OMICS International organized the International Conference on Sports Medicine and Fitness during April 18-20, 2016 Dubai, UAE with a focus “To evaluate the science involved in sports medicine and fitness” where eminent keynote speakers from various reputed institutions made their resplendent presence and addressed the gathering.

Sports Medicine-2016 witnessed an amalgamation of peerless speakers who enlightened the crowd with their knowledge and confabulated on various newfangled topics related to the field of Sports and Fitness. Dr. Ahmad Alkhatib, form Abertay University presented a keynote presentation on “Metabolic exercise assessment: Methodological recommendations for clinicians, health and exercise professionals”; Dr. Harris Zourelidis from Dubai Healthcare City, UAE gave a keynote presentation on “Current concepts of treatment of ACL injuries”. Henrik C Bäcker from Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Switzerland presented a keynote speech on “Paragliding related vertebral injuries”; Dr. Vicki Cameron of Strathclyde University, UK enlightened the audience with her keynote presentation on “Barefoot and shod walking in virtual reality environment with Oxford foot model”; Dr. Sujata Khire form Welfare Medical Centre, UAE presented “Kinesio taping – Why it works and how it works?”; Dr. Aleksandar Cvorovic from Abu Dhabi Police College, UAE described about “Differences in the manifestation of explosive strength between extremities and between the genders in the case of young basketball players”; Dr. Kirill Alekseyev from Kingsbrook Rehabilitation Institute, USA presented his keynote speech on “To identify the most common fencing injuries in variety of competitors”, Ms. Sediqe Ebrahimipour from Birjand university, Iran gave her presentation on the “The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among dental practitioners”; Dr. Suad Alanzi from Ministry of Health, Kuwait presented “The effect of physical activity program for improving functional level of children with developmental coordination disorder”; Dr. Ashokan Arumugam from Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia enlightened the audience with his presentation entitled “The pitfalls of self-plagiarism: Implications for physical therapy research” Ms. Alexandra Maris from University of Toronto, Canada gave a paper presentation on “Deviant! Muscularity in women who do mixed martial arts: Navigating stereotypical femininity in different social contexts as a muscular woman who does MMA”; Mr. Paul George from Dubai Hospital, UAE presented about the “Physiotherapy management of meniscal repair- A post-surgical affair”.

Dr. Sujata Khire , from Welfare Medical Centre, UAE conducted a workshop on “Use of kinesio taping in the athletic population” on April 19, 2016, in connection with this conference as a curtain raiser to this topic.

Dr. Suad Alanzi from the Ministry of Health, Kuwait also conducted the workshop on “Desinging an effective physical activites program for children with developmental coordination disorder based on the ICF model”

Poster presentations were presented by students.

All the papers presented and accepted at the Sports Medicine-2016 will be published in the proceedings of the Medline indexed Journal ‘Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies’.