BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW
When it comes to sports injuries, the earlier one receives proper care, the sooner they will be back at 100 per cent and the chances of re-injury will be greatly reduced.
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Dr. Aaron Stauber, a chiropractor will hold a sports injury symposium on Saturday, Dec. 6 at the McClelland Arena. The program will begin at 9 am. There will be a lunch break and the symposium will end around 2 pm. Admission is free.
The symposium provides information for people involved in sports on how to stay healthy, injury free and if injured, proper ways of dealing with the injury.
"It's for anyone involved in sports whether they're a coach, an athlete, parent or trainer," said Stauber. "They will get a good understanding of how not to get injured and if they are, how to properly treat those injuries."
Stauber knows the perils of being an athlete.
He grew up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He was always involved in sports, but basketball was his true passion. Stauber rode his passion all the way to the University of Minnesota, where he played for the menÂ?s basketball team and studied physiology. In his third year, the team went through a miserable season with numerous players suffering injuries. The following year, the team implemented a sports injury prevention program.
It was an instant success as the team didn't suffer any major injuries and went all the way to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Final Four in 1997 before losing to the University of Kentucky.
"In that time as a basketball player I first noticed the difference between great teams and bad teams," said Stauber. "The teams that made it to the top were injury free. In my last year, we educated ourselves about staying injury free and we had everybody healthy. We won the Big Ten Championship and went to the Final Four. It shows what being injury free can accomplish."
Stauber will focus on different types of athletes and the specific injuries relating to them, as well as proper diets, training, injury prevention and assessment.
It will be an interactive forum with a question and answer period.
"It's part of a community service," said Stauber. "It's to get people more knowledgeable about health and how to function at 100 per cent. A lot of people have an idea about what health is, but people are not aware of how to let their body heal properly when they have an injury."
Taking good care of an injury when it happens is critical to not having a recurring injury come back and haunt an athlete in the future.
"Taking care of things properly when the injury happens is the best way to prevent an injury from coming back or injuring another part of your body," said Stauber.
There are three things athletes should know.
"One is obviously not to get injured," said Stauber. "Two, what to do if you're injured and three, how to allow yourself the time to recover from an injury so you can return to your full potential."
