Programme

Friday 22nd November

Saturday 23rd November

8.00 - 9.00	Registration - Tea/coffee (EDEN Mezzanine)
9.00 - 9.15	Welcome note - EDEN 130 (Lecture Theatre) Professor Claire Ozanne - Vice Chancellor and Rectorate, Liverpool Hope University Professor Omid Khaiyat - Conference Chair, Dean of School of Health and Sport Sciences
Session 1: Setting the Scene: Considerations in The Sporting UL - Chair: Jo Gibson
9.15 - 9.45	Tim Stevenson: Holding a mirror up to ‘success’: A patient's perspective
9.45 - 10.15	Ann Cools: The Bern Consensus - What it is and what it means to practice
10.15 - 10.45	Ian Horsley: “You’ve Got a Dysfunctional Shoulder…It’s All in Your Head!”
10.45 - 11.15	Tea/coffee break and trade stands (EDEN Arbour Room)
Session 2: The Bigger Picture - Chair: Jo Gibson
11.15 - 11.45	Adam Gledhill: The psychology of shoulder injuries: What can clinicians do to support (and challenge) athletes during rehabilitation and return to sport?
11.45 - 12.15	Mike Stewart: "I am not an injury. I am a cyclist." A practical communication workshop to help the athlete in pain
12.15 - 12.45	Roger Kerry: Neurovascular presentations in the Sporting Shoulder
12.45 - 1.30	Lunch (EDEN Arbour Room) and Trade Stands (EDEN Corridor)
Session 3: The Sporting Elbow - Chair: Omid Khaiyat
13.30 - 14.00	Val Jones: Anyone for tennis? Elbow pain in athletes, what are the considerations?
14.00 - 14.30	Simon Booker: The Sporting Elbow: A Surgeon’s Perspective
14.30 - 14.45	Tea/coffee break and trade stands (EDEN Arbour Room)
Workshops 15.00-16.00	1. Ian Horsley: “Brain training for optimising shoulder function” 2. Val Jones: Anyone for tennis? Elbow pain in athletes, what are the considerations? (case studies) 3. Tim Stevenson: Closing the space between physio and S + C: Where control becomes confidence
Session 4: The Throwing (Overhead) Athlete - Chair: Jo Gibson
16.15 - 16.45	Ann Cools: The overhead athlete: from pain to the playing field
16.45 - 17.15	Fredrick Johannson: Don't throw in the towel because you can't throw
17.15 - 17.45	Mike Walton: An introduction to shoulder instability: Forwards, Backs and All Rounders
20.00	GALA dinner - EDEN Arbour Room

Sponsor Workshops 8.00-9.00	1. TBC 2. TBC 3. TBC
8.30 - 9.00	Tea/coffee/networking (EDEN Corridor)
Session 5: The Collision & Contact Athlete - Chair: Ian Horsley
9.15- 9.45	Caroline White: "Is the Shoulder an issue in Women's Rugby?"
9.45 - 10.15	Nigel Jones: Concussion, Stingers and Shoulder Instability - Linking them all together
10.15-10.45	Edel Fanning: Return to play in rugby: Are we doing well enough?
10.45- 11.15	Tea/Coffee Break and Trade Stands (EDEN Corridor)
Session 6: Reversing the chain! - Chair: Ian Horsley
11.15-11.45	Kevin Kuppens: Swimmers, Shoulders and Pain: Stories and Evidence beyond Rotator Cuffs and Prevalence
11.45-12.15	Julie Stark: Canoeing Shoulder
12.15-12.45	Uzo Ehiogu: Climbing Injuries and Return to Performance - What a Non climbing specialist needs to know !
12.45- 13.45	Lunch (Rosemary Guest Dining Room) and Trade Stands (EDEN Corridor)
Session 7: Challenges in the Sporting Upper Limb - Chair: Ian Horsley
13.45-14.15	Omer Elma: The Link Between Chronic (Shoulder Pain), Neuroimmune Metabolism, and Nutrition
14.15-14.45	Ritchie Barber: The Para Shoulder - Pain AND Performance!
14.45-15.15	Liam Owens: Incorporating the kinetic chain into shoulder rehabilitation: does it really matter?
15.15-15.45	Jo Gibson: Conference summary and take home messages
15.45-16.00	Conference closing address