Gymnastics Sports Medicine Program Implementation: A Multi-Disciplinary and Comprehensive Approach to Athlete Care

Course overview

In this course, we will talk about creating your health care team. Who is a part of this group for all athletes, and who is available as needed for individual cases? We will discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary approach to health care proactive, preventative and reactive and the roles that many can serve for individual athletes and the aggregate team. The people may be in place, but equally important are the forms, the process and procedure for checking standards, documenting, follow through and more. Following SafeSport guidelines for respecting the privacy of the athletes health information has to be balanced with proper treatment team communication and information availability. We will touch on SafeSport and Athlete Wellness laws guidelines for Mandatory Reporters, abuse mental, physical and emotional awareness and reporting procedure guidelines.