Parents should ask their child's
doctor for the manual Preparticipation Physical Evaluation developed jointly by the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Society for
Sports Medicine, and the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine, which includes specific questions to ask in taking a medical history and instructions on how to conduct a sports - related musculoskeletal examination (see b
Sports Medicine, and the American Osteopathic Academy of
Sports Medicine, which includes specific questions to ask in taking a medical history and instructions on how to conduct a sports - related musculoskeletal examination (see b
Sports Medicine, which includes specific
questions to ask in taking a medical history and instructions on how to conduct a
sports - related musculoskeletal examination (see b
sports - related musculoskeletal examination (see below).
Because the Maddocks
questions can be asked by anyone, they are valuable on
sports sidelines where no health care professional trained in performing a full sideline screening for concussion, such as
doctor or certified athletic trainer, is present, as is often the case in contact and collision
sports involving younger athletes.
In conversation with Ronald Steiner, a
doctor specializing in
sports medicine and one of the few Ashtanga teachers to be authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and Janosh Steinhauer, an AshtangaYoga Innovation teacher and former martial artist, I search for answers to these
questions.