Current Topics in Sports Medicine:
- The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine is proud to be a sponsor of the
Lawrence Memorial Hospital Triathlon, Sunday June 27th. The event will
culminate a weekend of informational clinics and expos. The race will
be held Sunday morning at Lone Star Lake in Lawrence. For more
information go to www.lawrencetriathlon.com.
KCAM will be providing a certified athletic trainer at the event.
- The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine is pleased to announce that it
will be providing athletic training services to Eudora high School and Seabury Academy. The services are to be provided beginning immediately. The services provide athletic trainers to the school for the purpose of the evaluation and management of athletic injuries sustained by the school's student-athletes.
- The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine has concluded it's third year of
the fall Saturday morning sports injury clinic. One Hundred and Forty
athletes were seen and provided valuable immediate evaluation and
treatment planning as a result. We would like to thank everyone
including parents and coaches for spreading the word, but mostly our
great staff in the front office, Sharon Moews, Kendee Schroder, and
Mickey Prager for the smoothest year yet. Also to Travis Haas our x-ray
technician for great work again!
- August 17th is the first day of fall sports practice for Kansas schools.
Lately we have been fortunate with cool and wet weather. Unfortuneatly,
this is not usually the case in mid-August. Athletes should be
preparing now by gradually exercising and conditioning gradually when
warm weather avails itself. Starting from scratch with 30 minutes in
warm weather and increasing daily by 10 minutes should help with those
first days of hot practice. Athletes should also begin to work on
hydrating themselves and modifying their diet by avoiding foods that
will prevent the absorption of water by the cells and organs that
require it.
Coaches should also begin preparing themselves by being well versed in heat injury care and heat emergency measures.
- As the "Official Medical Partner of the Sunflower State Games", The
Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine will be providing certified athletic
trainers during the Games. The trainers while coordinating emergency
medicial care with the Douglass County EMS, will be available to
athletes, coaches, and parents to provide assessment, consultation, and
first aid for sports injuries. The trainers will also be available for
taping. Athletes needing taping will need to furnish their own taping
supplies.
The trainers will be based in Robinson gym, adjacent to the basketball courts throughout the Games. Trainers will also be stationed full time through the following events: rugby and wrestling. Otherwise trainers will be traveling from site to site, available for consultation. Also, State Games sit coordinators will be able to page a trainer to a site upon request of an athlete, coach or parent.
Trainers working the games are: Jeremy Robbins ATC, Gary Stevanus ATC, Darlene Lefert ATC, Lance Mullen ATC, Greg Evans ATC, Kelly Carlson AT, Karen Polasceck AT, Chad Bowles ATC, Matt Humpert ATC, Jennifer Raybern ATC, & Sonalee Patel AT. Trainers will be wearing shirts bearing the KCAM logo. Feel free to call upon them for their assistance.
- The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine is pleased to announce the
addition of Dr. Neal D. Lintecum to the physician staff of Orthopaedic
Surgery Associates P.A.
Dr. Lintecum is an orthopedic surgeon with his specialty Fellowship in in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery. He completed his Fellowship through the University of California at San Francisco and Lindenhofspital/Inselspital, Bern Switzerland.
Dr. Lintecum received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, his medical degree from The University of Kansas, and his surgical residency at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Lintecum is now available for appointments and is in clinc on Monday and Friday afternoons and Thursday mornings.
We are very excited and pleased to have Dr. Lintecum as a vital member of our program!
- The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons believes that the use of
breakaway bases at all levels of baseball & softball could dramatically
reduce injuries to athletes and therefore reduce associated medical
costs.
Many baseball and softball injuries occur when sliding into a base. A study conducted at the University of Michigan found that using breakaway bases in recreational softball reduced sliding injuries by 98% and associated medical costs by 99%. The federal government has recommended the use of breakaway bases on playing fields at military installations and federal prisons.
Although the base can be dislodged by a sliding runner, the breakawy base is stable and will not detach during normal base running.
- The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine is pleased to announce that they
will now be providing athletic trainers at tournament events held at
Sport2Sport in Lawrence.
The trainers will be available to assess athletic injuries and provide emergency care. They will also be available to perform preventative taping and wrappping. It is up to the athletes to provide their own supplies.
- ANNOUNCING!!!!!!!
The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine now brings together the physicans and athletic trainers of Orthopaedic Surgery Associates and the rehabilitation professional of TherapyWorks P.A to bring you Lawrence's community sports medicine and rehabilitation team.
TherapyWorks is a Lawrence owned private practice with physical and occupational therapists providing sports injury rehabilitation, sports performance screening and programs, spinal rehabilitation, hand rehabilitation, and pediatric physical and occuaptional therapy!
TherapyWorks is also the area's only licensed Body Balance Performance Center for Golfers. See how we can help you prepare you most valuable piece of golf equipment, YOU! Call 749-1300 for a free screening for you, a friend, or a spouse!
Also, The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine will again be the Official Medical Partner for the 1999 Sunflower State Games the weekends of July 16-18 & July 23-25 in Lawrence. KCAM will be providing athletic trainers at various event venues as well as their primary site at Robinson gymnasium, second floor, adjacent to the basketball courts.
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Training Room Tips:
PRE-WRAP CHO-PAT
from Gary Stevanus ATC-R, Baldwin High School & Eudora High School
As a quick, cheap, and effective way to treat patellar tendonitis, all you need is a little pre-wrap. Pre-wrap is the underling material used when taping areas such as ankles. Apply the pre-wrap from about 3-4" above your knee down to just below your knee. Roll it down until you have a little pre-wrap band. Then, roll it up so it lies just below the kneecap and just above the tibial tubercle, crossing the patellar tendon.
LOCAL PHYSICIANS SPEAK AT BIG 12 PHYSICIAN CONFERENCE
Two Lawrence physicians from The Kansas Center for Athletic Medicine, Kenneth Wertzberger MD and Jeffrey Randall MD are scheduled to speak this weekend at the Third Annual Big 12 Conference Team Physician Meeting in San Diego, California.
Dr. Wertzberger and Dr. Randall practice at Lawrence Orthopaedic Surgery Associates, PA in Lawrence and are on staff at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Both physicians are Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeons, specializing in sportsmedicine.
Dr. Wertzberger will speak on arthroscopic closure of the rotator cuff
interval for shoulder instabilities. Dr. Randall will present results
from an ongoing study he is involved with at the University of Kansas
Department of Health, Sport, and Exercise focusing on the effects of
Creatine Supplementation on Exertional Compartment Syndrome of the lower
leg.