EXERCISE FOR HEALTH AND REHABILITATION

Institute of Sports of Nursing Faculty of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Lithuanian Federation of Sports Medicine

Invite You to the International Conference

EXERCISE FOR HEALTH AND REHABILITATION

The 18^th of December, 2015

Kaunas, Lithuania

It is a great honour to invite You to take part in the International scientific conference „EXERCISE FOR HEALTH AND REHABILITATION”. The aim of the conference is to bring together physiotherapists, occupational therapists, adapted physical activity specialists, sports medicine doctors, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, trainers and all who are interested in the health strenghthening and rehabiltation modalities.

Main topics:

• Physical activity for health strengthening

• Physical medicine and rehabilitation

• Sports medicine

• Exercise physiology

I sincerely hope to welcome you to Kaunas on the occasion of our conference.

Prof. Rimtautas Gudas

Chairman of Organizing Committee

CONFERENCE VENUE

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Žalčio Hall and Institute of Sports Auditorium, Tilžės str. 18, Kaunas, Lithuania

The official language of the conference is English.

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Prof. Dr. Rimtautas Gudas (Head of Institute of Sports, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania)
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn (Director of Institute of Sports, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
• Pirkko Mäntykivi (Physioterapist, MSc, School of Health Care and Social Work Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
• Marjut Koivisto (Physioterapist, MSc, School of Health Care and Social Work Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
• Mati Arend  (Physiotherapist, MSc, PhD candidate, Faculty of Exercise and Sports Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Dr. Simona Pajaujienė (Lecturer and coordinator at the Department of Coaching Science, Lithuanian Sports University, Lithuania)
• Manfred Moritz  (Physiotherapist / own holistic health practice ( more than 20 years ), Teacher for Yoga and F.M Alexandertechnik, Practioner of Professional Applied Kinesiology, International Instructor K-active Taping, Germany)
• Dr. Aurelijus Domeika (Labaratory of Biomechatronics, Institute of Mechatronics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman

• Prof. Dr. Rimtautas Gudas (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)

Co-Chair

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laimonas Šiupšinskas (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)

Members

• Prof. Dr. Alfonsas Vainoras (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Prof. Dr. Jonas Poderys (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristina Berškienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Algė Daunoravičienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alma Kajėnienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vytautas Poškaitis (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Renata Žumbakytė-Šermukšnienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Dr. Ernesta Gurskienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Dr. Vilma Mauricienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Dr. Brigita Zachovajevienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Ingrida Daunoravičiūtė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Ginvilė Petrulytė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Margarita Radžiūnienė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Deivydas Velička (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)
• Vidmantas Zaveckas (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)

General secretary

• Dr. Viktorija Repšaitė (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Sports)   [email protected]

REGISTRATION

We kindly invite you to join us by submitting the registration form at http://ktakademija.lt/courses/exercise-for-health-and-rehabilitation/. Registration is online only.

CONFERENCE FEE:

Conference fee includes:

• Admission to all conference sessions;

• Coffee breaks;

• Certificate of attendance issued by Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (8 hours).

Registration fee should be transferred to the bank account in EUROS:

Beneficiary name: VšĮ „Kineziterapijos akademija“

Bank name: SWEDBANK

SWIFT code: HABALT22

Bank code: 73000

Account: LT537300010138355925

Payment details: Full name, surname – Exercise for Health and Rehabilitation

Important note: all transfer charges must be paid by the sender.

Invoices will be available during the conference.

CALL FOR THE ABSTRACTS

Abstract submission will open on the 2^nd of November, 2015.

You are kindly invited to present original research work as oral or poster presentations on the following topics:

• Physical activity for health strengthening

• Physical medicine and rehabilitation

• Sports medicine

• Exercise physiology

All abstracts should be submitted before the 27^th of November, 2015. The deadline of notification of abstract acceptance is the 4^th of December, 2015. Each author can submit only one abstract as the first author. Conference abstracts will be reviewed by one independent referee.

Conference Secretariat will inform the abstract submitter about the acceptance/rejection of submitted abstracts by e-mail. The abstract submitter is responsible for informing all co-authors about the status of the abstract. Abstracts’ presenters must be registered and have paid registration fees for the conference till the 27^th of November, 2015 in order to secure their oral or poster presentation during the conference and the abstract publication in the electronic Book of Abstracts (ISBN).

Please contact Conference Secretariat at [email protected] if you have not received your notification e-mail till the 4^th of December, 2015.

Abstract requirements

The abstract should be submitted in English: the author is responsible for grammar and spelling check.

The abstract must be originally written, previously not published. Literature reviews won‘t be accepted.

The abstract should be structured in the following order:

1. Title.

2. Researcher(s).

3. Institution(s).

4. Introduction: background and relevance of the research (500 symbols).

5. Research aim (250 symbols).

6. Research methods and organization (2000 symbols): description of research participants, methods and materials used in the research, statistical methods.

7. Results (2000 symbols).

8. Conclusions (500 symbols).

9. Reference list (Vancouver citation style).

Tables and graphs in abstract submission are not allowed.

Each accepted abstract must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to decide about the type of presentation (oral or poster). The duration of presentations: oral – 7 min presentation, 3 min. discussion; poster – 5 min presentation followed by a short discussion.

Poster presentation: area for one poster presentation is 90 cm (height) x 65 cm (width). At the top of the poster the title (in capital letters not smaller than 24 pt) should appear, the names and the organizations of the authors should follow the title. Font size of the main text should be not smaller than 20 pt.

 Date of  the end of submission of abstracts, early registration and early registration fee extended till December 3, 2015