American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
AMSSM Sports Medicine Conference in Haiti Advances Athletic Care by Teaching the Teacher
As a part of the AMSSM and the AMSSM Foundation’s humanitarian efforts, 7 society members traveled to Haiti this summer to provide sports medicine education to physicians, medical students, coaches, and first responders.
In partnership with the Haitian Sports Medicine Society, the AMSSM hosted its first Sports Medicine/Sports Trauma and Event Medicine Conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 29–July 3, 2013. The conference was designed as a “teach the teacher” course, with the goal of advancing the education of professionals in Haiti who care for active people, from the professional athlete to the weekend warrior. The conference was divided into 4 segments: demonstrations of musculoskeletal ultrasound-guided and surgical procedures, an “introduction to sports medicine” course, lectures, and clinical time. Led by Dr Thomas Trojian, chair of the AMSSM’s International and Inter-Organizational Relations Committee, the project was part of an initiative to reach out to sports medicine societies in underserved areas of the world to promote healthy lifestyles and heal people from athletic injuries.
AMSSM Expands Fellows Conference in 2013
Thanks to additional grant support, 2013 was the first year of the expanded AMSSM Fellows Research and Leadership Conference, July 26–28, St Paul, Minnesota. AMSSM member Suzanne Hecht, MD, served as program chair of this conference, which integrated leadership programming into the research-oriented curriculum. Additionally, the conference included a sports trauma and event medicine preconference designed to equip fellows to cover events and be prepared for emergencies on the sideline and during game coverage.
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Apps Now Available for Sports Health, AJSM, and OJSM
New iPad apps for the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Sports Health, and the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine are now available! Online publication has vastly leveraged the versatility, reach, and demand for journal content, and the apps provide an amazingly convenient and rich way to store and read multiple issues on a single device. The apps combine the pleasure of reading content from the page with the benefits of a digital format. They are free to AOSSM members and journal subscribers. If you haven’t tried them out, go to the Apple Store and search for AJSM, Sports Health, or OJSM—download today!
Give Your Patients the Best Sports Medicine Tips—Send Them In Motion
AOSSM’s quarterly electronic newsletter In Motion is now available to be personalized with your practice name and logo. For just $300, you will receive 4 personalized issues (spring, summer, fall, winter) and the high- and low-resolution PDFs to send to a patient’s inbox, to put on your website, or to print out and place in your waiting room. For more information, contact Lisa Weisenberger, director of communications, at lisa@aossm.org.
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Upcoming Meetings
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Advanced Team Physician Course
December 5-8, 2013
Las Vegas, NV
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AOSSM Specialty Day
March 15, 2014
New Orleans, LA
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Surgery for the Athlete’s Knee
April 26-27, 2014
Orthopaedic Learning Center, Rosemont, IL
National Athletic Trainers’ Association
NATA inducted 5 individuals into its prestigious Hall of Fame at the association’s 64th Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposia, June 26, Las Vegas, Nevada. Honorees were recognized for their work in advancing the athletic training profession, including scholarly research, clinical advancements, and strong leadership. Since inducting its first class in 1962, the Hall of Fame now has 282 members. The 2013 inductees include Ron Courson, ATC, PT, NREMT-I, CSCS, senior associate athletic director for sports medicine at the University of Georgia; R. T. Floyd, EdD, ATC, CSCS, head athletic trainer and professor and director of athletic training and sports medicine at the University of West Alabama; Robert Kersey, PhD, ATC, CSCS, professor of kinesiology and director of the athletic training education program at California State University at Fullerton; Ralph Reiff, MEd, ATC, LAT, executive director of St Vincent Sports Performance, Indianapolis, Indiana; and Charles Thompson, MS, ATC, head athletic trainer at Princeton University.
Also at NATA’s annual meeting, leading health care professionals released interassociation task force recommendations, titled “Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best Practices Recommendations” (http://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/preventing-sudden-death.pdf). The consensus statement is believed to be the first scientific/medical document that focuses on the serious conditions that can affect the high school athlete. The task force was spearheaded by NATA in collaboration with the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Supporting organizations include the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association and the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. In addition, the following task force member organizations have endorsed the new statement: American College of Sports Medicine, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine, Gatorade Sports Science Institute, Korey Stringer Institute, Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, National Council on Strength and Fitness, and National Federation of State High School Associations.
Sports Physical Therapy Section
Members Receive Awards at PT 2013
The following SPTS members were selected by the American Physical Therapy Association’s Board of Directors and received the following awards from APTA’s 2013 Honors and Awards Program.
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Lucy Blair Service Award
Joe Black, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC
Tara Jo Manal, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS
Henry O. and Florence P. Kendall Practice Award
Steven A. Hoffman, PT, ATC, SCS
Mary McMillan Scholarship Award, Physical Therapist Assistant Education Program
Debora A. Lasure, SPTA
Congratulations to all award winners!
International Symposia Features SPTS President
SPTS president Tim Tyler, PT, MS, ATC, was a featured speaker at 2 symposia in South Africa, sponsored by the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy (IFSPT).
Tyler—clinical research associate and educational coordinator at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine & Athletic Trauma, Lennox Hill Hospital, New York, New York—spoke on current concepts in shoulder and elbow rehabilitation in Pretoria and Cape Town on August 30 and September 2. The Pretoria symposium was held in conjunction with the Sports Physiotherapy South Africa Conference, August 31–September 1. The Cape Town symposium was held along with the IFSPT Biennial Meeting, September 2. In addition, former SPTS treasurer, long-time SPTS member, and current IFSPT treasurer Gordon Eiland, PT, MA, SCS, spoke on current concepts in patellofemoral pain rehabilitation at both symposia.
For more information about Tyler, Eiland, and the symposia, go to http://www.ifspt.org.
Save the Date! February 3, 2014: Third Annual Charity Golf Tournament
SPTS is pleased to announce that it will once again sponsor a charity golf tournament at the Combined Sections Meeting!
As in the past, this tournament will benefit the American Lake Veterans Golf Course and the Foundation for Physical Therapy. This year, the event will be held at the beautiful TPC Summerlin course. TPC Summerlin’s championship golf course in Las Vegas incorporates traditional golf design with the natural desert terrain of the region. This award-winning Bobby Weed–designed championship golf course is located in the master-planned community of Summerlin in Las Vegas and plays home to the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. It was also the site of Tiger Woods’s first professional victory, in 1996. TPC Summerlin’s par-72, 7243-yd layout was honored by Golf Digest as “One of America’s Best Golf Courses” and named by Nevada Business Magazine as the “No. 1 private golf course in Nevada” in 2006.
Watch for more information about the tournament soon. For now, save the date for a great day of golf at a world-class course, and get your foursome together!
Sports Medicine Physical Therapy Leader George J. Davies Inducted Into Hall of Fame
George J. Davies, DPT, ATC, CSCS, PES, FAPTA, was inducted into the AOSSM’s Hall of Fame at its annual meeting in Chicago, July 12. AOSSM hall of famers are individuals in the sports medicine community who have contributed immensely and set themselves apart from others in the field.
Dr Davies began his sports medicine career almost 50 years ago when he started as a student, assistant, and then head athletic trainer. He has been involved in the clinical practice of sports physical therapy and athletic training since 1965. He still maintains an active clinical practice at Coastal Therapy, Savannah, Georgia, and Gundersen Lutheran Sports Medicine, La Crosse, Wisconsin. He has been actively involved in sports coverage as an athletic trainer and sports physical therapist at a variety of sporting events. Dr Davies is an internationally known speaker and, for the past 38 years, has been involved in teaching in physical therapy programs. He is presently a professor of physical therapy at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia.