Casey and Kim share Emerging Technology in Sports Medicine

Emerging Tech in Sports Medicine

Rehab

Xothrm smart pad

Blazepods 

Firefly recovery

Healthy roster, RankOne and EMRs

GameReady

BFR Owens/Delfi, SujiBFR

Virtual Reality

Sidelines

Sway Medical App 

Avive

Perry weather

Emerging tech for At Home

Medbrige

Evaluation

InFlow Hydration monitor

Spark Motion

Dartfish

Sway Medical App

Force plates

Mind Mirror

Contact Us:

Casey Paulk

Kim Wyand

Jeremy Jackson

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Working definition: Athletic dry needling vs non-athletic dry needling.

There is not a difference between the wording.  We aim to take and make dry needling practical and easy to use.

We filmed professional-quality videos that are included in the course.

What got you started in Dry Needling?

I took 12 CEUs per year for 10 years

What is your favorite application?

The cervical seems to give the biggest outcomes

I love when people are stumped or out of options and willing to try anything

Weirdest needle

Needling has a systemic effect

Pelvic floor dry needling

There are a lot of barriers to entry for the secondary school AT.  

How do you walk through those?

Get the waiver specific to dry needling.

Use a lot less needles

Include stim and needles to reduce the number of needles needed.

Typically I use 16 -20 needles

Young kids, I use less than 10.

If someone is scared of needles, can they do this course?

We get this often.

I try to get them to try a few and see

We have only had one person no-show on the next day due to the fear of needles

When would you apply E-stim to needling?

Allows you to dose needling – essentially make it more or less intense.

Best used for pain mitigation

If they are hesitant

Find out their objections

You can have anything in the world you want if you help enough people get what they want. – Zig Zigler

Call to action:

use SportsMedicineBroadcast.com/DryNeedling for your exclusive discount

Contact Us

Scott Dixon – [email protected]

Scott – 904-853-1921

Jeremy Jackson –

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Contact Us

Jeremy Jackson

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Mark, where are you from and how did you get into Athletic Training?

A family friend owned the Milwaukee Bucks

We used to landscape his yard.

I was a sophomore or junior in high school and got connected with the Bucks AT.

Went through the Internship route

Worked Minor league baseball with the Brewers

Started working with Bellin Health after my internship

Passed on a low A ball job and stayed with Bellin

Tell some of your family origin story…did you have kids, tried but couldn’t, chose to not do natural childbirth…

Been married since 2010

One month before our wedding my wife-to-be ran a marathon and collapsed most of the way through.

2 months into our marriage she did a tilt table test and learned she had low blood pressure.

2011 convention in New Orleans and she was still running

She had a cardiac incident while in the pool…as in she actually died.

She ended up needing an internal defibrillator.

Talk about your adoption journey.

We were trying to have kids, but the heart meds were possibly affecting her.

We started using IVF and failed once, tried again and then my dad fell and broke his femur.  Then we learned that it failed again.

It was heart breaking.

Then my dad passed away the next week.

Most of the football season was a blur due to all of the family trauma.

My wife took the lead in looking into adoption.

We did not know if we wanted local, foreign, foster care, straight adopt.

We connected with adopt help out of California and a social work back here.

Once people know, the stories started coming out of the woodworks.  Lots of people I knew were affected by adoption in one way or another.

April 1st, 2014 we went live with our adoption.  Which was coincidentally our birth mom’s birthday.

What conversations have you had with other ATs about the choice to adopt?

Our adoption is open.

We get lots of friends asking us to speak to friends in family in similar situations.

Our son knows he has a birth mother and a mom and dad here.

Contact

Mark: IG, Twitter

Jeremy – SportsMedicineBroadcast on IG

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Mitigating Secondary Loss is something that hits home for me. Bubba Wilson has taken his role with ATsCare to another level. We recap the summer and one of the best CEU talks I have ever heard.

Where has AT taken you?

