Abstract

Welcome to the 1st ASEAN Sports Medicine Conference 2015. This conference brings together orthopaedic surgeons, sports physicians, physiotherapists, sports science practitioners, trainers, coaches, other allied health professions and students all with a common link of managing a multitude of conditions related to sports.The theme for the conference is Enhancing Performance Through Sports Medicine & Sports Science which will bring together a variety of exciting topics towards this goal. This would allow the implementation of current research and state of the art understanding in Sports Science to be put into practice and also the current treatment of sports injury. The content of this conference is designed to address the challenges faced by our professionals in their daily clinical practice. There will be presentations of these topics by experts in their field from ASEAN countries and beyond.