FEI vet discusses equine injury surveillance at medical meeting
A presentation on equine injury surveillance has been given by Yves Rossier, vice-chairman of the FEI Veterinary Committee, to the annual International Olympic Sports Federations’ Medical Commission Chairpersons conference held at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters inward Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Canadian, who was caput of the Olympic Veterinary Clinic inward Greenwich Park at the London 2012 Olympic Games, took a year’s sabbatical acquire out from his move every bit Professor of Equine Sports Medicine at the University of Montreal to consummate a written report on Injury Surveillance inward FEI Horses.
The FEI-funded written report on equine injuries also involved analysis of the approaches taken past times other sports regulators, including the IOC, International Federations together with horseracing authorities.
One of the substitution objectives of the written report was to review injury surveillance programmes (human together with equine) inward social club to fine-tune the existing FEI protocol together with innovate an improved model for FEI events.
The FEI has been collecting basic injury information from its events for approximately time, together with is currently developing a comprehensive database specifically for equine athletes.
The main role of the database, in i lawsuit sufficient statistics direct hold been collected, volition move to assist inward the prevention of injuries. Similar databases are used inward other global sports.
“The conference was a wonderful chance to listen what the other International Sports Federations are doing almost injury surveillance, together with to acquaint the FEI’s approach together with thus that nosotros could all larn from each other,” Rossier said.
“This is component subdivision of making sports every bit rubber every bit possible together with maintaining our absolute commitment to the welfare of our athletes.”
IOC President Jacques Rogge also addressed the conference, stressing the importance of the role played past times International Federation Medical Commissions together with their contribution to security inward sport.
More than xxx international federations were represented at the meeting, which was opened past times IOC Medical Commission chairman, Professor Arne Ljungqvist.
Dr Patrick Schamasch, who is retiring from his post service every bit IOC medical director, took the chance to innovate his successor, Richard Budgett, of Britain.
Peter Whitehead, acting chairman of the FEI Medical Committee together with principal medical officeholder for the Olympic equestrian events at Greenwich Park, also addressed the conference, together with spoke later on almost the value of such gatherings.
“This is the exclusively coming together where sports medical commissions move together to compare their concerns together with larn from each other. It’s a really valuable meeting,” he said.
The IOC is currently working on producing standardised injury surveillance for utilisation past times the dissimilar sports bodies. The FEI Medical Committee has been involved inward discussions on this number amongst the IOC over the past times year.
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