2016 March (Volume XXVI, No. 2)

At Washington State University, Lindsay Brown meets bi-weekly with a sport nutrition manager, two executive chefs, and a general manager to review menus, make adjustments based on the availability of ingredients, and designate their offerings.

There are goals for the Purdue University Student-Athlete Community Garden.

Through Purdue’s Student-Athlete Community Garden, athletes learn how to plant specific seeds, how far apart to space them, when to pick certain vegetables, and how to keep their produce fresh.

The University of Illinois was the first Big 10 school to have dining halls, which saves more than 110,000 gallons of water annually.

For Northwestern University’s , participants recover unused food from the cafeterias and re-purpose it to prepare meals for needy members of the community.

According to the author, one reason why traditional rest protocols might have a negative effect on concussion recovery is that athletes who are instructed to rest have a lot of down time to think about how they are feeling, resulting in an awareness of symptoms and overall fatigue.

The staff from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Sports Medicine Concussion Program has identified unique concussion profiles based on which parts of the brain are affected.

For athletes who have a vestibular concussion profile, therapy sessions with a trained neuro-vestibular therapist typically entail head and eye movement exercises to work on visual motion and integration of space and motion.

When athletes experience exacerbated concussion symptoms following physical activity, UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program clinicians encourage them to push through symptoms until they reach a out of 10 in intensity, at which point the athletes are given a break and reassessed.

According to the authors, is the ability to learn, process, and apply information quickly.

The authors say individuals with high are flexible and adaptable, able to adjust to unanticipated variables and discard a failed strategy when necessary.

Research has shown that traits make up athletic intelligence.

Having access to how players , , and information allows athletic personnel to make more informed decisions about how to structure training and competitions.

According to the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education, the purpose of residencies is “to provide advanced preparation of athletic training practitioners through a planned program of and education in specialized content areas.”

The author says the foundation of the Integrated Clinical Sports Medicine Residency (ICSMR) is the .

The author says residencies differ from traditional graduate programs because they tend to include classroom time and autonomous clinical experience.

All athletic trainers can incorporate certain elements of a residency curriculum by actively on a daily basis and pulling out the important nuggets from every situation.

The author instills a - mindset in his players by demanding intensity, discipline, and attention to detail in everything they do.

To reach each of the team’s range of motion goals, they work on and in the thoracic spine, lats, shoulders, and hips.

From September to November, the team uses reps and a lower intensity in the weight room, which prepares the players for the increased loads and volumes of later phases.

In Phase Two, the team switches from a hip strengthening circuit to a hip circuit, which emphasizes the dissociation of the upper and lower body and trains stability in the trunk.