"Explore - Enlighten - Perform" - this was the title of the 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), which took place from July 4 to 7, 2023, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. In addition to more than 2,300 presentations by 100 invited speakers, a joint symposium of the ECSS and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was held one year before the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. High-level researchers presented their work developed at the IOC's Injury and Disease Prevention Research Centers.
As part of the Congress, the Department of Sport and Health Sciences was represented with one lecture, four oral presentations and six posters.
Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler, head of the Assistant Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition and Health, gave an invited talk on "Advances in the field of RED-S science" in the symposium "The IOC Consensus Statement of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S) - 2023 Update".
"The focus of my presentation was on the new research with regard to RED-S and what has been happening in terms of new findings on this in the last four to five years," explained the PhD nutritionist. "Among other things, I pointed out the effects of an energy deficit on different parameters of performance and health, and how the science has evolved in this regard. For example, RED-S has been studied primarily in the context of women, but is becoming more of an issue in men as well."
In addition, members from the Chair of Human Movement Science (Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermsdörfer), the Associate Professorship of Biomechanics in Sports (Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz), the Assistant Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition and Health (Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler), the Associate Professorship of Exercise Biology (Prof. Dr. Henning Wackerhage), the Applied Sports Science Unit (Dr. Peter Spitzenpfeil) and the Prevention Center (Dr. Fabian Stöcker) gave oral presentations and presented posters on various topics.
Oral presentations:
- J. Kern/P. Gulde/J. Hermsdörfer: „Investigating the effects of repetitive soccer heading on cognitive and sensorimotor performances in female soccer players – a prospective approach“
- K. Haggenmüller/J. Urbano/J. Riviero/J. Hermsdörfer: „Putting yips in golf novices. Prevalence and task dependency”
- D. Appelhans/M. Knopp/M. Schönfelder: „Systematic Review of 92 marathon training plans“
- V. Kraft/J. Hermsdörfer: „The retention of explicit but not implicit motor memory can be impaired by cardiovascular exercise: the moderating effect of fitness level“
Poster:
- C. Höchsmann/M. Leßmann/J. Renner/K. Köhler: „Effect of different types of aerobic exercise on hunger, food choices, and ad libitum post-exercise food intake”.
- D. Holzer/C. Hummel/F. K. Paternoster/F. Stöcker/F. Thiele: „Is markerless motion tracking a feasible approach for in field kinemativ analysis of weightlifting?”
- M. Schönfelder/M. Heiber/F. Grätz/H. Wackerhage: „Indoor endurance exercise provokes higher aerosol particle emission and poses a higher risk of infection than resistance exercise“
- J. Manieu Seguel/F. K. Paternoster: „Residual force enhancement in the descending limb: is there a limit?”
- D. Rasp/F. K. Paternoster/F. Hanika/A. Schwirtz: „Taking the horizontal force component of the 90:20 IPC test into account increases sensitivity to detect muscle fatigue of the posterior chain and lamb asymmetries“
- F. Paternoster/L. Mehmenti/N. Mahnic: „Tissue compression stiffness of lower limb muscle groups using a low-cost device and its relation to oxygen cost while running“
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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler
Assistant Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition and Health
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62
80992 München
phone: 089 289 24488
e-mail: karsten.koehler(at)tum.de
Text: Romy Schwaiger
Photos: Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler