ABOUT THE FOOTBALL MEDICINE & PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATION (FMPA)

The Football Medicine & Performance Association (FMPA) is the independent representative body for medical and performance practitioners in professional football. Members consist of doctors, physiotherapists, sports scientists, performance analysts, sports therapists and soft tissue therapists as well as allied healthcare practitioners such as dentists, podiatrists, nutritionists and psychologists. The FMPA is a non-profit organisation.

Mission Statement:

To support the practice of medicine, performance and allied professions associated with (professional) football.

Vision Statement:

To create an environment where all facets of player care and performance are delivered to the very highest standards.

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MOHAMED SALAH PICKS UP INJURY, CHELSEA V LIVERPOOL, 2022

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It should have been the TENTH Anniversary for the FMPA Conference 2023 however we are delighted to welcome back our IN-PERSON event and our seventh.

The FMPA Conference is THE medicine and performance event in the professional sports world calendar. Combining excellence in educational content and networking opportunities for members and business partners alike. Join us for……

The Rehab T.E.A.M – Together Everyone Achieves More

We are sure you will all aware that no one person is ever responsible for a team’s success or failures and that no one person can be an expert in or deliver on everything needed, hence the saying “many hands make light work!”. However, there are also slightly conflicting viewpoints like “too many cooks spoil the broth” or “a little knowledge is dangerous!” so, how do we, as members, of the team behind the team ensure that there is a fully co-ordinated, integrated and well-learnt model of delivery to our players?

The aim of last year’s virtual conference series was to provide some bitesize digestible concepts and case studies to help educate practitioners of aspects not directly related to their own area of expertise and with this in mind this year we hope to bring together such concepts into an aligned and focussed face to face conference now we have the pandemic behind us.

In doing this, Education Co-ordinator, Kevin Paxton, has looked to structure presentations and case studies around the stages of the entire rehabilitation cycle of Clean-up, immediately post-injury, all the way through to the end stage return to Competition.

The conference will incorporate a variety of speaker disciplines that work with an injured player across all the phases of the rehabilitation process such as the Clean-up, acute stages of injury management through to the Clearance of necessary mobility and activation aspects to undertake more intermediate mid stage protocols of Co-ordination and Change of Direction through to end stage aspects whereby you Chase & Condition certain types of worse case scenarios and then finally onto the return to the 4-corner markers of being ready to Compete. We hope you will enjoy the wide spectrum of information on show and the engagement of discussing in person how we as practitioners can improve upon the process of;

“Rehabilitation