Sports Medicine - Services - Pella Regional Health Center in Southern Iowa

Mission
Meet our Staff
ATC/PT
Student Athlete Services
GolfPLUS
SportsPLUS
Specialty Services

Our area's comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility includes our sports medicine program, specializing in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.

Mission

Our mission is to provide the student, student-athlete, and faculties of our area schools with access to high quality athletic training and sports medicine care.

Purpose

Provide prevention and early intervention of athletic injuries
Recognition, evaluation, and immediate care of athletic injuries
Rehabilitation and reconditioning of athletic injuries
Health care administration, education, and counseling
Ongoing educational opportunities for the athlete, coach, and parent regarding their role in injury prevention, treatment, and improvement of athletic performance.

Goals

To provide outreach athletic training coverage for high schools
To provide sports enhancement camps for athletic performance improvement
To provide no-cost Saturday morning acute injury clinic through the fall season
To provide job shadowing educational experiences to high school students through our rehabilitation clinic at the Pella Regional Health Center
To educate the staff and faculty of area schools as well as the general public on the importance of injury prevention and prompt injury assessment/treatment by a trained sports medicine professional
To educate the physicians in our clinic and surrounding clinics on the specialized skills of our athletic trainers and physical therapist regarding sports medicine care
To appropriately refer patients on to the proper medical care when an injury is out of our scope of practice
To constantly improve our staff through continuing education and professional membership via the National Athletic Trainers Association, American College of Sports Medicine, National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the American Physical Therapy Association.

Our sports medicine team is a combined effort of a sports fellowship trained orthopedic physician/surgeon, family practice physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapist, occupational therapist, certified strength and conditioning specialists and dietary services.

Dan Vande Lune, M.D.

Gene Schmitz, PT, ATC, MS, CSCS

ATC/PT

The Pella Regional Sports Medicine Team Our sports medicine team is a combined effort of a sports fellowship trained orthopaedic physician/surgeon, family practice physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapist, occupational therapist, and dietary services.

What is an Athletic Trainer? (ATC)

In 1990, the American Medical Association recognized athletic training as an allied health professional. An athletic trainer will receive an undergraduate and/or graduate degree in athletic training.

An accredited entry-level education program includes formal instruction in the subject matters area:

Athletic injury/illness prevention and evaluation
First aid and emergency care
Therapeutic modalities and exercise
Athletic training program administration
Human anatomy and physiology
Exercise physiology
Kinesiology/biomechanics
Nutrition
Psychology
Personal and community health
Instructional methods
Completion of 800 to 1500 hours of athletic training experience supervised by a certified athletic trainer

Certifying athletic trainers ensures high standards of professional practice. Certification by the NATA Board of Certification (NATABOC) is considered the entry-level credential.

To be eligible to sit for the certification examination, candidates must:

Graduate from an accredited curriculum program, or

After interested candidates have met the curriculum, they must then pass a three-part certification exam administered by the NATABOC. After passing the examination, athletic trainers are then certified. Certified athletic trainers retain their certification as long as they meet the NATABOC continuing education requirements. Certified athletic trainers are required to take 80 hours of continuing education every three years.

In addition to certification, athletic trainers in Iowa are encouraged to meet state licensing and regulation requirements. (This current recommendation will soon become state law.)

What is a Physical Therapist? (PT)

Physical therapists are concerned with the prevention, evaluation, and treatment of disability resulting from injury, illness, developmental disabilities, or the aging process.

Examples of patients treated by physical therapists include newborn babies with birth defects, children with muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy, stroke and heart attack victims, injured athletes, amputees, paraplegics, people with impaired lung or heart capacity, and those in pain from arthritis, nerve injuries, bone fractures, and burns.

A physical therapist must graduate from an undergraduate degree, take graduate record exams (GRE), and then be accepted to an accredited Master's degree in a Physical Therapy program. The program lasts for 2.5 to 3 years and focuses on anatomy and injury assessment, injury prevention, and all forms of rehabilitation from strokes to orthopedic injuries. After completing the formal academic training and clinical rotations the PT must pass state board exams with licenses him/her to practice in their state. Continuing education is also important to maintain one's license.

Student Athlete Services

Pella Regional Sports Medicine provides services to a number of area schools and colleges.

