Guided Innovation Tour with check-up options

Every participant at the MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE will also have the opportunity to take part in a health and fitness check. This is offered to participants within the scope of the Guided Innovation Tour, which focuses on wearables and will take place in Hall 15 on November 13 in the afternoon.


Polyconnect is one of the companies taking part, represented by CEO Markus Stadler. They offer a portal solution for performance diagnostics, which automatically collects data from hundreds of different diagnostics and monitoring systems. Users select a personalized performance and readiness index that helps them manage these data. Several providers are involved in the project, for example for measuring jumping skills and / or body stability. Here, athletes are required to take part in examinations. The portal solution then collates the data for the trainer, who can then individually tailor the next measures. German soccer club FC Bayern München is already a customer. But offers like these are not just interesting for top sports. Companies can make these offers available to their employees to give them access to fitness tips like the pros.

Tailor-made programs for more active kids and senior citizens

The second day of the MECIDA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE (November 14) will start with session 4, which will present Tailored Exercise programs for certain target groups or persons. Children and adolescents are one of these target groups. Prof. Hans Holdhaus, founder and director of the Institute for Sports Medicine and Science (IMSB) Austria, will present his concept for physical education in nursery schools and specify the effects. The “bewegte kids” concept (only offered in German, translates to “moving kids”) contains a certified education program for nursery school teachers, after-school-care teachers and educators as well as practical implementation in nursery schools. The aim is to build a diverse range of movement skills at nursery school in such a manner that it can be used for life.

Dr. Birgit Böhm, Chair for Preventive Paediatrics at the Technical University of Munich, reaches two target groups at once. Senior citizens use her “Aschau fresh air bus” to take children to school on foot. The research project will run for two years and is a cooperation between the Technical University of Munich and the community Aschau im Chiemgau. The objective is to counteract the increasing lack of movement in children and senior citizens and motivate them to get more exercise together. Twice a week starting at 7:30 pm, older citizens and interested parents take children to nursery school on foot using one of six defined “bus routes”. These official routes have been mapped and posted with signs. This makes the project sustainable for a village, as the villagers will continue to run it on their own after the project phase has ended.

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