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#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: Sports Nutrition and Wellness

#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: Sports Nutrition and Wellness

by | Apr 4, 2018 | Sports Medicine

On this week’s Facebook live, the hospital’s Director of Wellness Taylor Morrison, M.S., R.D., L.D.  joined us to discuss her role with our sports medicine patients and overall wellness at the hospital. Below is a recap of the conversation.

Watch the live segment. 

What is her role with our patients?

  • She is a sports dietician who works specifically with our sports medicine patients.
  • She has appointments at our Plano campus every first, second and third Fridays of the month.
  • Provides guidance and education on meal plans tailored to the athlete depending on their sport, age, weight and development stage.

What are the most common issues seen in young athletes?

  • Stress fractures from high level training and overuse injuries.
  • From high intensity training or multisport involvement, many athletes are not taking in enough calories.
  • As the athlete grows and develops, their body requires more calories to have sufficient energy to perform.
  • Young athletes skipping meals.

Calcium and Vitamin D deficiencies in young athletes – what foods can help with this?

  • Best sources of calcium: milk, yogurt and cheese
  • By meeting with the nutritionist, if your child does not like these options, she will help you be creative in finding ways to incorporate calcium and vitamin D into their diet.
    • Smoothie, oatmeal made with milk, etc.

What should parents know about making an appointment with the sports nutritionist? 

  • She only sees sports medicine patients who have a referral from their physician at Scottish Rite Hospital.
  • Once the referral comes through, the athlete is scheduled for a clinic visit with the nutritionist.

Athletes who are vegetarians:

  • Provide education to the athletes and caregivers on being creative when it comes to meals to make sure they are getting all the nutrients needed to be successful.
  • Learn more from our blog.

Wellness at the hospital:

  • Healthier option offered each day.
  • Different stations: pre-made sandwiches, grill, deli, salad bar and other options.
  • ‘Eat Rite’ logo designates the food as a healthy option. Dietitians at the hospital evaluate the meal to make sure it meets certain criteria as a healthy food.
  • Dieticians work closely with the hospitals’ chefs to make tasty and healthy options.
  • Examples of healthy options include:
    • Grab & go salads and sandwiches
    • Pretzels and hummus
    • Vegetarian and vegan soups
Beyond the Basics: Keeping Young Athletes Safe in Winter Sports

Beyond the Basics: Keeping Young Athletes Safe in Winter Sports

by | Feb 8, 2018 | Sports Medicine

It’s well known that each sport has its own rules and regulations. These are meant to protect participants from known risks and injuries. For example, in snow skiing and snowboarding, helmets are certainly the most important piece of equipment to reduce the severity of head injury with falls. This is especially true for faster, more experienced skiers. Wrist guards are also a top priority to prevent broken bones during falls while snowboarding.

Large joints, like the shoulder, knee and ankle, are at risk for injuries during falls and with extreme motions that occur with near-falls in snow sports. General fitness, cross-training and pre-season preparation, all in partnership with sport-specific safety training, will lead to improved body control and potentially, fewer falls. Watch this video of Henry Ellis, M.D., talking about his experience as a team physician for the U.S. Ski Team and their off-season training habits.

Researchers continue to look at non-contact knee injuries in sports like soccer and basketball. As with snow skiing and snowboarding, these sports put the knee at risk for injury when the leg is planted and twisted with the knee in a slightly flexed position. Training programs can prepare athletes to better control their knees in these risky positions. Strengthening leg and trunk muscles also improves stability and control. Improved control leads to lower risk of injury.

Injury prevention is not just about following the rules and wearing the proper equipment. Here are our suggestions to help your young athlete safely enjoy many sports:

  • Endurance training prevents early fatigue, which is known to cause falls and injuries in any sport. Ride a bicycle or run to improve your cardiovascular and muscle endurance.
  • Leg strengthening exercises create balance around the hip and knee joints. Use resistance exercises to strengthen on all major muscle groups of the legs.
  • Upper body strengthening exercises create stability for the shoulder, a very mobile joint. Perform weight-bearing activities to strengthen the upper back and stabilize the shoulder blade.
  • Core strengthening provides stability that helps with balance as well as proper form. Perform traditional abdominal strengthening exercises as well as activities that incorporate the entire body.
  • Plyometric activities improve neuromuscular control in dynamic positions. Perform jumping and landing exercises with a focus on control and proper form.

For information about injury prevention and pediatric sports medicine, please visit our website at Scottish Rite.