JJ: 

Thibodeaux, LA

Dallas, Texas

Arlington

Fort Davis

South Padre

Lansing Michigan

Hot Springs

Las Vegas

New Orleans

San Antonio

JJ Road trip

5 weeks

One van

7 people

Chad from Candid AT

Michigan AT Society Meeting

Meeting Cookie Tuesday in Detroit

Megan Smith at the University of Delaware.

Favorite tourist thing: 

Niagara Falls

Least favorite tourist thing

Statue of Liberty

Bubba

All this travel means you need to have your stuff in order…

I teach and followed the DaveRamsey plan to get out of debt, budget, and have my financial house in order

Talk about secondary loss

Nok box

I Am Dead, Now What

Bubba’s Quick Start Guide

Video from Trinity Sports Medicine Update

Call to action:

Contact:

Bubba Wilson –@ATCLATBubba – on X

Jeremy – @MrJeremyJackson on socials

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

LEADS Academy was created to build foundational leadership and empower the next generation of leaders in the Michigan Athletic Trainers Society. Jacob Ortega-Schultz and Courtney Lewis join me live at MATS 2024.

LEADS

Leadership Excellence and Development Series

Contact Us

Jeremy Jackson

MATS Leadership

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Brian Parker spoke for an hour at the Michigan Athletic Trainers Society annual meeting. Energy drinks, stimulants, drugs and the need to educate athletes.

Taylor took anabolic steroids to get bigger faster stronger. 

He quit cold turkey and that lead him to depression and he chose to take his life.

Brian speaks at a lot of regional meetings and would love to come share Taylor story with your group.

3 questions to ask:

1. Contains banned substances?

2. Am I using it properly? 

3. Is it necessary? 

Just one energy drink can hurt your blood vessel function. 

ALL ME podcast

Contact Us

Jeremy Jackson – MrJeremyJackson on Twitter, SportsMedicineBroadcast on IG, FB

ATCorner Podcast

Ryan Collins

Joseph Eberhardt

Christina Fry

Bob Marley

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Professional Boundaries ebook from Dr. Sadie Adado and the ATvantage.

Dr. Adado, what are some professional boundaries you have put in place?

Scheduling (personal and professional time blocks for zone of Genius)

“Self-care” (exercise, meals, meditation, yoga, reading, walking, family/friends)

Quality improvement project on how I spent my time.

Why did these need to be established?

As a young professional, I hadn’t yet learned what I needed. It took a lot of self-awareness and reflection to understand my own needs so that I could practice putting boundaries in place. 

Walk us through some of these Professional Boundaries conversations.

Self-awareness is a journey. It doesn’t end, it’s continual and ever-changing. 

Tuning into self in each moment will help to outline needs that can be met. 

It is your ownership of that, responsibility that matters. Take action for yourself, no one else will. 

What are some of the boundaries you see other Athletic Trainers needing help with?

I hear ATs talk about being taken advantage of, lowest paid, constantly overworked, etc. The story feels redundant at this point. I wish more ATs felt empowered to change their own script. If you’re burnt out, who has the power to change that? Stop pointing fingers at the system and start being an agent of change. 

Establishing boundaries helps create life balance.  What does life balance look like for you currently?

For me right now, I love my work but it’s definitely not what I spend most of my time or energy on. Some might scoff at that, but truly it’s been a process of shifting the scales so that I came first. My body, my mental health, my spirit, and then my family friends pets.. it took a lot of practice and still does (every day) of ensuring that my cup is full so I can give. 

I love Financial Peace University and we are debt-free including the house.  How do you think finances play into life balance?

I also love the messages about financial peace. Finances play a big role in this balance. 

It can be tough… I was an AT with a Masters salaried working 60+ hrs a week and paid under $40k. I had 3 job offers in the same week and that was the highest… needless to say I lived paycheck to paycheck for a long time, feeling totally stuck. Eventually, I moved to working 5-6 jobs at any time to get “unstuck” but then found myself burnt out. I’m sure this story is familiar.

