Sports Injuries

Prof. Mahmut Nedim Doral, M.D., is internationally recognized for his expertise in orthopedic sports medicine. He has authored over 150 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 15 book chapters in internationally published books; he also acts as a referee for four national and five international journals. His last books entitled Intraarticular Fractures, Proprioception in Sports Medicine, and Shoulder Arthroplasty were published by Springer in 2018-2019. 
For over 30 years, Dr. Doral's major research interests have been in sports injuries and rehabilitation, arthroscopic and endoscopic surgery, basic science research in tendon injuries, and knee arthroplasty. He is the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and the Department of Sports Medicine at the Hacettepe University Medical School. He has been the director of the Hacettepe University Sports Medicine Center since 1995. He has been board member (2003-2009), program committee member (2004-2012), and membership committee chairman (2007-2011) of ISAKOS. He is also a past member of the scientific committee of ESSKA. He currently serves in the Executive Council of the Turkish National Olympic Committee; as executive committee chair of and newsletter editor at the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Associations; and also as newsletter editor at EFOST. Dr. Doral served as president of the Turkish Society of Orthopaedics & Traumatology (TOTBID) (2010-2011). He was the past president of EFOST (2000-2003), Asia-Pacific Knee Society (APKS/Knee Section of APOA) (2004-2006), and the Turkish Society of Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy and Knee Surgery (2002-2004), and past chief of the Medical Committee Turkish Federation of National Basketball Team. He is the founder and past president of the Turkish Society of Sports Traumatology. He was honored as distinguished visiting professor by the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering in 2006 and Kentucky University in 2009. He is the current elected president of APOA (Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association) since 2018 and Founder President of The Turkish Speaking Countries for Orthopaedics and Traumatology TÜRKOT-DER in 2020. He serves as the medical chief and health system organizer of Galatasaray Sports Club Youth Teams.

Prof. Jon Karlsson, M.D., Ph.D., was born in Iceland, where he graduated from the medical school in Reykjavik in 1978 and moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1981. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability" at the Gothenburg University in 1989 and was appointed associate professor in 1990. He has been senior consultant in the Orthopaedic Department of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital since 1991 and clinical head during 1997-2001. Since 2001, Dr. Karlsson has been the academic head at the Sahlgrenska Academy. In that capacity, he mentored 32 Ph.D. theses and was appointed chief of the orthopedic research laboratory. He is author of more than author of more than 600 peer-reviewed publications, more than 150 book chapters and over 40 textbooks in orthopaedics and sports traumatology. He was appointed professor of orthopedics and sports traumatology in 1998. He was president of the Swedish Association of Sports Medicine in 1999-2001. Since 2008, Dr. Karlsson has been editor-in-chief of KSSTA (Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy), the official journal of ESSKA. He has been program chairman of the biannual ESSKA congress for 2006, 2008, and 2010 and board member of ISAKOS since 2005. He is currently secretary of the ISAKOS Executive Board. Active in sports, Dr. Karlsson played basketball and is currently the caretaking physician of the Swedish soccer team IFK Gothenburg.

Prof. John Nyland is a sports-certified physical therapist, athletic trainer and strength and conditioning specialist.  He is a member of ESSKA, the Sports and Orthopaedic Sections

