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Minnesota Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer highlights the role of Head Athletic Trainer Eric Sugarman

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All four teams have benefited enormously from the addition of Alex Bowmer to the club as Head Athletic Trainer.

Before the day's practice could begin, he pulled aside San Francisco's vice president of football operations and former head athletic trainer, Jeff Ferguson, and told him the news.

In addition to team coaches, we are incredibly fortunate to have the talents of Alex Bowmer at our disposal as head athletic trainer this year.

installed inside or on the outside of a player's helmet, embedded in a mouth guard, helmet chin strap, skull cap, head band, or skin patch worn behind the ear, for instance), all are essentially designed to do the same thing: alert coaches, athletic trainers, team doctors, other sideline personnel and / or parents about high - risk single and multiple head impacts in order to improve the rate at which concussions are identified.

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.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Inury: SB 771 (2011) defines concussion, student athlete, and youth recreational sports program, and requires the Departments of Education and Health, county boards of education, Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, Maryland Athletic Trainers Association and the Brain Injury Association of Maryland to develop policies and implement a concussion program to provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, student athletes and parents and guardians of student athletes.

Formed in December 2010 to determine how the Ivy League could take a leadership role in trying to limit concussive hits in football, the committee was co-chaired by Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim and Cornell President David J. Skorton, both medical doctors, and counted among its members various Ivy League head football coaches, administrators, expert consultants, team physicians, and athletic trainers, including Eric Laudano, M.H.S., A.T.C., head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania and MomsTeam expert.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

An athlete's psychological readiness is just as important for a return to sports as their physical recovery from injury, says Eric Laudano, M.H.S., ATC, head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania, especially for long - term injuries.

It seems increasingly obvious that professional football players and the owners for whom they butt heads every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursdays and Saturdays) for money simply can't be counted on to set the right example for the tens of thousands of youth and high school football players who suffer concussions every season, far too many of which, like Morey's, never get reported to the coach, the athletic trainer (if there is one), or even their teammates, friends or parents.

Return to sports after an injury is a stepwise process, says Eric Laudano, M.H.S., ATC, head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania, designed to minimize the chances of re-injury.

While none of the sensors will prevent a concussion; they have value as another set of eyes watching out for head injuries, alerting parents or athletic trainer when a hockey, lacrosse or football player may have been hit hard enough to warrant a sideline assessment.

To provide athletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing headathletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing headtrainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing headAthletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing headTrainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing head trauma.

To promote the prevention of, recognition of, and appropriate responses to TBI, CDC has developed the Heads Up initiative, a program that provides concussion and mild TBI education to specific audiences such as health - care providers, coaches, athletic trainers, school nurses, teachers, counselors, parents, and student athletes.

The league announced it would provide $ 3.5 million in funding for research, an annual conference of team physicians and athletic trainers, and a head trauma task force.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Team physicians, athletic trainers, and other personnel responsible for the medical care of athletes face no more challenging problem than the recognition, evaluation and management of concussions (generally defined as injury to the brain caused by a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the head that results in any immediate, but temporary, alteration in brain functions, such as loss of consciousness, blurred vision, dizziness, amnesia or loss of memory).

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

A resource of best practice guidance for team physicians and athletic trainers to support and promote concussion and repetitive head exposure safety for college athletes.

November 4, 2011 — As the high school football season heads into the playoff stretch and upcoming winter sports season begins The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care profesAthletic Trainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care profesTrainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care profesathletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care profestrainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care professionals.

Employed by Seton Hall University since 1985, I worked as an ATC in the Department of Athletics and Recreational Services as head athletic trainer and assistant director of athletics for medical services.In 2000, I accepted a faculty position with the School of Health and Medical Sciences and served as director of clinical education for the Department of Athletic Tathletic trainer and assistant director of athletics for medical services.In 2000, I accepted a faculty position with the School of Health and Medical Sciences and served as director of clinical education for the Department of Athletic TAthletic Training.

The respondents included 101 head athletic trainers, head football trainers, and other sports - medicine professionals from the highest rung of college football, the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision.

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Among the supporters of Heads Up: The NFL, American Football Coaches Association, National Athletic Trainers Association and Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society.

Colleen Shotwell, head of athletic training at East Stroudsburg University, and Wendy Dietrich, an assistant athletic trainer.

Kim Whelan, Shipley's head athletic trainer, noted that the school's varsity soccer teams didn't have a single concussion last year, which she attributes partially to kids being more aware of the head impacts they were sustaining.

In 1962 he became the Head Athletic Trainer at Lamar State College of Technology (Lamar University).

Jim Maurer, the Cowboys» longtime head athletic trainer, has received the Fain - Cain Memorial Award from the NFL Physicians Society recognizing the league's Outstanding Athletic Trainer of tathletic trainer, has received the Fain - Cain Memorial Award from the NFL Physicians Society recognizing the league's Outstanding Athletic Trainer of thtrainer, has received the Fain - Cain Memorial Award from the NFL Physicians Society recognizing the league's Outstanding Athletic Trainer of tAthletic Trainer of thTrainer of the Year.

Congrats @makennahsdad on being named @NATA1950 Head Athletic Trainer of the Year #ReBuiltByBama #RollTide pic.twitter.com/VqkS1Zny6 3

Dubbed the SidelinER, the 71.5 - square foot tent is the brainchild of Jeff Allen, who is the head athletic trainer at Alabama and a 1989 graduate of North Cobb.

John Moyer President — Elect of PATS and head athletic trainer at Wilson High School in West Lawn, PA commented that «The Hike to Harrisburg was a very well organized and positive experience.

Peduzzi, a Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society (PATS) member, has recently been named as the Eagles» Head Athletic Trainer following the departure of long - time Head, Rick Burkholder.

It wouldn't surprise me,» said Oklahoma head athletic trainer Scott Anderson, president of the College Athletic Trainers» athletic trainer Scott Anderson, president of the College Athletic Trainers» Athletic Trainers» Society.

«If you lead with your head while blocking or tackling, the chances of sustaining a concussion are significantly increased,» states Greg Scullin, MS, LAT, ATC, Assistant Athletic Trainer at Lehigh University.

Robert Blanc, the head athletic trainer for University of Pittsburgh was the first recipient.

Years of clinical experience lead David Polanski, TU's head athletic trainer and co-author of the study, to propose the hypothesis that the number of years of football - playing experience might contribute to anatomical and behavioral changes.

With another season of scholastic football in full swing at school districts across the country, a growing number of physicians and athletic trainers are re-evaluating how they diagnose and treat head injuries suffered during practices and games.

He is the co-author, with Dr. Kelly Starrett, of the forthcoming books Flight Plan and Waterman 2.0, and is also collaborating on Game Changer with University of Michigan football performance director Dr. Fergus Connolly and Bridging the Gap with Sue Falsone, the first female athletic head trainer in Major League sports.

«If you stretch the muscles but don't do anything to the connective tissue, the athlete will go back to his or her limited range of motion,» says Carolyn Peters, M.A., A.T.C., C.S.C.S., Head Athletic Trainer and Strength Specialist at San Diego Christian College and board member National Athletic Trainers» Association.

1,500 — Number of games Canadiens head athletic trainer Graham Rynbend has