Schools to whom we currently provide services include:

Pella High School
PCM (Prairie City-Monroe) High School
Lynnville-Sully High School

For these schools we provide event coverage as well as clinics at the school. PRHC provides injury assessment, acute and chronic injury care, and rehabilitation for our school athletes.

We are also proactive in helping these schools out with any type of strength and conditioning. Providing warm-ups, stretching, strength training, plyometrics and speed workouts.

Past schools we have also served include:

Pekin High School
Oskaloosa High School
Montezuma High School
North Mahaska High School
Pleasantville High School

GolfPLUS

To consistently play better golf, it's important that you be physcally able to execute a proper golf swing time after time.

To accomplish this, you must achieve true "body balance". This means your posture, balance, flexibility, strength, power, control and endurance must all work together to sweing properly every time.

It is undoubtedly true that golf instruction from qualified teachers and the latest, properly fit equipment, can help to improve your game. But to get maximim results from your swing and to take full advantage of lessons and equipment, you must be physically conditioned.

That's the objective of the GolfPLUS program presented here. The history of this program can be traced back to the early 1980's when scientific studies were conducted to precisely measure muscle activity during the golf swing. This reasearch identified which muscles were the most involved in the swing, how they worked together and helped to determine why injuries sometimes occur.

From 1984 to 1986, Paul Callaway as the director of Physical Therapy for the PGA Tour. During this time, Paul assisted with clinical reasearch to support the scientific studies. He evaluated how proper, physical conditioning improved performance and minimized injuries among the world's most active and skilled golfers.

Based on this experience, Paul created a golf-specific, fitness training and theraputic treatment program to reduce injuries and improve swing performance.

And now, professional golf instructors and their students alike, are crediting this program as the "missing ingredient" toward evalating and improving the physical characteristics necessary to reduce injuries and acheive the fastest, safest, most effective swing changes they've ever experienced.

Comprehensive Evaluation

The GolfPLUS program begins with a comprehensive evaluation. The evaluation is performed by one of the liscensed professionals trained by Paul Callaway, PT.

Your assigned professional clinician will screen any pain you may be having, diagnose the dysfuntion leading to your pain and objectively measure the extent to which your physical characteristics may be contributing or inhibiting your golf swing.

In addition, key physical elements of your swing and "on-the-course" performance characteristics will be studied, such as:

Posture
Balance
Flexibility
Strength
Conditioning Level
Computerized Swing Analysis
Club Head Speed
Average Driving Distance, etc.

The results of the evaluation will allow you and your professional staff memeber to:

Develop a treatment and/or training program to fit your individual needs
Establish a present status baseline to measure future improvement as you advance through the program
Indentify the risk of potential injury the could result from continuing your current swing patterns
Set short and long-term physical and performance goals to help solidify your commitment to your customized program

Customized Program Design

Each GolfPLUS program is fully customized in order to maximally strengthen and improve the pyhsical characteristics necessary to consistently swing a golf club properly.

The pace and scope of your individualized program will take into account the physical needs and performance goals determined in your evaluation, the time frame you've established to reach your goals, and the amount of time your daily schedule permits you to regularly devote to a program.

Once determined, the structure of your customized GolfPLUS program will follow a release, re-educate and rebuilding process.

First, when pain is present, sophisticated treatment instruments are available to help accelerate tissue repair and reduce painful inflammation in your muscles and joints that may hinder or prevent your ability to play golf.

Then, revolutionary theraputic stretching techniques wiol be provided that are intended to release your body's connective tissue tightness presently restricting your posture, flexibility and swing.

As pain is eliminated and tightness released, the next step is to re-educate your body.

You will be instructed how to assume better posture and balance when you address ball and to replace bad swing habits caused by former limiting physical characteristics.

As the release and re-education phases of your program begin to improve your posture, flexibility, balance and swing motions, you will also be taught how to rebuild the muscles necessary to strengthen, stabilize and condition your body.

Added strength, stability and conditioning will help support your new and improved body structure and will maximize your golf swing performance potential.

Precise, golf-specific, rebuilding exercises will promote:

Extra Distance
Improved Accuracy
Greater Consistency
Reduced Fatigue
Fewer Injuries

Conclusions

Ultimately, this release, re-educate and rebuilding process will help you safely and effeciently reach your maximum physical potential and performance goals.

Furthermore, when all phases of your GolfPLUS program are properly maintained, you will be able to prevent your old posture and swing habits from rapidly returning, therefore minimizing your previous levels of inconsistent play and injury.

