Integrating Hydrotherapy into a Collegiate Sports Medicine Program

 

Presented By:  Phil Voorhis, MSEd., ATC, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine & Athletic Training at Northern Illinois University

Perform at St. George's Park

 

In this webinar Phil Voorhis will outline the valuable role that hydrotherapy plays in his university’s sports medicine program. He will begin with why he and his team decided to explore incorporating hydrotherapy into their facility and the decision making process that led to the purchase of their pool. He will discuss the logistics of integrating this piece of hydrotherapy equipment into their facility, including overcoming initial challenges and concerns. He will also describe the day to day management of an effective collegiate hydrotherapy program that treats athletes from multiple sports and how he and his team maximize the use of their pool. Phil will finish with a unique case study of the rehabilitation of an Abductor Longus Avulsion in a college football player.

 

During the webinar attendees will learn:

  • The advantages of water for a collegiate sports medicine program
  • Why Phil and his team at NIU chose to implement hydrotherapy
  • How to successfully manage a large project like incorporating hydrotherapy into an athletic facility
  • Tips for athletic trainers new to using hydrotherapy for college athletes
  • How to successfully manage the day to day operations of a college hydrotherapy program
  • Ways to ensure that a hydrotherapy pool is used to its full potential

 

*Continuing Education (you must attend the live webinar in its entirety):

Athletic Trainers: One CEU available for Athletic Trainers through BOC (P3003)
All Others: Certificates will be available if you wish to petition your certification agency for CEUs.

 

how the use of aquatic therapy during recovery periods can revitalize and amplify athletic performance.
According to the Institute for Integrative Healthcare Studies, the use of contrasting temperatures – also known as contrast therapy – has been used as a healing tool for thousands of years.  The contrast between heat and cold is believed to exert a physiological effect on the body’s pain mechanism.
In this webinar Lance and Lindsey will share ways to reduce soreness and enhance muscle recovery in your athletes using water therapy.  They will demonstrate how water therapy has given their athletes at Michael Johnson Performance an edge by performing  recovery exercises in the pool to actively flush the body, add additional caloric ‘burn’ to the weekly microcycle, and incorporate joint motion in deloaded states.
Attendees will learn how they can see better outcomes by utilizing active recovery in the water rather than passive recovery during breaks from intense training sessions in order to keep the muscles moving as they heal from exercise-induced microscopic tears.

*Continuing Education (you must attend the live webinar in it's entirety):

Athletic Trainers: One CEU available for Athletic Trainers through BOC (Course ID: P3003-2000)
All Others: Certificates will be available if you wish to petition your certification agency for CEUs.

P3003-2001

What Past Webinar Attendees are Saying:

 

The presenters did an excellent job of explaining the rationale for the exercises. This
was an interesting look at how to develop speed both on land and in the water.”

 - P.S. (webinar previously attended: "Use of Aquatics for Improving Linear Speed Mechanics", May 21,2013 presented by Lance Walker )

 

 

"Thank you for sharing this information.  It is "value added" to the use of our HydroWorx pool!"

- J.M. (webinar previously attended: "Use of Aquatics for Improving Linear Speed Mechanics", May 21,2013 presented by Lance Walker )

Thank you for sharing this information.  It is "value added" to the use of our Hydroworx pool!
(webinar previously attended: "Use of Aquatics for Improving Linear Speed Mechanics", May 21,2013 presented by Lance Walker )

SPEAKER BIO:

Phil Voorhis has spent the last 14 seasons leading the NIU sports medicine operation. He directs a staff of 10 athletic trainers who provide Northern Illinois' 486 student-athletes in 17 sports programs with medical care at each practice and competition. Voorhis works directly with the Huskie football and men's and women's golf teams.

 

A certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (N.A.T.A.), Voorhis is also an active participant in the Great Lakes and Illinois Athletic Trainers Associations. He is a past president of the IATA after a term as regional representative to that group's Board of Directors and has given numerous speeches to such groups as the Illinois State Bar Association, the GLATA Winter Symposium and the N.AT.A.

 

In addition to his work with Huskie student-athletes, Voorhis has been an advocate for preventative medical care and safety on campus. Through his efforts, defibrillators were added to all university police vehicles and at all major campus athletics venues. He instituted a CPR certification requirement for all Northern Illinois Athletics staff and is active with the local chapter of the American Red Cross, working with that organization's Disaster Team and as an instructor.

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