Injury prevention and risk factors associated with exercise will be a focus at the America College of Sports Medicine 2016 Annual Meeting from May 31 to June 4 in Boston, Medscape reports.
Here are four takeaways:
1. Paul Thompson, MD, from Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, will give a presentation titled "Are There Clinical Cardiac Complications From Too Much Exercise?".
2. Douglas Casa, PhD, from the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, will deliver the President's Lecture on prevention methods for sudden death during athletic activity, as well as controversies surrounding the issue.
3. Three Keynote Lectures will focus on obesity issues:
- Michael Pratt, MD, from Emory University in Atlanta, will discuss physical inactivity’s economic costs
- Claude Bouchard, PhD, from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., will discuss the relationship between physicians, physiology and behavior and how the correlation affects body weight;
- John Blundell, PhD, from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, will propose a plan for regulating appetite
4. Several presentations will examine how schools’ introducing exercise may improve children's behavior and academic performance.