KARACHI: The Sports Medicine Association of Pakistan (SMAP) organised a one-day symposium on the subject of assessment and rehabilitation of sports injuries here at a local hotel on Tuesday.
The symposium included four lectures and a hands-on workshop on sports taping. Over one hundred professionals belonging to different fields of sports fraternity including coaches, physiotherapists and doctors were in attendance.
Dr Shahid Noor, Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, Liaquat National Hospital, delivered his lecture on assessment of sports injuries in lower limbs. He emphasised on joint examination of the hip, knee and ankle joints. He also deliberated on the common soft tissue injuries of the lower limb occurring different sports.
Dr Amin Chinoy, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, spoke on assessment of sports injuries of upper limb. He discussed the joint examination of shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. His lecture covered a comprehensive assessment of injuries taking place in upper limb before initiating any sort of treatment.
Atif Hussain and Riaz Baig of Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre, delivered their lectures on rehabilitation of sports injuries of upper and lower limbs. They emphasised the need of early treatment and use of physiotherapy and massage techniques to treat sporting injuries in collaboration with orthopaedic surgery, if required, to early recovery of the athletes.
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