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Vince Disabella, DO Well I hope everyone had a healthy and happy summer. Now as we fly through August most of us begin our “Silly Season.” As the students return to school and we all gear up for Fall Sports Seasons I wanted to remind everyone of a few things going on in the AOASM.

First, I would like to remind everyone to sign up as Sports Medicine for OMED in Orlando, October 30- November 3, 2011. This will help you get your specialty credits and also help the AOASM. We are offering 15.25 CME credit hours which are packed with great speakers talking on cutting edge Sports Medicine topics. The full program is posted on the OMED website.
I would like everyone to take a look at the text book the AOASM has available, Osteopathic Clinical Joint Exam. This fine text is a great reference for students, residents and practicing physicians. I have also been recommending it to our athletic trainers and my allopathic colleagues. This book should make every AOASM member proud as so many were part of producing it, and the profits from this book will make the AOASM more financially stable.
I would like to encourage everyone to check out our website links and new business partner relationships. These partnerships can help every AOASM member in their individual practices and also help the AOASM provide quality educational programs for our membership.
I would like everyone to follow Past AOA President Karen Nichols lead and be a mentor. There are many young osteopathic physicians and potential osteopathic physicians who can benefit from your experience. “Adopt” a medical student or resident to help foster their interest in Osteopathic Sports Medicine. If you have contact with college students, allow them to shadow you or use any opportunity you get to teach them about our great profession. Don’t forget that you are also a role model to the high school students we all take care of. A simple conversation on the field or in the training room may be the spark that produces another Osteopathic Sports Medicine Physician. My first exposure to Osteopathic Sports Medicine was when Michael Cordas, D.O., FAOASM, took care of me as a high school junior when I had a minor wrestling injury. He was the physician for a rival team, but I was injured at their gym. That brief interaction, and my realizing he handled things differently than other doctors I had seen, was what planted the seed.

I would like to wish everyone a healthy and happy fall. I hope to see many of you in Orlando this fall and in the spring in Louisville at the Clinical Conference. Thank you for all you do for the AOASM and God Bless.

Sincerely

Vince Disabella, D.O., FAOASM
President AOASM

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Sports Medicine: A Definition

Sports medicine is a branch of the healing arts profession which utilizes a holistic, comprehensive approach to the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sport and exercise-related injuries, disorders, dysfunctions and disease processes.

The Osteopathic Sports Medicine Physician's practice shall include:

Providing comprehensive medical management of the athlete across a broad scope of specializations.
Recognizing the importance of utilizing special manual medicine skills in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of neuromusculo-skeletal injuries, disorders, dysfunctions and diseases.
Understanding the principles of performance enhancers, coaching techniques, training methods and sport specific rules and regulations.
Understanding the science of injury prevention and recognition, advanced rehabilitation techniques and epidemiology.
Applying and promoting wellness concepts to the general public.
Directing the application of sports science in improving the health care of athletes, the general public and those with special needs.

Athlete: A Definition

The term athlete refers to an individual who is engaged in sport, exercise or physical activity at the recreational, industrial, competitive, professional or elite level.

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