Current Insights in Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Ankle Injuries

Brief outline (Detailed outline)

Introduction with anatomy, epidemiology and risk factors. Morning session with diagnosis, treatment and prevention of acute ankle injuries, including use of evidence-based clinical guidelines. Afternoon session about chronic ankle instability, with focus on impaired dynamic postural control and propriocepcis training, including dual task performance, muscle pre-activation and cognitive-motor flexibility.

Objectives

• Participants have knowledge for diagnosis of acute ankle injuries, and to evaluate dynamic postural control with chronic ankle instability.
• Participants can design strategies for treatment and prevention of acute ankle injury and chronic ankle instability.
• Participants can relate dynamic postural control and muscle re-activation to patients with chronic ankle instability.

Organiser

Philip Van der Wees (Netherlands)

Philip van der Wees PT, PhD, is physical therapist and human movement scientist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He finished his doctoral thesis in 2009, in which he evaluated the development and implementation of evidence-based clinical guidelines in physical therapy. He currently works as Program Manager Quality & Implementation in a joint program of the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (IQ healthcare), and Maastricht University (Caphri Research Institute). His assignment is to stimulate the implementation of clinical guidelines in physical therapy and to systematically evaluate the implementation in research projects. His research publications focus on development, implementation and evaluation of clinical guidelines and contribute to the body of knowledge in implementation science.

Philip van der Wees was responsible for development and execution of the clinical guideline program of the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF), and is lead author of the KNGF-guideline Ankle sprain. He is co-author of several national multidisciplinary guidelines (Obesity, Ankle sprain, Tobacco addiction).  In 2009 he was elected as member of the Board of Trustees in the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N). He wrote several key-note papers for WCPT about development and implementation of clinical guidelines.
Philip van der wees has ample teaching experience as lecturer at the Leiden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA, USA. His current position, as well as previous positions, includes numerous presentations at congresses.

Speakers

Peter Vaes (Belgium)

Hoogleraar, Associate Professor Rehabilitation Sciences, Physiotherapy and Manual Therapy at the Faculties Physical Education & Physiotherapy and Medicine & Pharmacology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel BELGIUM. 

Research topics: chronic ankle joint instability, sensorimotor control of the lower extremity and the spine related to ankle and knee instability, osteoarthritis of the knee, chronic low back pain, cervical pain and cervicogenic headache.
Published among others in American Journal of Sports medicine, Spine, Cephalagia, Gait and Posture, Journal of orthopedics and sports physical therapy, Physical Therapy, Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.

Project manager of research projects: Diagnosis and management of Ankle instability; Neck pain, headache and sensorimotor control; Low back pain and sensorimotor control; Knee joint osteoarthritis, physiopathology and effects of exercise; Foot and ankle 3D kinematics
Parttime Consulting Physiotherapist and Manual Therapist, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, BELGIUM.

Robert van Cingel (Netherlands)

Robert van Cingel PT, PhD, is sports physiotherapist, orthopedic manual therapist and managing director of Sports Medical Center Papendal (SMCP), where also the Dutch Olympic Training center is housed. SMCP cooperates closely with the Dutch Olympic Committee. Robert was member of the medical team at the Olympic Games in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. He finished his PhD in 2007 at Maastricht University on dynamic joint stability; the value of isokinetic dynamometry. His research publications focus on different aspects of musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Robert is member of the scientific and congress committee of the International Federation for Sports Physiotherapy (IFSP) and editorial board member of the Flemish/Dutch journal of sports medicine and sports science.

Evert Verhagen (Netherlands) 

Evert Verhagen PhD (1976) is a senior researcher of the department of Public and Occupational Health at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam. He completed his masters in Human Movement Sciences in 1999. As a former Track & Field athlete who had to cease participating at the elite level on the age of 17 due to an injury, he has a natural interest in sports and physical activity injury prevention. Evert received his PhD in 2004 after emphasising the preventive effect balance training has against ankle sprains. He gained his mark for his work on the prevention of ankle sprains, but also has a strong focus on safety and injury prevention in youth sports and physical activity, as well as the uptake of the interventions within a broad sporting population. He is a board certified occupational epidemiologist and human movement scientist. He is a member of a great number of (inter-)national committees and advisory boards, as well as a member of the editorial board of 3 international peer-reviewed journals.

Erik Witvrouw (Belgium) 

Erik Witvrouw PT, PhD, graduated as Master in Physical Therapy at the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1987. In 1988 he did his master in Sports Physical Therapy.  In 1991 he finished his studies manual therapy.

From 1990 until 1999 he worked as a physical therapist at the Sports Medical Center of the University of Leuven.   In 1998 he got his PhD entitled: “Identification and treatment of intrinsic risk factors of patellofemoral pain syndrome patients”. In 1999 he became associate professor at the Ghent University, Belgium. In 2008 he became full professor.
From 1999 until now he teaches at the department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences in the Physical Therapy Education.  He is also teaching in the education “Sports Medicine” of the Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University. He has given several oral presentations at international congresses.

He is head of the “musculoskeletal research unit” of the department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences. His research is focused on musculoskeletal injuries in general, and knee problems in Sports Medicine particular. He has more than 80 international SSC publications, and several national publication (>100).  He received several national and international prizes and grants.

He is head of the department Sports Physical Therapy at the Sports Medical Center of the University Hospital, Ghent, where he daily treats patients  with sports injuries.

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