Interview

After school I interview Kim, and got the following information....With spring sports bustling through the training room, we chatted and had a nice talk about these specific questions.

1. How many hours of work do you have a week? responsibilities? Such as before/during/after practices
-It depends on the season of each sport, usually fall sports require the most amount of hours, and spring is the least because of games ending earlier. I spend anywhere from 15-45 hours in total a week. My responsibilities include taping, looking over injuries and progression with each athlete, and provide any service that's in my power.

2.  What are you planning on getting when the new building is built? What supplies do you wish you had?
-Were getting a whole new training room, the hospital and medical center are providing a whirl pool, new tables, and more 2 longer tables. I wish I had more room as a whole, and more room for rehabbing. This includes having an eliptical, bike, wall straps, and permanent therabands.



3. Responsibilities during games? Topic of hydration
-During the game I mostly keep an eye on the game, and evaluate any injuries that occur. Athletic Trainers are usually the ones to check the weather, and especially watch for lightning. As for hydration, I check weather, and look at the field weather. If the temp. is over 90, we modify practices. And if the temp. on the field is over 95 then we immediately cancel any play. It's important to provide water before and after any type of play during this weather. 

4. Describe Physical Therapy aspect? Connection with Dr. Getzin
-Dr. Getzin is my medical supervisor, which every Athletic Trainer must have. He is the physician that overseas my work, and is on-call all the time for injuries at IHS. Because there isn't much physical therapy that can go on at IHS, I'm in contact with Getzin about putting athletes into therapy at Cayuga Medical Center.

5. Cayuga Medical Center duties?
-I am a physician's extender which entails helping order x-rays, remove casts, help with injections, take patients histories, and much more.


6. High school vs. College injuries?
-I believe that their are more injuries in high school. Athletes are still developing skill level, and still developing their bodies. Their are far more high school teams in existence, and injuries sometimes relate to poor conditioning. Athletes in high school are always less prepared, especially when they make a large jump from modified sports to varsity.

7. Common sports specific injuries?
-Basketball: Concussion, ankles
-Football: ACL, Concussions, Hip Flexor
-Wrestling: Skin infections, Elbow dislocations, Shoulder
-Soccer: ACL


8. Topic of concussions and impact testing
-It's been a very important topic in the media, which has helped the issue, and made it more well-known. The downfall has also been over-diagnosing, because of the scare which come along with concussions now. With talk of adding helmets to Girls Lacrosse, you can see how big of an impact this injury has on all contact sports.