Sports Medicine Broadcast Jeremy Jackson

Combat Sports Medicine seems like an extreme environment to practice Athletic Training. Dr. Ethan Kreiswirth created Blackbelt Sports Medicine to provide Athletic Trainer care for combat sports athletes.























You are always posting gnarly pictures and videos on IG. What gives you pause or catches you off guard?







As an Athletic Trainer, I started covering tournaments around 1997.







Personal experience in the sport helps me understand the types of injuries that occur.







Tournaments now are 40 mats over 6 days







Dislocations, unconscious used to give me pause.







Now it is just running a company.







Or working youth tournaments, those are always difficult for me.







Does Blackbelt Sports Medicine have tournaments across the United States?







Yes, we work with the BJJ organizations to help provide medical care for combat sports.







A new AT is going to work in combat sports medicine.  How do you prep them?







Gloves, gauze, skin lube, and nose plugs.







An Athletic Trainer working with Black Belt Sports Medicine could almost get away with just bringing their fanny pack, like the Nexus Deadbug







There is almost no taping done, maybe some finger taping.







You do a good bit of suturing…discuss that as an AT. 







Many of these BJJ athletes are from out of state or another country.







Suturing on the sidelines helps them out tremendously.







I have done about 10 sutures so far.







There is a lot of practice involved with the practice kits.







Not being licensed gives me more freedom to practice the emerging skills.







We take a table behind the scenes and do the standard prep work.  We also instruct them to follow up with their HCP.







The larger tournaments have an overseeing physician onsite as well.







Sign up for a tournament and see if Combat Sports Medicine is for you.















Contact:







Dr. Kreiswirth - https://www.facebook.com/Blackbeltsportsmedicine/







IG: https://www.instagram.com/dr.kreiswirth/







Jeremy - https://www.instagram.com/sportsmedicinebroadcast/







Resources:







Pub med research

Bubba Wilson discusses Crisis Behavior or Crisis Etiquette live from the Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Update. He has been leading D6 in ATsCare since its inception and has learned a lot over the years.















Discussion topics: 









* AT Cares







* Crisis Management







* CCISM Credential







* COVID Impact on AT Cares Program







* NATA Gather Program







* Mitigating Secondary Loss









Did crisis management help you be prepared for being inducted into the SWATA Hall of Fame?







AT Cares drove me there.







CCISM credential:







Certified Critical Incident Stress Management - Level 1 deals with individuals in crisis, the majority of AT Cares population. Level 2 deals with groups in crisis. 







Began Crisis Management training in 2019. 







AT’s managing grief:







Grief comes in at a later time, ATs have to finish the game/event after a critical injury/event.







AT Cares reaches out once notified to ensure assistance is provided where needed







NATA Gather Program Integration:







Young professionals can use NATA’s gather program to find mentors. 







Crisis on campus - what is the best method to find that definite grief to counsel them?







Don’t counsel them. Listen. Refer out. 







Soapbox Warning - What is step 1 in managing the secondary loss of loved ones?







Have affairs in order. Have a will, have life insurance. Have your burial wishes written down. Have the conversation. Have a list of your account usernames and passwords. Know how many death certificates you may need. Legal Zoom is a good resource. Make sure you constantly update your affairs. The primary loss will be exacerbated if we don’t handle our affairs. 







Currently working on a presentation with AT Cares members regarding their experiences with loss and what they’ve learned along the way.







Thanks, Sydney Hayes for creating the Crisis Behavior show notes

Practical Preceptor Tips from Christina Fry at Dawson High School in Pearland, Texas. They do an amazing job with the Sports Medicine staff, their student aides, and as preceptors for the University of Houston MAT program.















Discussion topics: 









* Advancing students in the profession







* Preparing students 







* Outfitting students







* Providing learning opportunities 







* Scheduling







* What to avoid







* Practical Preceptor Tips









How long have you been a preceptor?







7 years. 







Can you share some of the things you have done to help master's students be involved and advance in the profession?







We treat the masters' students as an extension of our staff, we want them to be respected in our ATR just like us.







We have our high school students refer to them as Mr/Ms/Mrs. We interview them to make them feel that they are in a professional setting.







My assistant, Thomas, likes to ask them “What did you learn today?”. We outfit them, invite them to our pregame meals, we make sure that they feel respected. We make sure that every day they learn something new.







You interview them for the position, but they’re already assigned there?







Correct. We ask them to submit a resume, and for a lot of them this is their first job “interview” and ask them interview-like questions and ask them to submit a cover letter.







We then give them critiques so they can start working and build that resume so that when they are done with their program they can apply and be successful for their interviews for their actual job. 







Do you do that just once, or every week, every 3 weeks, etc?







So our level 2’s are with us all year long, we make sure we give them monthly updates. Our level 2 this past year wanted an update every day, every week, so we always were helping her and growing her, anytime there was a hiccup or something she was unsure of, we gave her that reassurance and feedback.







For the level 1’s, it takes a while to get into that comfort zone, but we always try to give them feedback when we notice something, good or bad. 







You talked about outfitting them to make them feel welcome, do we give them the ones that say athletic trainer, or the ones that the students wear, do they keep them; what does that look like for you?







So it varies, level 2 vs level 1. Level 2’s we’ll give them the game day polo for the year, and require them to look professional when they come into the ATR.







Our students will wear Nike shorts and a T-shirt. We ask that our UH students either wear something UH to differentiate them or they wear a polo with either nicer shorts or nicer slacks, with their UH ID badge. And that way it identifies them as an adult and not a student.







More Practical Preceptor Tips: Include them in almost everything! So for GHATS, we made a fun t-shirt for the t-shirt contest, and we had a team-building activity of tie-dying the shirts.







We invited our UH students to join in since they went with us to GHATS, and they were allowed to wear that shirt as a fun GHATS representation.

Neuro 20 looks like a wet suit with electrodes for E-Stim built in. That is partially true, the materials a spandex or Dri-fit type material, and Wayne and Michael share a lot more on the Sports Medicine Broadcast.























Give me the big picture. Background and origin of the idea.







-Founder DJ Schmitt was injured during service and wanted to find a way to get healthy without taking so much medication. 







He used his electrical engineering degree to develop the first Neuro20 suit.







The suit is made up of a compression material(spandex).







Establish firing rates for healthy individuals and be able to choose for the AT/PT to know which one to use.







Where does the name Neuro20 come from?







20 large electrodes placed strategically to engage the maximum amount of motor neurons.







Who is using it right now in sports?







NHL 







Olympic Athletes 







NFL







D1 Athletes







What are the most common applications of neuro20?







Prehab







Rehab







Active recovery







Motor education







Accessibility for the Athletic Trainer?







At the moment it is not accessible to the high school population because of privacy issues.







College-level or professional level







Can you set them up and “walk away?”







Patients can be set up and allowed to complete a workout session on their own.









* One of our pro sports athletes uses it after games while on the plane for recovery.









Can I use Neuro20 with my high school athletes?







It is FDA-cleared for adult patients.  Some youth patients have used it with waivers and clearance from their doctors but that is not the target population.







Contact Us:











Wayne Smith - wsmith@neuro20.com

Sudden Cardiac arrest in sports with Travis Turner at the Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Update. Randy and Sandy Harris from the ATCorner Podcast ask all the hard questions.

SUJI Blood Flow Restriction or BFR is changing the game with its AI-powered app. Dr. Michael MacPherson joins me and Lisette Guerrero to learn more about our new gear.















What is your 10-second sales pitch for Suji BFR?







A portable, affordable, and easy-to-use gold standard, AI-powered BFR technology







The affordability of the device is one reason we chose to add Suji BFR.  Discuss current pricing.







Suji has found the middle ground. We are data-driven for incredible accuracy at an affordable price, never before seen in the BFR space. 







Let's get into the app, it is one of the big differences from the Delphi unit we have.







Our AI-powered app automatically calculates LOP for the clinician and then saves that data to a patient/athlete profile, saving at least 3-5 minutes every BFR session. The AI-powered calibration process is also incredibly robust. 







All patient/athlete data is stored in a HIPAA-compliant cloud that lives in your institution. A Suji institution is your team or clinic where all your Data lives. Only you have access to it as the administrator. With Suji, you only have to calibrate as often as you deem necessary. 







Discuss the continuous monitoring vs the detachable hose.







With Suji Pro and its real-time pressure adjustments, you won’t need to attach the hose to adjust the pressure within the cuff.







With Suji Pro, you’ll be able to adjust the pressure on the pump in real time. Suji BFR Pro - what should we expect? Suji Pro is Lighter, Smaller, and Hoseless.







Our users are passionate about our portability and our customizable in-app recovery sessions so we’ve made advancements in both areas. Our users also expressed the desire for real-time pressure control without attaching hoses and a pump, so you can expect greater control with Suji Pro without breaking the bank.







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