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The Virginia Tech Sports Medicine department is constantly evolving to
incorporate new ideas, utilizing state-of-the-art resources for the betterment
of all Hokie student-athletes. Under the leadership of Associate Athletics
Director for Sports Medicine, Mike Goforth and the men’s basketball athletic
trainer, Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Medicine, Ernest Eugene,
the department is constantly improving and developing new strategies to
provide the most current and comprehensive care.
The team of certified athletic trainers, orthopaedic surgeons, Board
Certified primary care physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists,
sport psychologists, nutritionists, massage therapists and orthotists are
available on site to manage the health care needs of Tech athletes. The staff
continually looks for ways to enhance the services provided for its athletes,
as evidenced by its participation in local and national projects pertaining
to related topics such as concussion management, prevention of antibiotic
resistant types of staph infection (MRSA), high ankle sprains and collegiate
health care management strategies. Research is considered instrumental to
the sports medicine department, which has participated in several projects
with the engineering department and school of education.
The Hahn Hurst Basketball Practice Center contains a fully-equipped athletic
training room. This area features two examination rooms, a taping area and
hot and cold immersion tubs. A state-of-the-art Alter G rehab machine also
is located in this area. Eugene and the sports medicine staff can handle all
aspects of treatment and rehabilitation of injuries from this room.
Athletes have many options to help prevent or protect them from injuries.
The sports medicine staff takes great pride in treating athletes year-round.
Special attention is paid to offseason activity. The staff will analyze past
injury data from each participant and construct a preventative program.
Dr. Brad McCrady, D.O, C.A.Q., FAAPMR, serves as the team physician for
the men’s basketball team. Dr. McCrady and his team of physicians offer the
Hokies a full range of medical care. He is a part of Academic Primary Care
Associates where he practices sports medicine and orthopedics.
Team orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Christopher Catterson is in his first year
as team orthopedic surgeon. He has been with Carlion Clinic since 2008.
Along with his duties at Virginia Tech athletics, Dr. Catterson is the assistant
professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Virginia Tech School of Medicine
in Roanoke, Virginia
The centerpiece of the department is the recently enlarged and renovated
Eddie Ferrell Memorial Athletic Training Room. The facility gives the athletic
training staff a centralized area to care for the needs of all Virginia Tech
student-athletes. There is top-of-the-line equipment combined with a unique
style of architecture, developed by Glenn Reynolds, AIA and Larry Perry as
the consulting engineer.
Reynolds helped Tech spearhead the expansion project that doubled the
size of the athletic training room and united the entire medical staff, putting
both the athletic trainers and doctors under one roof. The expanded facility
opened in the spring of 2014.
Tech has more than 10,000 square feet dedicated to sports medicine,
placing it in the top five percent nationally. The athletic training room also
has offices for the staff, dozens of training tables, two cold tubs, whirlpools,
an underwater treadmill, a Biodex System 3 and various other pieces of
rehabilitation equipment and treatment modalities.
The team of physical therapists play a large role in the overall program
developed to return an injured athlete to 100 percent. The availability of
a team chiropractor provides Tech athletes with specialized treatment for
spine-related conditions and plays a huge role in performance enhancement
through various chiropractic techniques.
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