The 46th Congress of the ISMH was held in Italy in Salsomaggiore Terme, spa resort in Emilia-Romagna of 20,000 inhabitants with numerous and pretty art-deco style buildings. Initially scheduled in June the congress had to be postponed from October 19 to 21, 2022 due to the difficulties linked to the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Thanks to Professor Marco Vitale (Congress President) and Professor Antonella Fioravanti (Congress Co-Chair), the scientific program was of high quality.
The topics of the 5 scientific sessions were “Physiopathology and Mechanisms», «Rheumatology and Musculo-Skeletal conditions”, “Multi specialty DIVE session: Deep Insights Vein-lymphatic Education”,
“Lifestyles, Metabolic, Dermatologic and other conditions”, “Rehabilitation and post-Covid”.
The topics of the 6 lectures were -“Water as a natural resource of bacteria shaping the human gut microbiome” (Professor M Ventura, Italy), -“Crenotherapy for respiratory diseases: a paradigm of mechanisms and effect on pathophysiology” (Professor L. Taborda-Barata, Portugal), -“Balneotherapy and pain of musculoskeletal conditions: what evidence?” (Professor C. F. Roques-Latrille, France),
-« Lifestyle Medicine for Leaders: How to use the six pillars to thrive” (Professor E. P. Frates, USA), -” Covid 19 and the musculoskeletal system: clinical framework and functional recovery programs” Professor A. Frizziero, Italy)“ and -“ISMH cooperation with universities, medical organizations and health authorities” (Professor Cantista, Portugal).
In addition, 31 very interesting papers were presented by speakers from 11 countries (Italy, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Spain, France, Bulgaria, USA, Argentina, Nigeria, Japan, and China). Most lectures and selected presentations were on site, small number were via the web for speakers who were unable to make the trip.
Initially scheduled for Friday, October 21, the ISMH General Assembly had to be brought forward to Thursday, October 20 due to a technical problem completely independent of the congress (airport strike which precipitated the departure of President Pedro Cantista), which unfortunateley prevented the holding elections for the renewal of the members of the Board. During this General Assembly took
place the transmission of power between the former President Pedro Cantista and the new President Christian-François Roques (who had been elected during the General Assembly of the previous ISMH congress in Dax in 2021), the speeches of the former President and the new President, the moral report of the General Secretary (Alain Françon) and the financial report of the Treasurer (Araceli Muela Garcia).
The ISMH Board thanks the organizers for holding a quality congress despite many unfavourable external circumstances.
A.FRANÇON
