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Return to Weight Lifting: A Guide for Young Athletes After Injury
Patients in the Scottish Rite for Children sports medicine clinic may lift weights as part of their primary sport training or with a strength and conditioning coach to supplement sport-specific training. When an injured athlete is released back to activities that...
Get to Know our Staff: Lindsey Ham, Therapy Services
What is your job title/your role at Scottish Rite for Children? I am an occupational therapist and certified hand therapist working primarily at the Frisco campus. What do you do on a daily basis or what sort of duties do you have at work? My primary role is an...
Stress Fractures in the Spine: Spondylolysis
Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Jaysson T. Brooks, M.D., presented this as part of Coffee, Kids and Orthopedics education series. Brooks provided a detailed discussion of evaluating stress fractures in the spines of adolescents. You can watch the full...
Iron for the Young Athlete
Iron is a mineral that helps the body make red blood cells. These cells carry oxygen throughout the body.How much iron do children and teens need? There are daily recommended amounts of iron based on age and gender. Athletes and active individuals may need more...
OCD Didn’t Keep This Lacrosse Player Off the Field Long
Seventeen-year-old Eli has been a leader on the lacrosse field since he started playing at the age of 8. He currently plays lacrosse with the Frisco Lacrosse Association and is an outside linebacker on Frisco ISD’s Lone Star High School football team. This...
OCD Didn’t Keep This Lacrosse Player Off the Field Long
Seventeen-year-old Eli has been a leader on the lacrosse field since he started playing at the age of 8. He currently plays lacrosse with the Frisco Lacrosse Association and is an outside linebacker on Frisco ISD’s Lone Star High School football team. This...
Get to Know our Staff: Veronica Meneses, M.D.
What is your job title/your role at Scottish Rite for Children? I am a developmental-behavioral pediatrician at Scottish Rite and direct the Developmental-Behavioral Clinic of the Pediatric Developmental Disabilities Department. Also, I care for children and...
A Bridge Back to the Game
Specially designed for young athletes, Scottish Rite’s training classes help build strength, conditioning and confidence for both patients following rehabilitation after an injury and participants interested in overall athletic performance improvement. Program...
The Comeback Kid
Cover story previously published in Rite Up, 2021 – Issue 3. by Hayley Hair The Comeback is Bigger Than the Setback On the wide-open field under the scorching summer sun, soccer player Lillian lines up her kick and launches the soccer ball through the air hurtling...
Get to Know our Staff: Rushi Patel, Therapy Services
What is your job title/your role at Scottish Rite for Children? I am a sports physical therapist. What do you do on a daily basis or what sort of duties do you have at work? As a sports physical therapist, I help rehabilitate patients following a wide variety of...
A Backpack for Your Brace
When Jennifer Pruitt’s daughter Eva was diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and prescribed a brace, it sparked an idea that has now become a real-life solution for other Scottish Rite families starting their journey with scoliosis bracing. ...
NBC DFW: Arlington Boy Gets New Prosthetic Leg in Time for Dream Halloween Costume
All Julian wanted to be for Halloween was his favorite football player, Amari Cooper of the Dallas Cowboys. After bone cancer led to the amputation of his left leg this past summer, Julian received his first custom-made prosthetic leg, from the experts at Scottish...
Dallas Morning News: Cowboys’ Amari Cooper goes above and beyond for cancer patient who wanted to be the WR for Halloween
Julian is a huge Dallas Cowboys supporter and one of Amari Cooper’s biggest fans! After bone cancer led to the amputation of his left leg this past summer, Julian’s love of football kept him going. Learn more about Julian and his first custom-made prosthetic leg. ...
Get to Know our Staff: Karen Avrit, Dyslexia
What is your job title/your role at Scottish Rite for Children? I serve as the director of dyslexia education in the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia & Learning Disorders. My role is multifaceted — I work closely with those who oversee our dyslexia lab school,...
Keeping Up with the Count: Hip Health in Dancers
Dancers and other performing artists place demands on their hips that are unlike those of other athletes. Movements push the range of motion of their hips to extreme ends from an early age. They must have the flexibility for turnouts, leaps, or grand battements,...