my friends Mitsu and Toru
18.12.2012. near Tokyo, Japan. With my good friends Mitsu and Toru, we visit the famous Owakudani Natural Hot Springs in the Hakone National Park.
11+ @ JISS, Tokyo
17.12.2012. Japanese Institute of Sports Sciences (JISS), Tokyo, Japan. This is already our 3rd joint course with the Japanese Football Association (JFA) for promoting and implementing the FIFA 11+ injury prevention programme. A special thank to. Prof. T.Fukubayashi, M.Tsumaki and the assistants and friends Michiko, Hitomi, Mariko, Keigo, Hiroshi and Naoki.
Corinthians wins FCWC 2012
16.12.2012, Yokohama Stadium, Japan. Corinthians-Chelsea 1:0, and wins the FCWC for the 2nd time.
A special thought to our friends sports PTs of Corinthians: Beto and Bruno!
FCWC Japan 2012
06.12.2012, Tokyo, Japan -Yokohama Stadium. First match of this year's FCWC in Japan. F-MARC is again proud to have its programmes (11 for health, and 11+) showcased among the official stadium banners of this tournament.
LA Galaxy win MLS Cup again
01.12.2012, Los Angeles, USA - Home Depot Stadium. LA Galaxy win the MLS Cup for the 2nd consecutive year. In Beckham's last game in LA, captain Landon Donovan and its team beat Houston by 3:1. F-MARC congratulates Landon and friends (incl. Team Doctor Bert Mandelbaum and Holly Silvers), great ambassadors of the 11+ injury prevention programme.
First IFSPT conference
29.11.2012, Las Vegas, USA. IFSPT organizes a pre-conference in cooperation with SPTS and its renowned TCC congress: ca. 120 participants for the pr-conference, and later more than 400 for the TCC program, a record year for SPTS!
IFSPT friends
29.11.2012, Las Vegas, USA. Here the line-up of the international speakers of the first IFSPT pre-conference at TCC: N.Phillips (Wales), M.Bizzini (Switzerland), M.Dalgleish (Australia) T.Schneiders (New Zealand) , M.Constantinou (Australia), B.Andersen (Denmark), T.Brown (USA), S.Mutch (Scotland), and H.Langberg (Denmark).
IFSPT @ Bern SSPA 2012
16.11.2012. Bern, Switzerland. The International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT) was represented by its President Dr. Nicki Phillips (Cardiff, Wales) at the SSPA conference. In a couple of weeks, IFSPT will held a pre-conference at the prestigious Team Concept Conference-Global Goals of the SPTS (Las Vegas, USA).
What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
16.11.2012. Karim ("K2"), a strong advocate of physical activity for public health (not only talking... he exercises daily ca. 60 minutes!), shows at the Swiss Sports PT conference the clip "23 and 1/2 hours: what is the single best thing we can do for our health?" by Dr. Mike Evans. Have a look on youtube if you've never seen this great clip!
Karim @ Bern SSPA 2012
16.11.2012. Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Karim Khan (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), a very good friend, joined us for the 10th SSPA conference in Bern. He's Editor of BJSM and of the renowned CSM book, now in its fourth edition! - Jill Cook, PhD, PT, researcher (co-author with Karim of many papers) form the Monash University (Australia), and Deputy editor of BJSM, was also invited speaker in Bern.
10th SSPA conference
16.11.2012, Bern, Switzerland. 10th annual conference of our Swiss Sports PT Association at BernExpo. Many young PT students in our staff, and an impressive line up of renowned international speakers : K.Khan, J.Cook, N.Phillips, J.Irrgang, K.Wilk and P.Glasgow ... and more than 350 participants!
Jay & Kevin
15.11.2012, Bern, Switzerland. My two US friends Jay Irrgang (Pittsburgh, PA) and Kevin Wilk (Birmingham, AL) are visiting Zürich and Bern before speaking at tomorrow's Swiss Sports PT conference.