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Preventing
Female Athlete Injuries
What are the
Injuries of the Female Athlete?
Kathy
Coakley, PTA, ATC
Owner, COASTherapy
The
female athlete experiences the same types of injuries as men,
(tendonitis, bursitis, musculoskeletal, fractures, sprains).
What is quite different is why and how these injuries
occur. Females are
anatomically different, hormonally different, and
developmentally
different and can influence injuries sustained while participating
in sports differently than men.
In this seminar we will explore those differences and most common injuries women develop in the knee, shoulder,
spine, lower leg and foot. Quick
hints on how to avoid these injuries before they start and quick treatment protocol athletes can take home if
they do start.
Kathy
Coakley, PTA, ATC. Owner, COASTherapy
Kathy has an extensive background in physical therapy and
sports medicine and has owned COASTherapy for fifteen years.
As a skilled athletic trainer she has traveled with the U.S. Track & Field
Teams, the U.S. Olympic Cycling Teams, the U.S. Badminton
Teams, the U.S. Olympic Junior Volleyball Teams, the MVP beach
Volleyball, and Women’s
Professional Softball Teams.
In the 1984 Olympic Games she was selected as the Coordinator
of Sports Medicine for cycling and worked with the Olympic
Committee
for over a year. In
addition to Kathy’s involvement with competitive sport, she has
taught sports medicine classes at the University of
California Riverside, Cal State San Bernadino, Pepperdine
University and Chapman College.
Kathy is a licensed Physical Therapy
Assistant and Certiifed AthleticTrainer.
She also has a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from
UCLA.
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