– a Podcast to Promote and Improve YOUR practice of Athletic Training
Shawn Ready did rodeo for years. His list of injuries is phenomenal. He also did some dumb things along the way. Daniele Petty was hit by a car and nearly lost her foot but return to a somewhat active lifestyle and became an Athletic Trainer John Ciecko tried to break his neck playing college football, …
One would think a geneticist would be pretty dry, but Dr. Jim Hudziak is quite funny and helps make genetics relating to sports concussions a lot easier to understand. Genetics are a much bigger factor when you are younger than when you are an adult in determining who you are and what you do. Contact …
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Chris Dean, President of Alaska Athletic Trainer Association, shares experiences of working in Alaska as an Athletic Trainer. We discuss: Best and worst parts of working in Alaska; Unique sports or treatment remedies; Ways they are improving and promoting Athletic Training in Alaska; Insider tips on dealing with cold weather; Polar Bears at Football Practice …
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Soccer season often produces as many injured athletes as football season. To gear up we are speaking with some of the best Athletic Trainers in soccer. Dawn Stuckey – Rice Owls Theron Enns – Houston Dynamo Bobby Wisenberger – Charleston Battery Topics: What are preventable injuries in soccer and how can we prevent them? Best …
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Sonia Gysland has broken the ranks of professional football; Dawn Stuckey is a head Athletic Trainer at Rice University; Christina Cope is an Athletic Trainer at Klein High School. All three have teamed up to discuss some of the struggles for female Athletic Trainers. Thanks for the special contributions from @FemaleATProbs Top 10 reasons it is so …
Dr. Jacob Resch is doing some pioneering research focusing on balance issues and concussions. One of their test sites is DeSoto High School where the Sports Medicine team, lead by David Young, is leading the way in the secondary setting with concussion research studies and protocol management. Show notes for Episode 126 Masters of Athletic …
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External Bracing with Chris Dean and Maurice Hawkins – 115 Maurice Hawkins from Gazelle Health Care lends us some expert opinion on the topic of external bracing focusing specifically on the Ankle Roll Guard invented by Chris Dean. The Ankle Roll Guard fits outside the shoe and acts as a block for inversion ankle sprains. …
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SWATA President Mitzi Laughlin joins us to celebrate National Athletic Training Month. She tells her story of being the first female Student Athletic Trainer to work football at the University of Texas, being chased by a tank and SWAT team and her trips on NASA’s Vomit Comet. Then Bubba Wilson joins us and we kinda …