A seminar entitled "Raising awareness of sports doctors on doping, food additives, emergency care during sporting events, and treatment of injuries" was held at the initiative of ARMNOC.

The seminar, held at the ARMNOC headquarters in Yerevan, was funded by the International Olympic Committee  (IOC) Olympic Solidarity programme.

Among the guests was Professor Pavel Karsadze, head of the Department of Sports Medicine and Medical Rehabilitation of the Tbilisi State Medical University, a member of the executive committee of the Anti-Doping Organization of the Eastern European Region and head of the Anti-Doping Service of Georgia.

Kasradze delivered a report on the topic "Using Plasmolift for the Treatment of Sports Injuries".

He said: "We have long been cooperating with our Armenian colleagues, including the Armenian Olympic team physician David Mosinian and the team’s coach Karen Stepanyan. 

"Often, we exchange ideas about methods that we use in our work."

Kasradze said that plasmoliftling was a procedure for injecting an own-blood plasma, rich in thrombocytes.

This method has been used for almost nine years in Georgia. 

The method was once illegal but was removed from the list of World Anti-Doping Agency's list of prohibitions in 2011 because there was no evidence it enhanced athletes performances. 

“We would like to start the procedure in Armenia as well," Kasradze said. 

"There is such a need and we are ready to work closely on this issue."