ACL

UATA Holds Annual Meeting in Cedar City

On December 2, 2017, the Utah Athletic Trainers' Association held their annual meeting at Southern Utah University in Cedar City.  Kregg Lunt, MSPT began the morning speaking on shoulder rehabilitation while Alyssa Gomez finished out the conference speaking on sports nutrition for the collegiate athlete. Overall, the day focused on prevention, surgical techniques, and rehabilitation of the ACL. Ron Chamberlain, PhD, CC-AASP discussed with the attendees the psychological considerations when working with ACL patients.  Other speakers included Cody Bremner, PhD, LAT, ATC (Recommendations to Increase NMES Training Intensity), Robert Nakken, MD (Prevention and Surgical Techniques of ACLs), and Jona Droubay, DPT, ATC (Post-operative ACL Rehabilitation Protocol and Progressions.