A football medicine and science conference hosted by Teesside University and Middlesbrough FC and sponsored by Perform Better

PROGRAMME

9.10am Welcome
Iain Spears and Bryan English

9.15am What’s in it for the business? The benefits of a university-club collaboration
Mark Simpson and Robin Bloom 

9.45am Individual responses during group training programmes
Greg Atkinson and Alan Batterham
Chairs: Matthew Weston and Jonathan Madden

10.30am Refreshments

10.45am Time to train, when to do what and the influence of time scheduling on performance and training responses
Barry Drust and Greg Atkinson
Chairs: Matt Portas and Jonathan Madden

11.30am Making sense of training data
Matthew Weston and Jonathan Madden
Chairs: Alan Batterham and Chris Rusling

12.15pm Lunch
Poster sessions and sponsors’ exhibitions 

1.15pm Make your own cloud-based app: simple feedback for players
Iain Spears and Adam Kerr
Chairs: Greg Atkinson and Jonathan Madden

(SupplementaryFiles)

2.00pm Hamstrings - a thing of the past - due to the manager, the medic or the magician?
Bryan English and Paul Chesterton
Chairs: Iain Spears and Chris Moseley

2.45pm Refreshments

3.00pm Performance support to a large European club
Rick Menick
Chairs: Bryan English and Matthew Weston

3.45pm Q&A: What’s in it for us? Players’ and managers’ perspectives on good and bad sport science and medicine
Jonathan Woodgate, Chris Moseley, Alan Batterham and Barry Drust
Chairs: Bryan English and Matt Portas

4.30pm Final discussion and closing remarks