Sports Medicine Symposium: The Modern Athlete

The Sagamore Resort Lake George
June 10 - 12, 2019

Recap

On June 10-12th at Lake George NYU Langone Health hosted Sports Medicine Symposium: The Modern Athlete, a three-day symposium on current practices and innovations in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions used for recreational and elite athletes. The course reviewed the current literature and highlight the latest management principles for the endurance athlete, the overhead athlete, and the young athlete. Attendees had the opportunity to perform evidence-based musculoskeletal examinations, practice diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound, enhance joint and soft tissue injection skills, and enhance their knowledge of orthobiologics, strength training, biomechanics, video analysis, and exercise physiology. The goal of the course was to enable clinicians to feel comfortable with the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic modalities used for today’s modern athlete.

Dr. Laith Jazrawi, Chief of Sports Medicine at NYU Langone Orthopedics presented "Orthobiologics: Is There a Place for the Endurance Athlete?", "Pediatric Considerations: UCL Injuries – What Are We Doing Wrong?", and "The Young Athlete with and ACL Tear - Are We Back to Repair?"