Medical

Recent Medical Activities

  • Medical Seminar | World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025  

The World Aquatics Medical Seminar in Singapore built on the inaugural edition at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships – Budapest 2024, and had a particular focus on enhancing injury prevention, recovery and development of young athletes. 

The seminar offered a dynamic program featuring interactive workshops and sessions on a range of critical topics. Key areas of focus included: 

Assessment of Elite Swimmers - A Physiotherapist Approach (D. Moedas, POR) The Rotator Cuff Dilemma: Rethinking Shoulder Health in Competitive Swimmers (D. Kin, SGP) Recovery and Nutrition - Supplements (Dr. Safwat, EGY) Injury prevention strategies in elite swimmers (R. Smyth, IRL) Biomechanics and injury prevention (R. Mark, USA) Recovery in competitive swimming: integrating science with athlete-centered practice (Dr. Taim, Dr. Choo and Ms. Zhou, SGP)

  • Medical Seminar | World Aquatics Swimming Championships Budapest 2024 

As part of the World Aquatics Swimming Championships Budapest 2024, we successfully organized a medical seminar in cooperation with Semmelweis University of Budapest aimed at providing valuable information and sharing expertise with doctors, physiotherapists, other medical personnel and coaches involved in athlete care. 

The seminar featured interactive workshops on critical topics, including: 

Injury-Related Biomechanics in Swimming (R. Mark) Swimmer’s shoulder: etiology, symptoms, treatment and prevention (Attila Pavlik) Seminar -Shoulder-Gréta Sinka Seminar-Shoulder-Petra Katrics

Our keynote sessions brought together experts to discuss Medical Care of Athletes over the year through insights and experiences from four teams doctors. 

Presentation - Dr. Robert Brunelle, Team Canada Presentation - Dr. Nóra Sydo, Team Hungary Presentation - Dr. Takuro Uchida, Team Japan Presentation - Dr. Ankit Shah, Team USA

The focus of the seminar revolved around shoulder recovery, a crucial subject for athletes, particularly swimmers. The discussion was enriched by perspectives from an Athlete, who shared firsthand experiences and challenges in recovery; a Team Physician, who outlined the medical approach to shoulder injuries; and a Coach, who provided insight into training adaptations during recovery. 

This seminar fostered a collaborative exchange of ideas, advancing knowledge in sports medicine and athlete health care.

Injury Prevention

  • Knee Injury Prevention

All the aquatic sports test the knee to its limits. This video will demonstrate how maximal power is produced by the knee, starting with lower core power through strength training, hip strength and stability, and finally a strong and flexible knee. The exercises shown in this video will help the athlete avoid knee injury by learning to use the production of core strength, then transmitting the power from the core through the hip in its various positions and into the knee to produce its multidirectional forces.

  • Lumbar Spine Injury Prevention

The low back is one of the more common sights seen for physical injuries in the aquatic disciplines. This video discusses the prevalence and causes of low back pain and injuries among elite swimmers.

  • Shoulder Injury Prevention

The shoulder joint injury is the most common injury seen in all of the aquatic disciplines of swimming, artistic swimming, diving, open water swimming, and water polo. This video will describe how the shoulder joint functions and then show a series of exercises to best protect the shoulder from injury and prevent time loss from training and competition.