Congratulations to the following 2010 Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Award winners:

ASICS Medal – Best Paper Overall ($5000 prize including Best Paper award) Asics-Medal-winner-2010

Louise Naylor, The University of Western Australia
“Impact of shear stress on vascular function in humans: Explaining the direct impact of exercise on vascular health.”
Co-Authors: H. Carter, T. Cable, D. Thijssen & D. Green

Best Paper Awards

  • Asics Best Paper – Lower Limb ($2000)

Chris Handley, School of Human Biosciences, La Trobe University; Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University
“Overuse tendinopathy is characterised by changes in the metabolism of proteoglycans present in the extracellular matrix of tendons”
Co-Authors: J. Parkinson, T. Samiric, M. Ilic, J. Cook & J. Feller

  • Asics Best Paper – Clinical Sports Medicine ($2000)

Leo Pinczewski, North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre
“Long term survival of high Tibial Osteotomy for medial Osteoarthritis of the knee – 8 to 19 year follow-up in a series of 455 patients”
Co-Authors: C. Hui, L. Salmon, A. Kok, H. Williams, W. van der Tempel & R. Chana

  • Asics Best Paper – Exercise and Sports Science ($2000)

Louise Naylor, The University of Western Australia
“Impact of shear stress on vascular function in humans: Explaining the direct impact of exercise on vascular health.”
Co-Authors: H. Carter, T. Cable, D. Thijssen & D. Green

  • Asics Best Paper – Injury Prevention ($2000)

Dara Twomey, University of Ballarat
“Accuracy of the field-based injury and exposure data collection methods in a large scale injury prevention randomised controlled trial”
Co-Authors: C. Finch, T. Doyle, D. Lloyd & B. Elliot

  • Asics Best Paper – Physical Activity and Health Promotion ($2000)

David Lubans, The University of Newcastle
“Randomised controlled trial of the Physical Activity Leaders (PALs) program for low-active adolescent boys from disadvantaged secondary schools”
Co-Authors: P. Morgan, E. Aguiar & R. Callister

New Investigator Awards

  • Asics Award for Best New Investigator – Lower Limb (Presentation package at ACSM)

Ross Clark, ASICS Sports Medicine Research Fellow; The Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, The University of Melbourne
“Can the adductor longus transmit force across the pubic symphysis? Implications for the pathophysiology of athletic groin pain”
Co-Authors: K. Norton-Old, A. Schache, P. Priscilla, T. Dettmann, S. Harrison & C. Briggs

  • Ken Maguire Award for Best New Investigator – Clinical Sports Medicine ($2000)

Clare Ardern, Musculoskeletal Research Centre, La Trobe University
“Return to sport following ACL reconstruction surgery: Are our expectations for recovery too high?”
Co-Authors: K. Webster, N. Taylor & J. Fellar

  • John Sutton Award for Best New Investigator – Exercise and Sports Science ($2000)

Jamie Stanley, The School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland; Centre of Excellence Sports Science Research, Queensland Academy of Sport.
“The effect of hydrotherapy on cardiac parasympathetic recovery and exercise performance”
Co-Authors: J. Peake & M. Buchheit

  • NSW Sporting Injuries Committee Award for Best New Investigator – Injury Prevention ($2000)

Juliana Usman, School of Risk and Safety Sciences, The University of New South Wales
“The investigation of shoulder forces in Rugby Union”
Co-Authors: A. McIntosh & B. Frechede

  • Asics Award for Best New Investigator – Physical Activity and Health Promotion (Presentation package at ACSM)

Mitch Duncan, Institute for Health and Social Science Research, CQUniversity
“Population trends in adults physical activity, sedentary behaviour and overweight and obesity”
Co-Authors: C. Vandelanotte, C. Hanley, C. Caperchione & K. Mummery

Women in Sport Award

  • Wendy Ey Women in Sport Award ($500)

Angela Fearon, ANU Medical School, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, Australian National University; Trauma and Orthopaedic Research Unit, Surgery, Canberra Hospital
“Greater Trochanteric pain syndrome is not a benign condition to be ignored”
Co-Authors: J. Cook, J. Scarvell, W. Cormick & P. Smith

Poster Awards

  • Asics Best Poster – Clinical Sports Medicine ($500)

Narelle Wyndow, Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Melbourne Physiotherapy School, The University of Melbourne
“Neuromotor control of the triceps surae during gait in people with and without Achilles tendinopathy”
Co-Authors: S. Cowan, K. Crossley & T. Wrigley

  • Asics Best Poster – Exercise and Sports Science ($500)

Jason Bonacci, The University of Queensland and The Australian Institute of Sport
“Is plyometric training effective for correcting altered running neuromotor control post cycling in triathletes?”
Co-Authors: D. Green, P. Saunders, M. Franettovich, A. Chapman, P. Blanch & B. Vicenzino

  • Asics Best Poster – Injury Prevention ($500)

Evert Verhagen, EMGO Institute / VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands
“The impact of compliance on sports injury prevention effect estimates in randomized controlled trials”
Co-Authors: M. Hupperets, C. Finch & W. van Mechelen

  • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Award for Best Poster – Physical Activity and Health Promotion ($500)

Juliette Choong, University of Ballarat
“Pole-walking and the older adult: A thematic analysis”
Co-Author: W. Payne