#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: The Future Frisco Campus

#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: The Future Frisco Campus

by | Oct 25, 2017 | Sports Medicine

On this week’s Facebook live, Vice President of North Campus Jeremy Howell and Assistant Chief of Staff Philip L. Wilson, M.D. joined us to discuss the future Frisco campus. Below is a recap of the conversation.

Watch this segment on Facebook.

Construction update:

  • The construction is running right on schedule.
  • Opening in the Fall of 2018

Who are our Frisco neighbors?

  • The Frisco campus is located on the northeast corner of Lebanon Road and Dallas North Tollway.
  • To the north, our direct neighbor is Frisco High School.
  • To the south is the new Wade Park development and the Frisco Star.

What is the difference between the Plano and the future Frisco campus?

  • Increased space to utilize more resources for expand services.
  • Operating rooms for day surgeries
  • Motion science lab
  • Physical therapy gym space
  • Overall clinical care advancements and updates to current services.

Facts about the structure:

  • 5 stories tall
  • 1st floor:
    • Conference rooms for community and physician education and outreach
    • State-of-the-art motion science lab for clinical and research purposes
    • Physical therapy gym to rehab sports injuries and general orthopedic conditions
  • 2nd floor:  
    • Outpatient clinics (sports medicine, fracture clinic, general orthopedics, orthotics and prosthetics)
  • 3rd floor: shelled for future growth
  • 4th floor: day surgery
  • 5th floor: offices for staff

What are the general orthopedic services that will be provided?

  • An expansion of what the team currently cares for at the Plano campus.
  • Hip disorders, scoliosis screening, foot and ankle, shoulder care, etc.

What is the benefit of being in Frisco?

  • 25% of the hospital’s patient population lives in a surrounding areas of Frisco.
  • The opportunity to enhance customer service by providing another point of access for our patients and their families to be cared for by our world-renowned specialists.
  • Frisco is a strong sports community. The Center for Excellence in Sports Medicine will be the anchor to the future campus, which will allow us to care for more athletes.

What will the state-of-the-art motion science lab offer at the new campus?

  • The lab will provide a better understanding of clinical problems of lower and upper extremity conditions whether a sports injury or general orthopedic condition.
  • The ability to analyze the function of each joint and muscle of a patient’s walking gait or throwing mechanics.
  • The opportunity to expand on various research projects.

Will the Scottish Rite Hospital traditions be present at the future campus?

  • Popcorn – yes, on the first floor in the atrium.
  • Volunteers – yes, in red coats just like at the main campus.
Jesus’ Moment – Sports Medicine

Jesus’ Moment – Sports Medicine

by | Oct 2, 2017 | Sports Medicine

Jesus has loved soccer since age 6. When he turned 12, a torn ACL took him out of the game. Thankfully, Jesus was in the hands of Scottish Rite Hospital sports medicine physicians who repaired his knee and got him back on the field – goal scored!

Give a child their moment: A contribution of $200 helps support the treatment and therapy of a young athlete receiving care from the hospital’s Center for Excellence in Sports Medicine. To donate or learn more, visit scottishritehospital.org/donate/more-ways-to-give/.

For more information on our Center for Excellence in Sports Medicine, visit scottishritehospital.org/sports.

FOX 4: Study finds concussion concerns for girls

FOX 4: Study finds concussion concerns for girls

by | Sep 15, 2017 | Press Coverage, Sports Medicine

Visit FOX 4’s website to watch Miller’s full interview and learn more about the importance of following proper concussion protocol.

A new study found girls were significantly more likely than boys to return to play
the same day following a soccer-related concussion, placing them at risk for more significant
injury.

The study examined young athletes, average age 14, who sustained a concussion while playing
soccer and who were treated at a pediatric sports medicine clinic in Texas. Of the 87 athletes
diagnosed with a soccer-related concussion, two-thirds (66.7 percent) were girls. Among them,
more than half (51.7 percent) resumed playing in a game or practice the same day as their injury,
compared to just 17.2 percent of boys.

“The girl soccer players were 5 times more likely than boys to return to play on the same day as
their concussion,” said Shane M. Miller, MD, FAAP, senior author of the abstract and a sports
medicine physician at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. “This is cause for concern,
especially with previous studies showing that girls suffer twice as many concussions as boys,” he
said.

“Consistent with our findings in other sports, young soccer players are returning to play on the
same day despite recommendations from medical organizations, such as the American Academy
of Pediatrics, and laws in all 50 states intended to protect their growing brains,” he said. “Despite
increased concerns about the risks of concussions, the culture among athletes to tough it out and
play through an injury often takes priority over the importance of reporting an injury and coming
out of a game or practice.”

