Steven Horwitz (Chiropractor and Strength & Conditioning Trainer): Injury Care & Prevention Improves Performance

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In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam has asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear from Dr. Steve Horwitz, a chiropractic sports physician and sports performance coach and Director of the Capital Sports Injury Center in Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland.

Steven M. Horwitz, DC, CCSP, CSCS, CKTP, HKC

A chiropractor and certified strength and conditioning trainer explains how treating sports injuries cannot only prevent future injuries but improve athletic performance.

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Paul Bearmon (Internal Medicine): Fighting For Balance and Fairness in Youth Sports

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 15:19. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam has asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear from Paul Bearmon, a physician in Minnesota and founder of KEAP (Keep 'Em All Playing).

Paul H. Bearmon, MD

A physician tells of how he counsels parents of youth athletes to keep sports in perspective and fights to make youth sports that serves the interests of all children, not just the select few.

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Susan Yeargin (Athletic Trainer): Preventing Heat Illness Is Her Passion

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 13:22. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear once again from Susan Yeargin, a certified athletic trainer, MomsTeam's hydration expert, Assistant Professor in the Physical Education and Athletic Training Department at the University of South Carolina, and new mom!

By Susan Yeargin, PhD, ATC

An athletic trainer decides to devote her professional career to studying ways to improve child and adolescent hydration and the prevention and treatment of heat illness after learning of the death of a college football player from heat stroke.

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Vincent Burke (Physical Therapist): Recognized Signs Of Athlete's Life-Threatening Heart Condition

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Sat, 04/07/2012 - 12:29. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog in 2012 answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear again from Vincent Burke, a physical therapist, and the owner and operator of Infinity Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine and the Infinity Fitness & Sports Institute in Rochelle Park, New Jersey.

By Vincent M. Burke, PT, DPT, MPT, BS, NASM-CPT

Sometimes a physical therapist does more than just help an athlete recover from injury. Sometimes they can actually help save an athlete's life.

Barbara Bleiweis

Youth Sports and Life Lessons for Parents: The Art of Active Listening

Submitted by Barbara Bleiweis on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 20:45. | comments

For millions of households, March Madness has a double meaning. On the one hand, it means from March 15 to early April, college basketball season is winding down with two weeks of frenzied fun culminating in the joy of triumph or painful disappoinment in defeat. The second meaning, at least for families such as mine, is that these same two weeks mark the final stages for a contemporaneous, possibly more emotional event: college acceptance, rejection or placement on the wait-listed limbo-land.

Listening to a daughter's frustration about the college admission process, reminds a Virginia mom once again of the power of silent support and active listening learned as a sports parent.

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Marci Yost (Certified Athletic Trainer): Advocate For Athletes

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 19:05. | comments

Two years ago, in recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we reprise a blog submitted by Marci Yost, Sports Medicine Coordinator at Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

By Marci Yost, M.A., ATC/L

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, we are highlighting some of our favorite blogs from 2012, with a special emphasis on the important role of certified athletic trainers. Sometimes, says Marci Yost, an athletic trainer has to be an advocate for the athlete, going to battle with parents and coaches who may be more concerned about winning than player safety.

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Kelly Rider (Athletic Trainer): Enjoys Following Athlete From Injury To Return To Play

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 20:13. | comments

In 2012, in recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year. The blog project was a huge success. This April we are reprising some of the blogs from two years ago and asking some of our new Twitter friends to join the party.

One of those we heard from two years ago was Kelly Rider, M.Ed., ATC, LAT, CSCS, an athetic trainer at the Dexter-Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts and head coach of a girl's ice hockey team at a Boston area high school.

By Kelly Rider, M.Ed., ATC, LAT, CSCS

An athletic trainer and high school hockey coach says she realized she wanted to be an athletic trainer after an errant puck hit her glove during a hockey practice freshman year in high school.

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Andrew M. Blecher, M.D (Primary Care Sports Medicine): Treating The Entire Athlete

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 19:03. | comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog in 2012 answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear again from Dr Andrew Blecher, a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician in the Los Angeles area, and a frequent contributor to MomsTEAM.

By Andrew M. Blecher, MD

A primary care sports medicine specialist talks about how use of an experimental new therapy helped him get the starting center on a college football team back on the field sooner than expected after suffering a serious knee ligament sprain.

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Katherine Burns, MD (Orthopedic Surgeon): Entered Sports Medicine To Improve Quality of Athletes' Lives

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 17:44. | comments

Two years ago, in recognition of April as Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, in celebration of Youth Sports Safety Month 2014, we reprise the blog post from Dr. Katherine Burns, an orthopedic surgeon in St. Louis, Missouri, who specializes in sports medicine.

By Dr. Katherine Burns, MD

An orthopedic surgeon from St. Louis describes how she chose sports medicine in order to have an impact on the quality of peoples' lives. Little did she realize that she would made a difference in her hockey-playing son's life after he suffered a concussion.

Brooke de Lench

National Youth Sports Safety Month: We've Come A Long Way

Submitted by Brooke de Lench on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 16:17. | comments

When the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation was formed in 1989, its mission was to provide information on the prevention of youth sports injuries. The non-profit 501(c)(3) foundation was founded in Massachusetts by Rita Glassman after her young daughter Michelle suffered a severe back injury that ended her tennis career. Rita was the first to designate April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, which MomsTeam has been celebrating every year since 2001.

In recognition of the efforts so many make to making youth sports safer, MomsTeam invited experts in the sports medicine field to contribute to a month-long special blog project called simply, April Is National Youth Sports Safety Month, which we are running again for a new generation of sports parents.