Back pain in youth sports by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Michael Cassel

Name: Back pain in youth sports by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Michael Cassel
Start: 2024-09-25T17:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-25T19:00:00+02:00
Location: d'Coque

Schedule

Wed Sep 25 2024 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

d'Coque | Luxembourg, LU

Sports science and medical lecture organised by SLMS & CMOL/CHL on behalf of the Luxembourg Academy of Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy and Science.
Free entrance, no registration required
Lecture will be in English
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Michael Cassel, a specialist in orthopaedics, trauma surgery and sports medicine, works as senior physician at the center of sports medicine of the University of Potsdam, Germany.
His main areas of work and research are injuries and complaints in high performance sports among young and competitive athletes, with a focus on load-dependant overuse injuries (e.g. tendinopathies, back pain and spondylolysis).
He is an active member of the German Society of Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP) and the Committee of Children's Sports Orthopedics of the German-Austrian-Swiss Society for Orthopaedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS).
Furthermore, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Cassel works for the sports medical care at the Olympic Centre Brandenburg, Germany, since 2007 and is responsible as Head of Medicine for the German Canoe Federation since 2016.
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Cassel will give a lecture about „Back pain in youth sports”. He will report on the aetiologies, diagnostics as well as treatment, rehabilitation and prevention options for these complaints, which are already relatively common in adolescence, with a particular focus on young competitive athletes.