The 22nd Annual
Practical Applications in Sports Medicine
Educational Conference and Workshop

(20 CEUs)

June 1-3, 2012
Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel

Problems are only opportunities for solutions. Let This Conference Change Your Life and How You Practice.

This is the best program of its kind, with a dynamic range of exciting topics and speakers that can seldom be found in one place. If you register before May 7th and stay at the Renaissance, you will be eligible to win a “Free” spa treatment at the hotel.

Practical Application in Sports Medicine will stretch your mind and enhance your skill set. This year we will be attacking injuries from all direction, from some things you have heard about and some that are not even on the market yet.  You will be able to choose what will and will not work for your occupational environment. As always we will have a core content of information you will be able to leave and put right to use. We are going to teach about the controversial subjects like concussions and heat. The concussion rules have been out for a couple years now and the questions and answers this course will provide are:  have these rules made a difference and then how do you put in a concussion program for your athletes, coaches, administrators, and parents that they will buy into? R. Dawn Comstock, PhD one of the leader in concussion research will share her information with us. How will you inform your, parents, administrators, other healthcare providers and finally the public in your area? Chris Marker, DO and Jim Winn, MED, ATC, PTA will walk through how The SPORT Clinic implements a concussion program.

We are bringing one of the leaders in heat complications, Sandra Fowkes-Godek, PhD, ATC  to one of the hottest place in the US to talk establishing practical plans for heat problems from someone that is out there working every day.

You cannot go a day without hearing of a coach or teacher making the news about sexual misconduct, we will have one of the leaders in the field, Jeff Konin, PhD, ATC, PT, FACSM, FNATA  share his expertise about the problems of sexual misconduct, whistle blowing and the hazing problem.

The specific injures we will attach will be the knee and the hip led by orthopaedic surgeons Jerome F. Wall, MD and Brent d’Arc MD. With the use of a cadaver dissection they will make you more comfortable with your evaluations. Then once you understand the knowledge of the diagnostic we are bringing in William Prentice, PhD, ATC, PT, FNATA one of the leaders in sports medicine in to provide the integrated rehabilitation program. This will emphasizes improving function by doing things to increase nervous system efficiency as opposed to always concentrating on only the muscular and articular systems in rehabilitation.

David Ruiz, MS, ATC, Cert. MDT will introduce many of you to the McKenzie Method another tool to add to your toolbox. Ellen Coleman,. RD, MA, MPH will discuss the new guidelines for pre and post event means and the concussion of carbohydrates. Alan Russell, MS, ATC, PES, CES, NASM CPT from NASM will share his keen insight in the integrated approach of the knee and hip while Andy Paulin, BS, ATC will share his many years of expertise on how to set up the sideline to on the field evaluation and decisions.

You can go to Responsible Fundraising at http://www.responsiblefundraising.org/page/471860637 to find out how you can get your way paid for, plus add money to your sports medicine program…

Plus we will also have open cadaver labs with Pat Walsh, BS, ATC and an AHA Healthcare provider class to keep you up to date so register for it.

Other presenters:

Heather Ontiveros, PA-C, ATC – Skin Infections & Urgent Care vs. Emergency Dept. what to send where.

Bruce Cook, ATC – Refractometer as a teaching tool to reduce cramping & improve performance

John Ledford, MA, ATC, CSCS – Case study of a L4-5 synovial cyst in a collegiate female soccer player

Russell Baker, MS, MS, ATC – Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization for the knee and hip – plus a hands on lab

David Ruiz, MS, ATC, Cert. MDT – McKenzie Method for the knee and the hip – plus a hands on lab

Chris Gonzales, MS, ATC – High performance therapeutic Exercises

If you have any question please feel free to e-mail me at jclover@comgri.com this could be our best course ever….

See you there

Jim Clover, MED, ATC, PTA, CES

The conference (click for registration) will be held at the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel. Accommodations have been set aside at a rate of $119.00 per night (plus taxes and fees) when you mention Practical Applications. Click on the Logo to go to the Renaissance Hotel Web Site.

888 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760-322-6000
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