SportsPLUS

Gain a new perspective on sports performance. Get optimum results by training the way the best athletes in the world train. Use the latest techniques tested on the fields, courts, and tracks of amateur and professional competition nationally and internationally. Our programs have been developed through years of practical experience in conjunction with experts from around the United States. No one else can offer this expertise in a program that works.

SPORTSPLUS Training Systems is your best investment towards improving your athletic potential.

You will join a select group of outstanding athletes and teams that have improved their athletic performance through our intense training programs. Our training programs are guaranteed to:

Improve Speed and Power
Develop First Step Quickness
Improve Dynamic Balance
Enhance Ability to Move Laterally and Change Direction
Use Plyometrics to Improve Jumping Ability and Total Body Explosiveness
Develop Functional Strength Through Specially Designed, Sport-Specific, Strength Training Programs

Program Content

The world of sports conditioning is changing rapidly. Stay on the cutting edge by joining us in a unique, comprehensive training experience. These programs are designed by analysis of the demands of the sport, the demands of the position or event, and most importantly, the qualities of the individual athlete. Programs are based on scientific laws, functional movements, and practical experience which are specifically designed to develop the complete athlete. Our programs are based on the following principles:

Postural Alignment and Dynamic Balance are the Foundation of all Training
Train Movements, Not Muscles
Train Core Strength Before Extremity Strength
Train Body Weight Before External Resistance
Train Speed Before Speed Endurance

Program Goals

1. Help athletes achieve their fullest potential within all sports they participate.
2. Injury prevention through proper training techniques.
3. Provide information and skills that can be used year-round.

SportsPLUS Programs Speed Wins/Explosive Power

Speed Wins and Explosive Power are a combined 2 ½-3 hour class that meets 4 days a week for 6 weeks each summer.

Speed Wins improves overall speed and quickness. Speed Wins involves sport-specific speed, first step quickness, straight-ahead speed and lateral speed/agility. This program incorporates various drills such as resistance towing, hill sprints, over speed training, bounding, and speed ladder work to name a few.

Explosive Power is a complete program that involves strength training and total body power. Explosive Power incorporates olympic lifts, traditional lifts, medicine ball training, and explosive plyometric training.

Program Testimonials

"Being on a strict program really helped me keep up my training in the off season. I feel this program really helped me get passed my back injury. Now I can go and play 100%."
- Jessica Van Ee, Pella Christian

"This program helped me become quicker, faster, and stronger. I feel I have dramatically changed into a better athlete due to this program. I would recommend it to anyone who wants the edge over their competition."
- Aaron Bonnema, Pella High

"SportsPLUS is without a doubt the best camp I've been to. I know I will be benefitting from this for quite some time."
- David Gutierrez, Pella High

"SportsPLUS proved to be definitely beneficial thoughout the sports I participated in this last school year. I felt confident, toned, and ready to take on the most challenging practices. I would recommend it to those willing to put forth the effort who are not afraid to work for future success."
- Brittnay Bailey, Oskaloosa High

"This is the best thing that I could have ever done to increase my speed and strength in the off season. The expert advice that the instructors gave was unbelievable. I learned many new ways to increase my speed with different ways to train."
- Austin Bonnema, Pella High

General Infomation

Low athlete to staff ratio
Each participant receives a T-shirt and water bottle with registration
Athletes will be given a booklet outlining daily activities so they can chart their own progress
Participants will have the opportunity to work with some of the best athletes in the area

Staff

Our programs are staffed by highly trained sports medicine professionals, which consists of Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists, and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. We receive ongoing training through the National Athletic Trainers Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. We are dedicated to helping athletes reach their highest potential within their respective sports.

SPORTSPLUS TRAINING SYSTEMS: Performance Enhancement Programs

To register or for more information call 641-628-6623 or 1-888-628-3150 (ext. 6623) or e-mail us.

Specialty Services

Free injury evaluations for High School, College, and City Recreational Athletes M-F 7:00 - 4:30 (By Appointment)

KT 1000 ACL/PCL Testing
The KT 1000 is an objective measurement tool used to assess motion in the sagital plane of the tibia relative to the femur, aiding in the assessment of ACL/PCL integrity.

Functional ACL testing

Functional/Sport Specific rehabilitation

Sport Enhancement/Injury Prevention Camps

Body Composition Testing

Program development for strength training and speed training

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