medicine & performance The official magazine of the Football Medicine & Performance Association
Issue 28 Spring 2019
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The Team Behind The Team
What exactly do large medical teams do to keep players in optimal physical condition
In this issue Sports Pharmacist: What the role provides Life After Football Spotlight on Substitutes FMPA Conference Awards 2019
Legal Education Recruitment Wellbeing
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CONTENTS WELCOME
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Updates
FEATURES
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Understanding The Team Behind The Team
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Are You Surviving or Thriving? Caroline Marlow
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Sports Pharmacist: What The Role Provides Paul Moloney MPharm
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Spotlight on Substitutes: What Do We Know? Samuel P. Hills Steve Barrett Mark Russell
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Life After Football – Scott Pearce 40
FMPA Register
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FMPA Conference 2019
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Translating Strength Into Speed Mike McGurn
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LightForceÂŽ Helping People to GoPerform
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Photography PA Images, FMPA, Getty Images, FIFA via Getty Images, Jussi Eskola
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Contributors Mike McGurn, Samuel P. Hills, Steve Barrett, Mark Russell, Paul Moloney MPharm, Scott Pearce, UEFA Direct
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LIGHTFORCE® HELPING PEOPLE TO GOPERFORM With over 20 years of experience at the highest level of professional sport, working in various roles with Watford, Reading and Norwich City among others, Luke Anthony broke away to establish GoPerform with a key aim in mind: to provide the services regularly on offer to top-level professional sportspeople to members of the general public. Now Clinical Director at GoPerform, a sports injury and performance centre based in Reading, Luke is taking the knowledge and expertise obtained by both him and his team to provide a range of services to people at all levels of sport and physical activity. “Over the years, you accumulate a lot of experience and you start to think about all of the work you’re doing with Premier League footballers, players at Championship level or Premiership rugby players,” explained Luke. “That level of sports medicine, rehabilitation and sports science isn’t something that is readily offered to the public. There’s no reason why these services can’t be offered in a public setting. If you have the knowhow and the equipment to do it, you have the ability to deliver it. “We still have Premier League players coming to us, but we’re now treating people ranging from a Saturday park player to people at high levels
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of completely different sports, in addition to people with relatively low levels of fitness who want to get fit. We wanted to offer our expertise, equipment and technology – something that’s not commonly available – to the general public. “GoPerform offers professional physiotherapy, in terms of professional hands-on treatment, but a lot more in the way of rehabilitation,” added Luke. “I think that’s what makes GoPerform different to other practices out there. We’re not just a traditional clinic where diagnosis is carried out and hands-on treatment is delivered. We have a huge space available to carry out rehabilitation, from early stages through to late-stage rehab. You can then also combine that with the other disciplines, whether that is strength and conditioning or sports science. There is a performance link. Everything dovetails together, rather than there being a harder transition when you leave.” Alongside the knowledge and experience possessed by Luke and his team, technology plays a huge role in what GoPerform offer clients. Over the past eight months, that technology has included the use of LightForce laser therapy – and Luke reveals that his team is seeing impressive results.
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For the uninitiated, LightForce laser therapy is the non-invasive use of near-infrared laser energy to generate a photochemical response in damaged or dysfunctional tissue; a process called PhotoBioModulation. Laser therapy has been shown to alleviate pain, reduce inflammation and accelerate recovery from a wide range of acute and chronic clinical conditions. As rehabilitation specialists will testify, the main goal of treatment for many when treating painful, debilitating conditions is to facilitate improved function and mobility. Laser therapy is a drug-free, surgery-free technique to help make that goal a reality. “As with a couple of other types of treatment, laser therapy wasn’t something that I’d used a lot in the past,” explained Luke. “However we have been able to use it every day for a variety of conditions. We have genuinely found it to be very useful. “Of course, with the LightForce laser treatment, we’re taking about a very modern type of technology, something that is very different to what was used in the past. The LightForce system produces a lot more power and the therapy has been valued by patients a lot more as a result. “Broadly speaking, there are two main areas that the LightForce laser helps us with,” Luke explained.
football medicine & performance “The first is tissue healing and tissue regeneration. If somebody has an acute injury to their tissue, for example a sprain to the ligament in the ankle, the laser will provide energy to the tissue and help stimulate the cell regeneration and recovery process. “We feel that, by applying it on a regular basis to healing tissue, it will improve the recovery of that tissue. The second is from a pain point of view. There is evidence to suggest that it will reduce some of the pain mediators around tissue, particularly nerves. Back pain, neuropathic pain, tendon pain; we have seen a transient improvement in the pain endured, which enables us to move the rehabilitation on that bit quicker. “The laser treatment is part of a package that provides a gain for our patients. “We believe that we are able to speed up the recovery process by utilising LightForce laser treatment as just one part of our overall services.” For more information on LightForce laser therapy, please visit www.litecure.com/medical Meanwhile, for further details on the services provided at GoPerform, please visit www.go-perform.co.uk
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It is hugely rewarding to see the response and feedback from our members to our endeavors to promote their practices and the FMPA in general. Clearly the FMPA Register is continuing to grow from strength to strength. However, it is important to keep your profile at the forefront of your audience’s minds, so at a time when they are in need of your services, they know exactly where to turn. We understand how hectic your schedules are but you can have peace of mind knowing that Amie and I are continually marketing and promoting you through a variety of channels to grassroots football. We’ve been coming up with some great new ideas this week to engage this audience even more - one of them being the development of a Medicine & Performance Hub which will be hosted on the FMPA Register pages, and contain an array of information for the grassroots community. Our talks continue with various organisations to help create a greater awareness of the Register and the support our members offer and our most recent exciting news to share is the new partnership which we have secured with Manchester FA. One of the most appealing aspects of our register is that members are happy to support the initiative to `give back to the game` by offering discount on fees to grassroots players. This is widely popular and will help to cement your position as the go-to practitioner in your area. Amie and I are always here to help our members, so please get in touch if there is anything you need.
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