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Sports Physiotherapy Webinar
Sep 11, 2020
The
Department of Physiotherapy conducted a webinar on the 8th of
September 2020 in view of the World Physiotherapy Day. This was conducted using
the online platform ZOOM.
The
theme for the webinar was Sports Physiotherapy and two eminent speakers were
called as resource persons. The 1st session "An Overview of Non-Traumatic Shoulder Pain in Overhead Athletes"
was taken by Mr Ronnie Chatterjee.
He is Alumni from FMCAHS as he completed both his bachelor and Masters in
Musculoskeletal & Sports Physiotherapy and is currently also appointed by
BCCI a Physiotherapist for the Mizoram cricket team.
The
next session was carried out by Professor
Mark King, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Loughborough University. His topic was "Sports Biomechanics and Optimizing
Performance". Professor Mark is also appointed by the International Cricket
Council to detect fowl play for fast bowlers in international cricket. It was
an honour having him talk for our students and participants and was indeed a
great learning experience for all.
The
sessions were moderated by Ms Leah
Mohandas and Ms AshmitaPatrao.
The overall event was coordinated by the Incharge Course Coordinator, Mr Sydney
Rebello. Fifty to sixty participants took part in the Webinar and we received very positive feedback from the participants. Mr Arnold and Ms Leah have
designed E- certificates for the participants and these shall be sent to them
via e-mail.