Virtual American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) 30th Annual Meeting

Virtual American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) 30th Annual Meeting is organized by American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM). This AMSSM 2021 CME Webinar will be held from Apr 13 - 18, 2021.

Purpose:
The AMSSM Annual Meeting is the premier educational meeting for sports medicine physicians and healthcare providers, and it highlights the latest research and medical practices to enhance the care of sports medicine patients.

Hot Topics:
• Presidential Keynote Speaker Billy Mills
• Cindy J. Chang, MD, FAMSSM Presenting the Hough Memorial Lecture
• What's the Latest - a Selection of Topics on the Most Up-to-Date Sports Medicine Knowledge
• Deep Dives into Essential Topics
• Opportunities to Exercise your Clinical Decision-Making Skills during the Sports Medicine Masqueraders
• Top Sports Medicine Research Presentations
• Gathering with Colleagues in AMSSM Interest Group

Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
• Describe how to give the right physical activity prescription to the right patient at the right time.
• Apply an equity lens to recognize the ongoing disparities in access to sport and how this impacts the health of our communities and our own treatment decisions.
• Recognize the ongoing workforce disparities that impact the field of sports medicine and consider solutions to enhance diversity of the field.
• Describe an evidence-based strategy for the evaluation of competitive athletes after COVID-19 infection.
• Describe specific strategies for safe return to sport for teams and for individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Describe how to craft policy to advance sports medicine access and care for everybody, and how the COVID-19 may present opportunities to further this goal.
• Identify 3 strategies that promote resilience in physicians in midst of a crisis.
• List 4 leadership techniques that are helpful in managing teams through a crisis.
• Identify specific ways to incorporate telehealth to enhance both patient care and your clinical practice.
• Identify sexual violence reporting requirements for sport medicine physicians and medical personnel.
• Design protocols for prevention, identification and treatment of athletes with regard to sexual and psychological abuse.
• Understand the evidence for plant-based and anti-inflammatory diet recommendations.
• Learn about the latest and greatest information about ergogenic aids including nitrates, supplementation to enhance muscle protein synthesis, treat tendinopathies, and supplements that decrease pathologic systemic inflammation.
• Define culinary medicine and how to take micronutrient knowledge and translate that into ingredient acquisition and preparing meals and snacks.
• List strategies for implementing culinary medicine into your regular patient care.
• List 4 criteria that must be met to introduce a regenerative medicine product into clinical practice.
• Explain the state of the science for the use of orthobiologics to treat knee osteoarthritis and lateral elbow tendinopathy.
• Discuss the use of shared decision making when counseling patients about orthobiologic interventions.
• List four elements that make up a successful care environment for transgender patients.
• Counsel a patient about the health risks of e-cigarette use.
• Explain the limitations of continuous glucose monitoring for an athlete with type 1 diabetes.
• Explain the state of the science around the menstrual period and its effects on athletic performance.
• Apply the most recent medical literature to compare and contrast injectable therapies and non-interventional treatment modalities for patients with osteoarthritis.
• Identify disease states that mimic the presentation of osteoarthritis.
• Formulate a clinical approach to certain chief complaints to distinguish when you may be dealing with a masquerader.
• Apply a biopsychosocial approach to prioritize treatments that best address the primary factors contributing to a patient’s pain.
• Understand the evidence regarding first-line treatment strategies for gluteal tendinopathy.
• Know the risks and benefits of ESWT in the treatment of upper and lower extremity tendinopathies.
• Describe recent evidence-based advances in the diagnosis and management of sport-related concussion.
• Recognize when it is appropriate to use a weighted ball velocity throwing program in throwing athletes.
• Identify appropriate imaging modalities to assess for an elbow medial ulnar collateral ligament injury in throwing athletes.
• Recognize and interpret injury prevention instruments in the throwing athlete to improve patient care.
• Highlight key patient interview and physical exam features that may indicate a diagnosis of ischiofemoral impingement and superior gluteal nerve entrapment during both in-clinic and telehealth consultations.
• Perform a virtual hip examination for FAI.
• Review the current rehabilitation modalities for FAI and to discuss the scientific literature for these modalities.
• Develop a differential diagnosis for pelvic floor pain in the female athletic population.
• Review the current potential treatment options for pelvic floor pain.
• Discuss the optimal imaging modality when evaluating for a potential spondylolysis.
• Evaluate the current scientific literature for non-operative care for spondylolysis.
• List the current recommendations from the Inter-Association Task force on the management of a Spine Injured Athlete.
• Describe the biomechanical principles of running and apply those principles to the management of common running related injuries.
• Explain the biomechanics of breast support for active women and how this affects their physical activity.
• Describe pharmacological approaches to difficult to treat stress fractures.