Professor Graham Smith is a rehabilitation and sports injury consultant, a Fellow and Vice President of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Chairman of the The Society of Sports Therapists. He has an extensive background in the treatment, management and rehabilitation of injuries at all levels of the sporting spectrum.  He is an external lecturer for the MSc in Sports Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin.  He was responsible for the setting up and running the Football Association National Rehabilitation Centre at Lilleshall and he has also worked with the British Olympic and representative teams.  Now, alongside working in his clinic in Glasgow and consultancy commitments, he lectures extensively nationally and internationally on the rehabilitation of the musculoskeletal injuries and sports injury management.

Graham Smith will bring the latest research in terms of the role of the coach in the rehabilitation of players.  He will draw on current evidence of best practice guidelines for the coach’s rehabilitative work and then apply these in a practical way in his workshops at 11 and 2.00.  He will use a number of simple pieces of equipment available to all coaches to highlight effective ways of assisting the player through the rehab programme and in doing so keep the player motivated.