Conference explores jockey safety and health
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The latest developments inwards medical together with technological inquiry that may meliorate the welfare, wellness together with security of jockeys are beingness presented at an international conference inwards New Bailiwick of Jersey this weekend.
The conference, organized yesteryear the European Racing Medical Officers Group together with administered nether the auspices of the International Federation of Horse Racing Authorities, is beingness held at Monmouth Park racecourse at Oceanport.
“The impetus for this is that jockeys continue getting bigger together with bigger together with they frequently undertake well-documented together with drastic measures to reduce,” said Denis Egan, caput of the Irish Gaelic Turf Club, who was instrumental inwards setting the agenda.
“The consequence is that these measures consequence inwards serious wellness issues for them afterwards inwards life together with nosotros are trying to meliorate their lives.
“There are all kinds of conferences most the welfare of the Equus caballus that are held roughly the world, precisely this is the entirely i that is for the riders.”
More than l nutritionists, medical doctors, researchers, administrators, together with other wellness attention professionals who specialize inwards this expanse volition introduce their findings to racing manufacture representatives from roughly the globe.
This year’s conference is the quaternary of its sort together with the starting fourth dimension inwards the U.S. of A. of America next the previous meetings inwards Japan, Turkey together with Dubai.
Egan said that the agenda items include inquiry on nutrition, concussions, trauma protocol, race 24-hour interval falls, together with security equipment, summation updates from each of the countries represented on special issues relative to the private jurisdiction.
The national manager of the Jockeys’ Guild, Terry Meyocks, said: “I intend this is non bad together with it is incredibly of import that the riders together with other professionals inwards the sport continue abreast of all of the latest information available on all of these subjects.
“The information that volition travel presented, particularly on getting safer equipment – whether that travel helmets, vests or whatever of the residual – is vital non entirely for jockeys precisely for do riders equally well.”
Dr Angelo Chinnici, the medical manager of Monmouth Park together with the Guild together with an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Medicine together with Dentistry inwards New Jersey, was instrumental inwards bringing the conference to Monmouth Park.
“They called together with asked me to travel a speaker at the conference, which was originally scheduled for a hotel inwards Philadelphia,” Chinnici said.
“I suggested that they come upwards to the rails together with they accepted.”
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