Washington Sports Medicine’s free Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation
Education Series is designed to help people in the community learn more
about the prevention and treatment of injuries while exercising or participating
in sports. The series should be of special interest to athletes, parents
of students participating in school sports, coaches, athletic trainers
and “weekend warriors.”
The series of programs is offered on the first Wednesday of every other
month, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in the Conrad E. Anderson, MD, Auditorium
in the Washington West Building at 2500 Mowry Ave. in Fremont.
The program for Wednesday, April 6, will be “Prevention and Treatment
of Youth Sports Injuries,” featuring Medical Director of Washington
Sports Medicine Russell Nord, MD, and Sports Medicine Physical Therapist
Kory Langwell, DPT. A certified athletic trainer also will be present
to demonstrate proper warm-up techniques and body mechanics.
“Our primary focus in the program will be injury prevention,”
says Langwell. “We will talk about the science of sports injuries
in young athletes and discuss training techniques that can help with injury
prevention. There also will be time for a question-and-answer session
at the end of the program.”
Subsequent programs later in 2016 will include:
- Think Running Is a Pain? It Doesn’t Have To Be”
- “Big Changes in Concussion Care: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt
You”
- “Nutrition and Athletic Performance”
- Why Does My Shoulder Hurt: Shoulder Pain in the Youth Athlete to the Weekend
Warrior and Beyond”
For more information or to register for an upcoming program, call (800)
963-7070 or visit www.whhs.com. If you need help finding a physician who
specializes in the prevention and treatment of exercise or sports injuries,
visit www.whhs.com and click on the link for “Find Your Physician.”