BONE AND TENDON

1. Understand how bones and tendons are stressed during different sports

2. ⁠Understand how bones and tendons respond to this load

3. Understand how bone and tendon injuries occur from a biomechanical perspective and how issues such as growth, insufficient energy (RED-S), and other peripheral issues can influence this

4. Knowing and being able to apply the latest training protocols aimed at preventing and rehabilitating bone and tendon injuries in healthy and injured athletes.

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1. Strength & Conditioning Coaches

2. Physiotherapists

3. Personal Trainers

Bas Van Hooren (PhD), is a sport science consultant, strength and conditioning specialist and athlete. He obtained a PhD on injury prevention and performance enhancement in running-based sports in 2024 at Maastricht university. Bas has been involved as a sport science consultant for various professional organizations and has been active as a strength and conditioning coach at the Dutch Olympic committee. As an athlete he has won several medals at the Dutch national championships, and he became Dutch National champion in 2017. He is currently still competing at the (inter)national level.

Bas combines his theoretical knowledge as a sport scientist/researcher with practical experiences from being an athlete and coach to translate complex theoretical concepts into useful and evidence-based practical applications. He has published over 55 journal articles on topics ranging from biomechanics to exercise physiology and has given multiple workshops on sport science related topics for a variety of audiences throughout Europe.

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