CUP FINAL Bar Available

Donnington Suite

19.30

DRINKS RECEPTION Kindly sponsored by

Conference Lobby

20.00

AWARDS DINNER Welcome to our 4th Annual Awards Dinner

Wheatcroft Suite

AWARD CATEGORIES 21 Club

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Premier League Medical & Science Team Award 2016/2017

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Championship Medical & Science Team Award 2016/2017

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League 1 Medical & Science Team Award 2016/2017

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League 2 Medical & Science Team Award 2016/2017

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National League Medical & Science Team Award 2016/2017

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Scottish Medical & Science Team Award 2016/2017

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Scottish League Award

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Women’s Game Award

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Exceptional Achievement Award

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Exceptional Service Award

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Outstanding Contribution to Football Medicine & Science

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Longstanding Service Award

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SUNDAY 28TH MAY 2017

DAY TWO TRADE EXHIBITION

9.00

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Session 5 PHYSICAL PREPARATION & SKILL DEVELOPMENT, THE GYMNASTICS WAY 9.30

Keynote Presentation

10.00

Q&A

10.15

Nick Ruddock Performance Gymnastics Coach

TRADE EXHIBITION & COFFEE BREAK

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Session 6 Sponsored by BSN Medical Ltd

A PROFESSIONAL COACH IN CONVERSATION WITH THE FA’S PERFORMANCE & MEDICAL EDUCATION TEAM In this session, a professional game coach will be interviewed by The FA Performance Education Team as to how they utilise the multidisciplinary teams available to them and how they use these resources to achieve winning results. The team will focus on questions around the coach’s values and beliefs, the environment they try to create, their approach to making players fit to perform repeatedly and their consideration for future player development.

Questions around developing and maintaining robustness will also be fielded and there will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.

10.45

A professional coach in conversation with the FA’s Performance Education Team

Performance Education Team: Justyn Price Lead Joce Brooks Psychology Lisa Hodgson Medical Matt Portas Physical Performance Shall Hall Performance Analysis David Court Talent ID

Session 7 Sponsored by The FA

FUTURE PHYSIOTHERAPISTS, DOCTORS, SCIENCE PRACTITIONERS & SPORTS THERAPISTS IN FOOTBALL. WHAT SHOULD THEIR PROFILE BE? This session will discuss and debate what should be the profile of the physiotherapist, doctor and scientist in football. Should the practitioner be multi-skilled with extensive knowledge of each other’s work or should they work in intellectual silos? Should there be more collective responsibility and sharing of success and failure? Are there examples of “better” practice of ways of working? What are the medico legal consequences of working outside are own professional remit?

As service delivery providers, how do we increase our level of expertise and not be guilty of just practicing the way we have done for the last 10 years.

What is best for the Club as compared to what is best for the practitioner or are these one and the same?

Does the physiotherapist need to get back to the basics of remedial work and classic effective rehabilitation and prevention pathways rather than mini managing areas outside that of physiotherapy? If so how? Does the scientist need to step away from being a fitness assistant or a GPS guru and get more embedded in local academia? If so how?

Should we all be able to cross over one another so in times of leave that we have a unit that continues to function? Should we now enforce the specialty of football medicine rather than the generic and vague ‘sport and exercise medicine’?

What is the practitioner of the future?

11.45

A Physiotherapist Perspective

11.55

A Doctor’s Perspective

12.05

A Sport Science Perspective

12.15

A Sports Therapist Perspective

12.30

Q&A

12.45

Closing Address

Chris Moseley Head Physiotherapist Middlesbrough FC Dr Craig Roberts Club Doctor AFC Bournemouth Richard Evans Head of Team & Individual Fitness Royal Belgian Football Association Ben Thompson Performance Therapist Manchester City FC Eamonn Salmon Chief Executive Football Medical Association

INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

PROFESSOR DAMIAN HUGHES

DR BEN ROSENBLATT

JOHN KIELY

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER & AUTHOR

LEAD MEN’S PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE COACH EFA

SENIOR LECTURER IN ELITE PERFORMANCE UCLAN

Professor Hughes combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture. He is the author of seven best-selling business books, including Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership, How to Change Absolutely Anything, How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson and The Five STEPS to Winning Mindset. He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for Peerless, his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson.

