The MOC Medical Commission in collaboration with the Olympic Solidarity and the Health Promotion Department are organising once again a medical seminar this time on the topic ‘The role of sports science in young athletes’.

This seminar will take place over three days from next Friday to Sunday (18-20 November) at the Dolmen Resort Hotel, Bugibba.

Topics that will be covered include the problem of obesity in Malta, the role of nutritional supplements in young athletes, acute sport injuries in children, physiotherapeutic modalities in children, chronic sport injuries in children, medical problems in young female athletes.

Speakers will include a number of local and foreign guests Prof. Arrigo Giombini, Institute of Sport Medicine – CONI (Italy) and local speakers Dr Kirill Micallef Stafrace Executive member European Feder-

ation of Sports Medicine Assocations, Dr Lucienne Attard, Dr John Buhagiar, Mr Ivan Riolo (IPES), Mr Milos Stanisavljevic (Physiotherapist S.E.R.C), Mr Raymond Bezzina (Physiotherapist Foot-

mania), Adele Muscat (Sports Psychologist); Lucienne Pace and Maria Ellul from the Health Promotion Department.

The purpose of the seminar is to raise the awareness of healthy living and other ways and means of improving one’s healthin our ever-changing society, especially for children.