Please join us in celebrating National Athletic Training Month by taking this opportunity to learn more about the profession.

What does a certified athletic trainer do?

Certified athletic trainers are medical experts in preventing, recognizing, managing and rehabilitating injuries that result from physical activity. Athletic trainers can help you avoid unnecessary medical treatment and disruption of normal daily life. If you’re injured, they can get you on the mend and keep you on the move.

Ice Hockey requires a unique combination of speed, power, and teamwork. Due to the large volume of contact, many injuries can occur. Some of them are avoidable.

Wrestling is one of the world’s oldest sports and is offered at various levels of competition. Athletes are paired against each other according to their weight class. This decreases the risk for injury. The most common injuries that occur are to the knee, shoulder, skin, and head.

Serious health problems can result from prolonged exposure to the cold. The most common cold-related problems are hypothermia and frostbite.

“True” Cramps

• Involve part or all of a single muscle or group of muscles.
• Usually caused by hyper excitability of the nerves that stimulate muscles.
• Most common types of muscle cramps.
• Associated with the vigorous use of muscles and muscle fatigue

New York State has recently passed new legislation regarding the management of concussions in the school setting. It is called the Concussion management and Awareness Act and it went into effect on July 1, 2012.

An athlete can sustain a quadriceps or hamstrings strain during any activity which involves rapid acceleration or deceleration, such as baseball, softball, lacrosse and track. Often, these injuries are caused because the athlete doesn’t warm up properly, and attempts to sprint while the muscles are tight. Especially in our region, where it is often cold during practices and games, it is very important to properly warm up and stretch the muscles.

What is “swimmer's shoulder”? The term describes shoulder pain in the competitive swimmer. It is an inflammatory condition caused by the impingement (rubbing or squeezing) of soft tissue against the coracoacromial arch.