I decided to put energy into one place. For me, that was starting my small business. This created freedom of my time which is actually the most valuable. Long story short, this journey brought me to where I am now. And I still have multiple sources of income but it’s much more harmonious. 

I think for ATs the balance of life and work does revolve a lot around money. I think we need to talk about it more often. We need to justify and prove our worth not just “say” it.

Contact Us:

Dr. Sadie Adado

Contact Us

Jeremy Jackson

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

IMG Academy offers opportunities for Athletic Trainers different from most secondary settings. Kaitlyn Deshaies and Jared White share what life is like at IMG.

Kaitlyn, how did you get into Athletic Training, and what led you to IMG?

I was an injured athlete in high school.

I met an AT while traveling with the team and knew Athletic Training was what I was meant to do.

Jared, How did you get into Athletic Training

Planned to go to med school and do orthopedics because I loved being in and around sports.

A random guy was sitting behind our bench with a little black bag and I started asking questions about him and what he did.

I had zero previous experience with Athletic Trainers.

Went to Anderson State University then transferred back to middle Tennessee State

Worked with Vanderbilt

GA at Auburn

Season intern with the KC Chiefs

Became the head AT for the KC Brigade Arena football

Became head AT in Nashville at a D2 school for about 7 years.

At the interview, I loved the IMG academy environment and leadership.

The academy has a boarding school with the traditional student life.

We do not have tryouts, but we have 12 support teams for the one baseball director.

We also have campers throughout the year.

Many pro teams use our campus as an off-season host site.

We are a for-profit business.

We have a very diverse population of TV Stars, a 10-year-old tennis player who is the son of an Abu Dhabi prince, professional athletes, and working-class athletes.

Wayne said there are a lot of unique growth opportunities for an AT at IMG.  Can you explain?

You may have a camper here for a week or a student with a torn ACL.

Our ATs have a lot of physician interaction and see a lot of injuries.

Both Kaitlyn and Jared have been forced to grow.

As a for-profit business, we have to help the company make money.

Personal and professional growth.

We are focused on customer experience. Our staff has to understand the ins and outs of the business.

We are housed in a building that houses strength coaches, nutritionists, mental health specialists, leadership and character development, and sports science and data analytics.

We get to work with a lot of sponsors like Gatorade or Under Armor.

IMG Academy’s summer hires are looking for a staffer who can be part of our team in the future.  

A good candidate needs to be a part of the team and do the same tasks as the full-time staff.

You do need to be an LAT to work in Florida.

We started the growth summit where we host an entire week of education for our AT staff.

How to read imaging

Dermatology issues

Suji BFR will host a course

Emergency Med situations

CPR AED, Emergency transport

ROM and measurement education

Where have some of the ATs who left IMG gone to?

Some have gone home and had a family, and some have springboarded into their dream jobs.

We have alumni in almost all aspects of athletic training.

Clinical, hospital, LPGA, NFL

How does IMG Academy provide life balance?

We have 23 athletic trainers now and hire 7 during the summer camp season.

We do not have a “hard” PTO schedule.  If you can swap with someone to attend to a personal event then do it.

We only have 9 sports and have multiple ATs working baseball but have 200 baseball players.

Contact Us:

Jeremy Jackson – THE SMB on IG

Kaitlyn – [email protected]

Jared – [email protected]

These people LOVE Athletic Trainers and help support the podcast:

Frio Hydration – Superior Hydration products.

Donate and get some swag (like Patreon but for the school)

HOIST – No matter your reason for dehydration DRINK HOIST

MedBridge Education – Use “TheSMB” to save some money, be entered in a drawing for a second year free, and support the podcast.

Marc Pro – Use “THESMB” to recover better.

Athletic Dry Needling – Save up to $100 when registering through our link.

Stephanie Greeson is going back to school after age 50 to earn her BOC. She has been an LAT since graduating college.

Contact Us

Jeremy Jackson – MrJeremyJackson on Twitter, SportsMedicineBroadcast on IG, FB

ATCorner Podcast

Ryan Collins

Joseph Eberhardt

Christina Fry

Bob Marley