@DavidCutcliffe gave me an opportunity to grow as an athletic trainer. He was one of the first to congratulate me when @chelseaortegapt said yes. I will always be grateful to @DukeFOOTBALL because of him.
Commotio cordis? High school athletic trainers must work miracles, often solo. No airway specialist or emergency med doc on hand. Not even an EMT. I can’t find the ATs name but he/she should be known and lauded!!
Update of this year’s football catastrophic cases. Please share, or offer correction, in reply or via email of cases as known. Sep & Oct are deadly for traumatic injury so potential/inevitability for a continued occurrences.
This is #SportsMedicine.
Thank you to all the amazing clinicians and researcher who shared their stories today - and to all the others who don’t fit in this stage!
#CSM2023
@anya__alvarez I personally hate how insurance companies sometimes can use bmi for coverage. Body. Mass. Index. But your mass could be muscle or people with stocky builds but all insurance companies see is a number 🙄
The goal of NMES is to contract as many muscles fibers to generate as much force as possible without pain or fatigue. Parameters matter. What you need to know: User Guide to Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) https://t.co/MJZiKhSXrw
@ATCanonymous 1) “Infiltration”, probably not the verbiage I would use but 🤷🏽♂️ 2) I’m dual credentialed and worked pro and college sports. Learned from some of the best in both fields. Felt like it helped me immensely.