Sixteen-year-old Chad Stover died playing a game after suffering a traumatic brain injury. Is the game worth it? It was Halloween night, and the Tipton Cardinals needed a tackle. With the team trailing Sacred Heart 27-18 in the opening round of the Missouri high school playoffs, a stop here–on first down and 10 with less than seven minutes to play–would help keep its fading season alive. As the running back…
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill that will limit football practices for middle-school and high school students, a movement that is gaining steam across the country as awareness of the dangers of repeated hits to the head increases. The California law prohibits teams from holding full-contact practices during the off-season and limits them to no more than two 90-minute, full-contact practices a week during preseason and…
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association, in collaboration with the Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Society, will support a national initiative to place athletic trainers (ATs) in underserved high schools in NFL markets during the 2014 football season. The National Football League Foundation and NFL teams will provide $1 million, with the NATA adding another $125,000, to improve the health and welfare of those student athletes. The announcement was made during the…
Nearly 30 million U.S. children and youth participate in organized sports, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which also reports that high school athletes account for an estimated 2 million injuries, 500,000 doctor visits, and 30,000 hospitalizations each year. All contact sports—including basketball, baseball, hockey, volleyball, even cheerleading—can cause permanent catastrophic brain and spinal injuries, or lead to death. Overuse injuries—those caused by repeated micro-traumas to the tendons,…
The Hawaii Athletic Trainers’ Association hosted their annual Student Athletic Training Workshop on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 at Farrington High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. About 40 high school students from 16 different schools on islands of Oahu and Big Island participated. This year’s list of events included CPR training, the annual dodge ball tournament, medical terminology mad libs, Zumba warm up, guest speaker Andrew Takata, ATC who…
On May 14, 2014 HATA President, Louise Inafuku, received a Certificate of Commendation from the Honolulu Fire Department for successfully performing CPR and utilizing an AED on a person experiencing cardiac arrest. Photo: Dr. Joseph Young (HFD Commission Member), Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Louise Inafuku, Gary Miyama, and Fire Chief Manuel P. Neves. Courtesy of the Hawaii Athletic Trainer’s Association
Mt.San Antonio College Athletic Trainer Andy Paulin, invited his former student, Daniela Medina, to the athletic training room to visit with current athletic training students. Daniela is currently an athletic training student at Cal Baptist University in Riverside, California. But besides her participation in her ATEP, she serves in the Army reserves which she has been doing since she graduated high school. Daniela spent the morning conversing with athletic training…
She had seen him play many times, shaking defenders before a goal on video. But never before had she met the legendary Pelé face to face. Alyssa Alpert was sitting in a training facility in Dubai with New York Cosmos players before a preseason-training match last month. Pelé, who played for the Cosmos from 1975-77, wished the team luck. “He reminded them what they’re playing for and who they’re playing…
Tori Bellucci steadied her balance, dizzied by climbing a flight of stairs at Huntingtown High in 2012. She couldn’t remember the next class on her schedule — one she’d had for two months — so she ducked into the bathroom to take a look at her schedule. Math. Of course In the days after she suffered her third concussion on the soccer field in the fall of 2012, doubts, fears…
The Young Professionals Committee organized two field trips during the FWATA Annual meeting in Las Vegas. The first was a trip to meet the athletic training staff of the “Love” Cirque Du Soleil show and get behind the scenes tour of their facility. The second event was to Xtreme Couture MMA, which is a gym that MMA fighter Randy Couture operates. Attendees also got a tour of the facility and…
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