Lourdes: A congress around sports and rugby medicine

The cardiology-sports medicine and orthopedic surgery departments of the Tarbes-Lourdes hospital center are organizing their annual sports medicine congress, this Saturday, June 24, from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the Palais des Congrès in Lourdes.
This symposium, in this year of the World Cup in France, will be devoted to rugby. The various topics planned, with quality speakers, will address many important issues related to the practice of this sport.

Topics as varied as the impact of Covid on rugby, the practice of this sport as a health sport, but also the traumatology of rugby, in particular around the hip and spine, but also on concussion, will be discussed. The role of the mouth guard will also be questioned.
This event is open to health professionals: doctors, masseurs-physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropodists but also to athletes and their management, coaches, educators, leaders…