In 2009, he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legend, Thomas Hearns in Hitman: the Thomas Hearns Story. In 2013, his latest biography, Marvellous Marvin Hagler became the UK’s best-selling sports biography. He was appointed as a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change for Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010. His innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammed Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Dr Ben Rosenblatt is the Lead Men’s Physical Performance Coach for the English Football Association. Prior to this he was Lead S&C coach for the Great Britain Women’s Field Hockey team who won Gold at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 and the European Championships 2015.

Ben was the Senior Rehabilitation Scientist of the British Olympic Association and English Institute of Sport Intensive Rehabilitation Unit for 4 years in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Prior to this he was Head of Sports Science and Conditioning at Birmingham City FC during their promotion to the Premier League in 2007/2008. He has provided S&C support to elite Judo fighters since 2010, many of whom have won European, World and Olympic medals. Ben has helped physically prepare athletes and teams from multiple sports to Olympic, international and national success over the past 10 years. He completed his PhD in 2014 titled “a biomechanical analysis of the principles of training in strength and conditioning for sprinting” and remains passionate about working with coaches, athletes, medics and teams to work out what’s important to them and find innovative and creative ways of solving the problems that they face.

John currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Elite Performance at the Institute of Coaching and Performance, within the University of Central Lancashire. His role is to supervise PhD and Professional Doctorate candidates, all currently working within elite environments and focused on applying critical thinking to applied practical problems.

As a practitioner, John has worked with the Irish rugby team during the Rugby World Cup of 2016, and the 6 Nations winning campaigns of 2014 & 2015. He has worked with Britain’s Laura Massaro, UK Athletics, Athletics Association of Ireland, the Paralympic Council of Ireland, Irish Amateur Rowing Association, Munster Rugby and providing various consultancy services to leading football and rugby clubs in the UK. Outside the sporting domain John has consulted for both police and military services, and managed science and conditioning support for elite polar expeditions.

John’s core interests, over the past 15 years or so, have centred around enhancing injury resilience (especially in previously injured and older players); optimising return-toplay processes; optimising coordination (especially post-injury); planning and Periodisation, and the impact of cumulative life stress on elite performance, injury and illness.

INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

DR MARK GILLETT

NICK RUDDOCK

SPORT SCIENCE LEAD PERFORM SGP

DIRECTOR OF PERFORMANCE WEST BROMWICH ALBION FC

PERFORMANCE GYMNASTICS COACH

Carl has worked as an applied sport scientist within football and team sports for over 12 years. While employed within the Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University Carl completed a PhD investigating the physiological determinants of high-intensity intermittent running capability in elite football players. He was then employed full-time at Sheffield Wednesday FC for eight years, leading sport science support to the first team and then academy. In 2014 Carl took up the position of Sport Science Lead for Perform at The National Football Centre, St. George’s Park. This role involves managing the delivery of conditioning and assessment services on the PFA rehabilitation scheme and physical performance support to various national teams on a consultant basis including England men’s football and England Rugby League senior and U18 squads.

Mark Gillett qualified in medicine in 1992 and completed higher specialist training in Emergency Medicine in the West Midlands in 2003. He has a MSc in Sports Medicine from the University of Nottingham and is a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine UK. From 2003-2008 he worked for the English Institute of Sport as a sports physician in the West Midlands. In 2008, he became first team doctor at Chelsea FC, before moving to WBA FC in 2010 initially as Head of Medical Services and then as Director of Performance. In 2012, he was part of Team GB at the London Olympics as Chief Medical Officer to the men’s and women’s basketball squads. He is the outgoing chairman of the Premier League Doctors’ Group, a member of the Premier League Medical Working Group and is a board member of the Football Medical Association.

Nick, a former personal coach to Amy Tinkler; European, World and Olympic Medallist, has spent time in several influential countries, including Russia, Romania and the United States, learning and being mentored by some of the world’s most experienced and accomplished coaches.

DR CARL WELLS

INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

Nick has lectured as a Technical Expert for the UEG (Union of European Gymnastics) for 6 consecutive years, and now consults for over a dozen international gymnastics federations and a variety of performance sports, optimizing coach and athlete performance for the world stage.

DR JAGDISH BASRA

CHRIS MOSELEY

RICHARD EVANS

DOCTOR OF PSYCHIATRY

HEAD PHYSIOTHERAPIST MIDDLESBROUGH FC

HEAD OF TEAM & INDIVIDUAL FITNESS ROYAL BELGIAN FC

Dr Jagdish Basra is a Doctor of Psychiatry who advises, sets up and leads workshops on mental well-being, mental resilience and personal development to improve productivity and efficiency. Dr Basra is a guest lecturer for various businesses/ organisations including the Pro Licence Course/ UEFA A Badge at the IFA. She is the CEO of “Profile 90� which is a start-up tech company that looks at talent identification. Dr Basra has a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology, Immunology & Psychology and is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Chris Moseley is an extended scope physiotherapist working in elite professional football. Chris is Head Physiotherapist with an emphasis on performance at Middlesbrough Football Club where he has worked for the last 15 seasons since his switch from Stoke City FC. He oversees the entire treatment and rehabilitation processes on all injured senior professionals in the club from the initial pitchside management, to ensuring a complete and thorough RTT process is achieved. Chris believes in a full multi-disciplinary approach to injury management in conjunction with sports science, fitness and strength professionals.

Chris originally qualified through a degree in Sports Rehabilitation before completing his Physiotherapy degree through the PFA. This was followed by a masters degree in Injury Management and recently a PG Cert in Medical Ultrasound giving him both the academic and hands on skills combined with his extensive experience in the field to understand the multi-factorial roles and expectations within a football club. He is a firm believer in keeping up to date with modern practices without forgetting what and how we did things before the invention of the cutting edge technology.

Richard Evans is currently the Head of Team & Individual Fitness, Royal Belgian Football Club. His experience includes Head of Performance, Everton Football Club, Head of Sport Science, Wigan Athletic FC and as Head Physiotherapist at Swansea City FC. Richard studied BSc Hons, Sport Science, at Loughborough University qualifying in 1999 before undertaking a BSc Hons, Physiotherapy, at Brunel University completing in 2006.

INTRODUCING THE SPEAKERS

Dr Robin Thorpe

Ben Thompson

Ben Marlow

Performance Scientist & Conditioning Coach Manchester United FC

Performance Therapist Manchester City FC

Head of Football 21st Club

Dr Robin Thorpe is a Performance Scientist and Conditioning Coach at Manchester United Football Club.

Ben has been at Manchester City FC beginning as a Sports Therapist for the first team in 2007 and now holds the position of Performance Therapist.

Ben is Head of Football at 21st Club and has been involved in helping clubs to become more strategic and innovative since he joined the business in 2014.

Ben graduated with a Sports Therapy degree in 2002 and began his career in Rugby Union with Llanelli RFC and Llanelli Scarlets in 2003. He also worked with the Wales Men’s Senior team from 2011 until 2014.

21st Club work in a number of areas from managerial hire to succession planning around the squad and generally focus on exploiting market inefficiencies to help clubs punch above their weight.

Over the last 8-years Robin has worked with the first team delivering performance and S&C support to players whilst overseeing and managing fatigue, recovery and regeneration practices throughout the Club.

Robin completed an applied PhD (Liverpool John Moores University) investigating methods of fatigue and performance-monitoring alongside his practical role at the Club, which has led to a number of original articles published in peer reviewed journals.

Ben is passionate about reducing injury risk and maximising performance by improving efficiency in the athletic population.

Much of his work centres around a model of monitoring the player response to stress in order to maximize availability, training load prescription and recovery and reduce injury and illness risk.

AFTER DINNER SPEAKER : JEFF WINTER Ex-Premier League Referee

The FMA are delighted to announce that former Premier League referee Jeff Winter will be entertaining guests at the FMA Awards 2017 at the event to be held on Saturday 27th May 2017.

Jeff retired from Premiership football in 2004 and was one of the most controversial referee’s in England. Born in Manchester Jeff’s last match as a Premiership referee was the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Millwall and he discusses the many situations and incidents he found himself caught in the middle of during his refereeing career.

This is a great opportunity to get an insight in to an aspect of match day that we rarely come across. Jeff assures us that he has plenty of stories and perhaps one or two about the medical and science staff!! We can certainly all look forward to an illuminating and entertaining speech!

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