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Paradoxical Vocal Cord Disorder – 317
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Myra Reed first experienced PVCD with an athlete, and has since had more than one athlete, especially distance runners.
Vocal Cord Disorder can easily be mistaken for Exercise Induced Asthma but is not the same. Mayra recommends asking “is your inhaler working for you” to help figure out if it is truly asthma or maybe something else. However some athletes have been diagnosed with both.
Pursed lip breathing: Form your lips as if whistling, breath in through the nose and out through the mouth focusing on slowing the breathing as you do 10 repetitions.
Show Notes for 317
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Justifying Your Value as an Athletic Trainer – 316
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Forrest Pecha was part of a research team that took data from one part time athletic trainer in a high school. They calculated the dollar value patients would have paid if the services provided were billed to an insurance company under the accountable care model.
The article was published in NATA News
Chris Shaddock has accomplished many thing to advance athletic training at his high school. He is a great resource for improving your position in Athletic Training
Dr. Josh Yellen helps us to think bigger about athletic training and to really question the status qua.
In summary:
Clearly define your goal
Gather information to support your objective
Keep gathering info and speaking with different people
Learn what is important at each level of administration
Prepare to fail many times (sometimes for years)
Find ways to educate everyone about what you do (without complaining / whining)
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Junior High Athletic Trainers – How to Make it Happen – 315
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11 – 13 year old athletes need athletic healthcare. New Caney ISD had been blessed with a supportive admin team but it did not come easily. Kristi Hayes was one of the originators of the middles school athletic trainer deal and offers her insight on making it happen.
Catherine Windsor and Leslie Adamik both currently work in the middle school setting and share what they feel to be the ideal working environment for them. They also share thing they would like to change and some of the best parts of the job as a middle school AT.
Our interview with School Board member Fred Roberts shared a lot of the same points as Scott Galloway:
Begin collecting data, begin educating and make yourself available and known to everyone. Parents on your side helps persuade school boards members as well as you educating them on the value of an athletic trainer. Seek to inform rather than convince so that they can make the decision on their own.
Ethnic Diversity in Athletic Training – 314
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Natalie Trotter at the University of Arkansas and Meghan McKay at Baylor College of Medicine are leading the the EDAC for SWATA.
Shawn Ready joins the show to help co-host
We set a working definition of Ethnic Diversity and then get to why we need to look at Ethnic Diversity in Athletic Training.
Ever had to treat someone who spoke a different language?
I really like Duolingo
Ever had an athlete put gasoline on a cut?
Ever had a parent not accept your diagnosis because you were a female?
Sent an athlete for medical clearance to get a note from Mexico?
We as athletic trainers must understand the population we are working with and from there create plans build relationships, bridge gaps and improve medicine.
Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine
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Listener Spotlight #19 features Tiffany Kizziah
Administrative Support for Athletic Training – 313
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Fred Roberts is a long time school board member in Pasadena ISD.
His message is simple: “Educate us on what you do. I don't know what you do because you haven't told me” He also says “Don't seek to sway or change my mind but to educate”
If they have no idea who we are or what we do it is our fault for not educating them or inviting them in to our lives.
Jesse Lopez at Dobie helped Fred Roberts get over an injury and opened up a line of communication. Building relationships is as simple as giving away gear or shaking a hand and introducing yourself. take each opportunity to build relationships.
Contact Fred Roberts
Contact Jesse Lopez
Whats Your Agenda in District 6 – 312
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Do you know everything that is going on in you athletic training program?
How about your local AT program? State Organization? District or national AT programs? Neither do I, so we check in with some of the various committees in District 6 to see what they are up to and what's on their agenda.
Guests:
Dr. Jordan Utley – Post Professional Education Committee
Mike Carroll – Hall of Fame Committee
Stephanie Keiningham – Registration Committee Chair
Catherine Windsor -Registration Committee Chair
Alan Reid – Professional Education Committee
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Demonstrating Decreased Liability with Scott Galloway – 311
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I want to convince my school board that intermediate / middle school athletes need full time athletic training services. Injury evaluation, rehab plans, concussion management, proper handling of physical forms, injury prevention through proper weight training. These are most of the points I have, but one of the topics that matters most to the district is cost and liability.
I have heard Dave Ramsey say that the person with the most knowledge and patience will usually win the negotiations. This is our source of knowledge, and we basically have until I retire so patience may not be a factor either.
Scott Galloway leads the DeSoto Sports Medicine team where they currently have 7 staff athletic trainers. You can read his bio and see all the things he has accomplished in Athletic Training, but basically he is a politician in Athletic Training form.
DeSoto ISD NATA News Great article from Scott about improving your position
Dr. Josh Yellen, program Director at the University of Houston Masters of Athletic Training program and is also a member of the NATA Professional Responsibility Committee.
Do you desire to improve the level of care provided to your athletes by increase the number of qualified hands to treat injuries? Listen to the show and let me know what you have done that works.
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How You can win with Personal Finance – 310
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Jared Plummer has paid off $50,000 in debt in about 3 years by making choices that were different the what he was used to.
I, Jeremy Jackson, paid off $68,000 in debt in 22 months, has 6 months of expenses less than 10 years left on the mortgage and thriving with a single Athletic Trainer's income family of 5. We are no longer living paycheck to paycheck, we just paid $6,600 to have our air conditioner replaced and didn't miss out on anything because we had saved up for home repairs and emergencies.
Shawn Ready is just looking into winning with his money. Jared and I are happy to walk along side him and encourage all athletic trainers to be intentional and have a plan rather than wonder where your money went.
Top Resource: Take the FPU class
Jeremy's Budgeting template (save a blank version and then one with the current year on it, so that in January you will have another copy to start over) or use EveryDollar from Dave Ramsey
Contact Jared Plummer
Shawn Ready – drop him an email and encourage him to keep hammering out the debt and gain financial peace.
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