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“Publishing Your Work”: ACSMS 2013 Workshop

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Workshops can provide some of the most informative and useful learnings throughout a conference, or at least that has been my experience so far.  The opportunity to discuss and debate ideas in a small group on a well-defined topic is a recipe for success.

At this year’s Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, my PhD Supervisor Paul Gastin (@paulgastin) and I attended the “Publishing Your Work” workshop.  The workshop was jointly-facilitated by Greg Kolt (University of Western Sydney), Kim Bennell (University of Melbourne), Evert Verhagen (Vrije Universiteit Medical Center Amsterdam), and Gordon Waddington (University of Canberra), all of whom have editorial involvement with prominent sports science and sports medicine journals such as the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.  I took away some great insights from the session which I am pleased to share here (in sketchnote form, naturally), with permission from the workshop facilitators:

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Neuromuscular Plasticity to Training: ACSMS 2013 Keynote by Prof Per Aagaard

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The keynote presentations from this year’s Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport were well-chosen, in terms of topics and presenters.  As someone who is only moderately familiar with this topic, I found Per Aagaard’s presentation on neuroplasticity and human movement performance (specifically muscular power development) to be well-targeted, particularly given the variety of disciplines represented in the audience.  Also, kudos for delivering this keynote presentation barefoot, with the cuffs of his trousers rolled up…!  The things you can get away with when you are conferencing it up in tropical Phuket 😛

Here are my sketchnotes from Per’s presentation:

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Tendinitis to Tendinopathy: 2013 Refshauge Lecture by Dr Craig Purdam

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Here are my sketchnotes from Craig Purdam’s fascinating Refshauge Lecture at this year’s Australian Conference of Science in Medicine in Sport.  Craig elaborated on the history of tendinopathy research, demonstrating great respect for the work that has gone before while outlining how the past has informed our present-day understanding of tendinopathy and its remaining mysteries.

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