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Aspetar Announces Partnership with European College for Sports Science

Doha, July 13 (QNA) - The Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital (Aspetar ) has announced a three-year partnership with the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) during the latter's congress, which took place in Amsterdam from July 2-5. According to the agreement, Aspetar and the ECSS will launch an Excellence in Football Research Award. The aim of the award is to attract and support novel, applied research projects that have potential applications to the football pitch. The top six projects will be awarded the illustrious accolade. Director-General of Aspetar Dr. Khalifa Al Kuwari expressed today his pleasure to announce the partnership. He added that Aspetar demonstrated through the collaboration that it is dedicated to furthering research to help athletes around the world fulfill their potential. The 19th ECSS congress was comprised of presentations, meetings and workshops. There were also prizes for Young Investigators and an Award for Nutrition. Aspetar has attended the ECSS conference for the last Three years as a sponsor. During that time, a number of leading medical experts from the hospital have presented on a range of topics. This year, the Aspetar team hosted a comprehensive symposium entitled, How to win the match: The science behind football. This was a timely discussion, as the FIFA World Cup was taking place in Brazil at the same time. Attended by over 200 members, the popularity of the seminar highlighted a wide-spread interest in the topic. Divided into four separate discussions, the symposium enabled the sharing of contemporary ideas in football science. Current concepts and future challenges from different areas such as physiological demands, injuries, recovery and nutrition were discussed, in an attempt to assist coaches and scientists to make more effective decisions on and off the pitch. Dr. George Nassis, Lead Physiologist, National Sports Medicine Programme (NSMP) at Aspetar, delivered a talk entitled, Players monitoring, performance enhancement and injury prevention: future challenges. Dr. Nassis highlighted case studies from experts in the field of science in football, sharing experiences of top level players training. "Experts showed evidence that an abrupt increase in training load will augment the risk of muscle injury in football players. In addition, an improvement in aerobic fitness may protect, to some degree, from muscle injuries," he said. Other ECSS discussion highlights included Dr. Julien Periard, Research Scientist at Aspetar, explaining how hot ambient conditions affect cerebral (brain) blood flow during a cycling time trial. Also, Dr. Sebastien Racinais, Head of Research Operations, demonstrated that heat acclimatization allowed trained cyclists to reach a similar outdoor performance in hot and cool outdoor environments. Professor Karim Khan, Director of Research and Education at Aspetar, had these comments on Aspetars guest Professor Tim Noakes talk, Carbohydrates for performance Time to rethink sports nutrition paradigms? "Professor Noakes argued that the traditional high-carbohydrate diet for football players may not be suitable for everyone. He demonstrated his findings by comparing a high-carbohydrate diet with one where fat makes a larger contribution to energy utilization. Prof Noakes also argued that high carbohydrate diets carry a risk of obesity and insulin resistance (pre-diabetes/diabetes)." (QNA)

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