Founder Teri Lee Steele draws from her 20 years of
experience as an athletic trainer, Pilates instructor, dance teacher and choreographer to combine conscious, controlled movements and sheer unadulterated physicality.
My
experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that,
as long
as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not
as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified
athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long
as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and
athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such
as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and
as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.
Professional
Experience: Dodson began his long - time career
as the Head
Athletic Trainer at Midland High School in 1959, where he remained until his retirement over 30 years later.