Program

Final program 28 October 2011
Monday 28 November 2011
9:00 - 9:15 hours 
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Phil Borgeaud AIS Acting Director (AIS Theatrette)
9:15 - 10:15 hours 

Presentation (Keynote - AIS Theatrette)
Keynote Address - Title TBC
Dr Mario Lafortune

10:15 -10:45 hours

Presentation (AIS Theatrette)
Invited Presentation
Noel Donaldson - Head Coach, Rowing Australia

 

10:45 - 11:15 hours

MORNING TEA - INDOOR SOCCER AREA

 

11:15 - 12:15
hours

Gold Room

11:15 - Richard Smith - Joints range of motion during sculling on a laboratory mounted single scull


11:30 - Conny Draper - Stability & efficiency of rowing technique & performance during racing in the LM4-boat category


11:45 - Andrew Greene - Kinematic and kinetic comparison of slide based rowing ergometers


12:00 - Joe Gomory - Stationary versus dynamic dragon boat paddling


Silver Room  

11:15 - Fausto Panizzolo - The effect of age on soleus fascicle function during walking

 

11:30 - Rob Herbert - In vivo passive mechanical behaviour of muscle fascicles and tendons in human gastrocnemius muscle-tendon units

 

11:45 - Yi-Chung Lin - Function of the gluteus medius during gait

 

12:00 - Mariana Kersh - Can changes in vastus medialis alter patellofemoral stress in subjects with osteoarthritis?

 

12:15 - 13:45 hours

 

LUNCH - INDOOR SOCCER AREA

 

13:45 - 14:45 hours

Gold Room

13:45 - Rene Ferdinands - Lower limb kinetics in cricket fast bowling


14:00 - Kane Middleton - Elbow morphological influences on ball release velocity in cricket fast bowlers


14:15 - Chris McCosker - Ball kinematics in swing bowling: Influence of wrist kinematics


14:30 - Sara Brice - Prediction of hammer speed from cable force in the hammer throw


Silver Room 

 13:45 - Katie Ewing - Side-to-side differences in knee kinematics and kinetics during a single-leg drop landing from two heights in female athletes


14:00 - Corey Scholes - Single-subject analysis reveals varied kenn mechanics during step landing in response to isokinetic fatigue of the quadriceps

 

14:15 - Daina Sturnieks - Stepping responses to force-controlled perturbations predict falls in older adults

 

14:30 - Anna Hatton - The effect of fatigue on obstacle negotiation during walking in older adults: preliminary

14:45 - 15:15 hours
 

 

AFTERNOON TEA - INDOOR SOCCER AREA

15:15 - 17:00 hours

Biomechanics Labs (2 x 50 minute demonstrations with 5 minutes change over)

Swimming Testing Demonstration

Kicking Feedback Demonstration


Travel to Restaurant
19:00 - 22:00 hours

Tilley's (Corner of Brigalow & Wattle Streets, Lyneham)

ABC8 Conference Function

Tuesday 29 November 2011
9:00 - 10:00 hours 

Presentation (Keynote - AIS Theatrette)
Keynote Address - Title TBC
Dr Thor Besier

10:00 - 10:30 hours 

Presentation (AIS Theatrette)
Invited Presentation
Invited speaker - Marcus Pandy

10:30 -11:00 hours

Presentation (AIS Theatrette)
Invited Presentation
Invited speaker - Graham Kerr

11:00 - 11:30 hours
MORNING TEA - INDOOR SOCCER AREA
11:30 - 12:30 hours

Gold Room  

11:30 - Nicole Grigg - The acute transverse strain response of the patellar tendon to quadriceps exercise

 

11:45 - Kristy Tan - Towards streamlining rheological tests and characterising soft biological tissues under combined loading and large amplitude oscillatory shear

 

12:00 - Mariana Kersh - Optimization of collateral ligament parameters in a subject specific finite element model of the knee

 

12:15 - Elizabeth Clarke - CSF flow and Syringomyelia in Chiari Malformation


Silver Room  

11:30 - Johnpaul Caia - A cross-sectional lower-body power profile of elite and sub-elite Australian football players

 

11:45 - Andrew Lyttle - Comparison between freestyle kicking at the water surface and the underwater using computational fluid dynamics

 

12:00 - Amity Campbell - Comparison of upper limb kinematics during the volleyball spike between players with and without a history of shoulder injury

 

12:15 - Rebecca Millifont - Musculoskeletal screening, clinical strength and force relationships to detect asymmetry in swimming 

12:30 - 14:00 hours
 

LUNCH AND ANZSB MEETING - INDOOR SOCCER AREA

 

14:00 - 15:00 hours

Gold Room  

14:00 - David Ackland - Rotational moment arms of the shoulder musculature after reverse total shoulder musculature after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty

14:15 - David Ackland - Sensitivity of muscle function to changes in moment arms and muscle-tendon properties

 14:30 - Lisa Scott - Effect of athlete motion-control footwear on lower limb muscle activity during walking

 14:45 - Prasanna Sritharan - The effect of the prime movers in running on tibiofemoral compartment force


Silver Room (capacity 80)

 

14:00 - Eliza Keaney - The physical load of non-snow aerial skiing training

 14:15 - Ami Drory - A mathematical model for estimation of time saved in road cycling descents through reduction in aerodynamic drag achieved via modications to static rider position

 14:30 - Hiram Brooke - Movement variability of pre-elite Australian football athletes with and without groin injury

 14:45 - Daniel Wundersitz - Validity of accelerometer to measure running and change of direction peak force

 
15:05 - 15:50 hours

AIS Theatrette

Panel Discussion
Mario Lafortune, Thor Besier, Bruce Mason, Julie Steele

15:50 - 16:00 hours

Close - ANZSB president - Andy Cresswell

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