FriscoVoice: Youth Sports, Pediatric Orthopedics Take Center-Court in Frisco, Texas

FriscoVoice: Youth Sports, Pediatric Orthopedics Take Center-Court in Frisco, Texas

by | Sep 5, 2017 | Press Coverage, Sports Medicine

Originally published on Forbes’ FriscoVoice.

As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas and the state’s appetite for athletics certainly holds up its end of the bargain when it comes to that designation. In fact, Texans would argue that no one takes their sports as seriously as the Lone Star state –  especially when it comes to youth athletics.

From Little League baseball and high school football, to everything in between, sports are a big deal in Texas. Keeping the state’s athletic machine firing on all cylinders is no easy task, particularly in today’s world where athletic specialization and elite training activities are creating a growing concern for increasing rates of repetitive stress injuries for children. In this athletic climate, there is an ever-increasing demand for pediatric orthopedic specialists.

Among those leading the sports-medicine charge in the state is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, a world-renowned leader in the treatment of pediatric orthopedic conditions. The hospital certainly operates on the leading edge of medical technology, but it has a much more grounded mission – helping the less fortunate.

Scottish Rite Hospital was established in 1921 when a group of Texas Mason approached Dallas’ first orthopedic surgeon, Dr. W. B. Carrell, about caring for children with polio regardless of a family’s ability to pay. Since then Scottish Rite Hospital has treated more than 275,000 children, with more than 40,000 clinic visits each year. The hospital, guided by the principle of giving children back their childhood, takes a multidisciplinary approach to care, tailoring treatment to the individual needs of each child and family.

Scottish Rite Hospital, which has trained more pediatric orthopedic surgeons than any other institution in the world and holds more than 25 patents for pediatric orthopedic devices and techniques, is now planning to give even more kids their childhoods back, by helping them get back on the field of play.

Based on the state’s burgeoning athletic population and a growing need for innovative sports medicine, Scottish Rite Hospital will be expanding its operations through the opening of a new location outside of Dallas, its home for more than 95 years. The new facility, located about 25 miles north in Frisco, Texas, is expected to open in Fall 2018 and will be anchored by the Center for Excellence in Sports Medicine.

“This location made a lot of sense for a number of reasons during the initial phase of our site-selection process,” said Jeremy Howell, vice president for Scottish Rite Hospital’s North Campus. “For starters, we noticed that a quarter of our patient population was coming from this region, and while we serve patients from all over the country, Frisco was a logical fit for our future growth.

“We also saw a very active youth population in Frisco where we could easily share our expertise and innovations. Sports medicine is the fastest growing sub-specialty in pediatric orthopedics, so we are pleased to align with one of the most sports-minded communities in the state.”

In both locations, the hospital will continue to advance care through innovative research and teaching programs, while training physicians from around the world.

“The new facility will have an extensive physical therapy and rehabilitation component to provide quality, first-class patient care, as well as a number of other features in alignment with our core beliefs surrounding research and education,” said Assistant Chief of Staff Philip L. Wilson, M.D., who will oversee the sports medicine practice in Frisco.  “Our revolutionary movement science lab will use 3-D motion capture technology to analyze complex musculoskeletal movements and help evaluate the efficacy of treatments, providing new levels of insight to the pediatric orthopedic community.

The new facility will also further expand the hospital’s focus on education by hosting lectures and seminars for medical professionals through its conference center and teaching facility. Scottish Rite Hospital puts a premium on teaching and educating families and community providers about the conditions we treat,” Wilson added.

As one of the fastest-growing communities in the nation, Frisco is on the move.  And as construction continues on Scottish Rite Hospital’s Frisco campus, some of the things that pediatric sports medicine considers – like growth, speed and strength – have a striking similarity with Frisco’s evolution as a one of the brightest spots for development in the U.S.

Frisco, whose population has grown 380 percent since 2000, continues to draw new residents from around the globe. Known for its sports culture, exemplary schools and diverse community, the city is a magnet for a skilled workforce attracted to Frisco’s family-friendly atmosphere.

Supported by strong infrastructure, exceptional leadership and quality commercial development, Frisco has also been recognized by Money magazine as one of the top 100 places to live in the U.S.

As Frisco continues to expand, it will have a long-term partner in Scottish Rite Hospital. Together they will help keep Texas at the top of youth sports and safety.