Olympic Sports Injuries and Prevention.- Ethical Issues in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine.- The Sports Healthcare Team.- Epidemiology and Prevention of Athletic Injuries Across the Lifespan.- The Physiology of Injury and Recovery.- Psychological aspects of sport injury prevention and rehabilitation.- Beyond sports injuries: mental health symptoms in elite athletes.- Nutrition needs During Recovery Following Athletic Injury.- Biological Tissue Healing Interventions.- Tissue Engineering Tendon and Ligament Repair and Reconstruction.- The Biomechanics of Knee Injuries and Recovery.- Healing of bone fractures and soft tissues in sports injuries.- Biomechanical Measurement Methods to Analyze the Mechanisms of Sport Injuries.- Biomaterials in Musculoskeletal Conditions.- The types of materials used for sports medicine surgery.- Patient Reported Outcome Measures: Past, Present, and Future.- Drugs and Supplements in Athletic Injury Recovery and Performance: WADA Perspective.- Sports Injuries and Sports Education in the Metaverse.- Augmented and Virtual Reality in sports trauma training and rehabilitation.- Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Decision-Making.- Placebo in Sports Medicine Research.- Cartilage Injuries: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Rehabilitation.- Cartilage injuries and Osteoarthritis.- Cartilage injuries, healing, overview of treatments and sequele.- Treatment of articular cartilage injuries.- Return to Activity After Cartilage Injury of the Knee.- Orthobiologic Cartilage Repair and Complex Computer-Assisted Joint Preservation.- Scaffold-free endogenous healing of articular cartilage lesion.- Cartilage Repair With Third and Fourth Generations of Chondrocyte Implantations.- Next-generation cartilage repair solutions; where are we?.- Rehabilitation after cartilage transplantation.- Return to Activity after Cartilage injury of the Ankle.- Stress Fractures: Risk Factors, Distribution, Diagnosis, and Treatment.- Sports and bone health.- Imaging of Stress Fractures and Involved Risk of Ionizing Radiation - Part A.- Imaging of Stress Fractures and Involved Risk of Ionizing Radiation - Part B.- Stress Fractures of the Pelvis and Hip.- Stress fractures of Tibia and Fibula.- Foot Stress Fractures.- Navicular stress fractures of the foot.- Connective Tissue Disorders in Athletic Healthcare.- Muscle injuries: Strains, contusions, ruptures.- Tendinopathies, When and How Should we Treat, What Works, What Does Not?.- Prevention of Hamstring Muscle Injuries in Sports.- Acute hamstring injury: Types, rehabilitation, and return to sports.- Achilles Tendinopathy and Insertional Problems.- Acute Achilles tendon ruptures.- Compartment syndromes of the lower leg.- Surgery of muscle injuries in sports: When and why?.- Endoscopic approach in achilles tendon rupture.- Achilles Tendinopathies: Diagnosis and Treatment.- Return to Play After Muscle and Tendon Injuries.- Chronic achilles tendon ruptures.- Neurological Aspects of Athletic Injury Recovery.- Neurocognition and Sport: An overview of its application to sports injury prevention and rehabilitation.- Surgery in Sports Traumatology: Research Pearls.- Functional Anatomy of the Spine.- Pathomechanics of Spinal Injury.- Sports Injuries of the Spine.- Dynamic Spinal Stabilization Training and Return to Sports.- Anatomy and Portals in Shoulder Arthroscopy.- Shoulder Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Rotator Interval.- Physical Examination of the Shoulder: Useful Major Sports-Related Aspects.- Subscapularis Tendon Tears: Physical Examination, Classification, Diagnosis and Repair.- Humeral Torsion in the Overhead Athlete.- Shoulder injury prevention strategies.- Sports-Related Shoulder Fractures: Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation.- Clavicular Fractures in Athletes.- Humerus fractures in sports.- Surgical Management of Posterosuperior Rotator Cuff Disorders.- Bone deficiencies in shoulder instability.- Biceps tendon Injuries.- The role of the biceps as an autograft in arthroscopic shoulder surgery.- Acromioclavicular Joint Injuries and Reconstruction.- Sports Injuries of The Sternoclavicular Joint.- Scapulothoracic disorders.- Rotator Cuff augmentation.- SLAP lesions.- Posterior Shoulder Instability with Reverse Hill-Sachs Lesion and Bone Loss.- Neglected Posterior Dislocations and Treatment Modalities.- Multidirectional and Minor Shoulder Instability.- Nerve Entrapment Syndromes and Techniques for Decompression in Sport.- Shoulder Arthroplasty and Sports.- Sports after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: Outcome and restriction.- Sports Axillary Nerve injury/palsy treatment options: Nerve and Muscle Transfer.- Return to Sport Participation After Shoulder Injuries - A Physiotherapists' Perspective.- Return to Sports Decisions Following Shoulder Surgery: Surgeon's Perspective.- Primary shoulder dislocation - to operate or not.- Accelerated Rehabilitation of Shoulder Injuries in Athletes.- Anatomy and Portals in Elbow Arthroscopy.- Physical examination of the elbow: Useful Major Sports Related Aspects.- Sports-related elbow problems.- Elbow fractures: Epidemiology, Types, and Return to Sports Considerations.- Fractures around the Elbow Related to Sports.