11th Annual PFCS Continuing Educational Seminar

Amanda Carlson-Phillips is a leader on the EXOS Performance Innovation Team and is committed to helping all EXOS clientele achieve their performance potential through the EXOS integrated methodology of Mindset, Nutrition, Movement and Recovery. Over the past 13 years she has worked with professional sports teams, elite athletes, military operators and forward thinking organizations to optimize their human performance systems. Carlson-Phillips speaks nationally about the importance of improving nutrition for performance and overall health. She also contributes to many sports- and fitness-based publications, has edited various sports nutrition books and educational texts, and is on the Board of Directors for the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association. Carlson-Phillips also coordinates the company’s performance research team, undertaking both case studies and peer-reviewed research to help EXOS stay on the on the cutting-edge of both health and performance.

Amanda Carlson-Phillips will provide participants with up to date performance nutrition research and examples of practical application to support their needs to provide holisitic care to athletes.

Participants will:

• Become familiar with the general nutritional considerations and needs for the football player
• Gain perspective on ways to frame nutritional recommendations to the players they work with
• Understand how to consider performance data as a part of nutritional recommendations
• Be exposed to common nutritional deficiencies seen in elite football athletes and the rules and regulations regarding supplementation in the NFL
• Be aware of late breaking trends in nutrition and performance

Spencer Baron, DC, DACBSP

Current Concepts in Concussion: What EVERY Chiropractor Can Do in 2017

Dr. Spencer Baron is a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians. He delights in having been the Team Chiropractic Physician for the NFL’s, Miami Dolphins (19 seasons). He was also the Chiropractor for MLB’s, Miami Marlins and NHL’s Florida Panther’s. Additionally, he’s treated the Major League Baseball’s, New York Mets, the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies.

Dr. Baron was the first chiropractor in South Florida to be provided hospital staff privileges. He was appointed staff Chiropractic Physician to Doctor’s Hospital of Hollywood, 1992, and was then named Department Head of the Golden Glades Regional Medical Center’s Division of Chiropractic Services (1994 to 1996).

Dr. Baron’s completed his book, “Secrets of the Game – What superstar athletes can teach you about health, peak performance and getting results.”

Despite the increased global attention towards Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), there is still an
absence of a clearly defined protocol that is scientifically accepted as the standard for
concussion diagnosis and treatment. Even as the development and application of new
technology gains popularity in the scientific community, interpretation of the resulting data
remains uncertain and fraught with new challenges.

Recognizing the potential benefits in new, clinically recognized, preventative, diagnostic, and
therapeutic approaches, this program will strive to uncover the relevance of new findings and its
application in the Chiropractic paradigm.

Dan McClure, DC, CCSP, CCEP

Adjusting in the Training Room

Dr. Dan McClure combines a life-long love of athletics with his chosen profession for a natural specialization in chiropractic sports medicine. He is a former high school and college athlete who first became interested in chiropractic when it offered him great relief for a low back injury sustained during college football.

Following his graduation from Palmer College of Chiropractic he began volunteering as a team physician for local high school football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, track, and baseball. The valuable experience gained in working with these athletes, plus completion of his C.C.S.P. degree, led to his selection for the interdisciplinary sports medicine team at the US Olympic Training Center in 1989. His USOC association continued through the 1990 Olympic Sports Festival and the 1991 Pan American Games.

Due to his successful treatment of divers’ wrist injuries at those USOC events, he was invited to join the Sports Medicine staff of US Diving in 1991. Since then, he has worked with elite divers at training camps, Indoor and Outdoor National Championships, Olympic Trials, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. McClure is a nationally and internationally renowned expert and lecturer on extremity injuries and manipulation. His extremity experience ranges over 25 years. Dr. McClure’s state of the art techniques are constantly being refined, so you will learn time proven techniques as well as cutting edge techniques in the process of development. This level of commitment and experience, along with his passion for excellence in applying chiropractic extremity techniques is what makes him the best in his field.

Dr. McClure will cover several of the most common injured areas during game time in athletes. This will include lecture of the mechanisms of injury and a detailed anatomy review of the injury complex. The bulk of the presentation will occur in a “Hands on” format including the evaluation of the injury complex and the specific Chiropractic correction of the joints involved. The how’s and when’s to adjusted on the field will be addressed. Also the Trainer/Physician treatment progression will be discussed. A detailed treatment plan including treatment time lines for each injury will be discussed as well as how and when to refer. Each injury will be broken down into an easy to understand presentation and the corrections will be in a logical progression. The attending DC’s and students will be able to utilize these techniques immediately on the field with great success.

Landon Christy. DC, CCSP

Functional Evaluation and Assessment of Lower Extremity Soft Tissue injuries in Football

Dr. Landon Christy is a founding doctor of Airrosti Rehab Centers where he began his chiropractic career in 2006. A graduate of Parker College, he also went on to become a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner in 2011. Dr. Christy has been on the sideline in some capacity since 1995, serving his high school, college and currently as a Team Chiropractor for Denton Guyer HS, The University of North Texas, Texas Women’s University, and the Dallas Cowboys.

This course will cover sports injuries related to altered biomechanics of the lower extremity. At the completion of this seminar, the attendee will better understand the biomechanics of the lower extremity and how it contributes to sports injuries.

Steven Capobianco, DC, MA, DACRB, CCSP

Football Specific Kinesiology Taping

Dr. Steven Capobianco is a practicing sports D.C. currently holding a Diplomate in Rehab from the ACA, in addition he is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, and a Performance
Enhancement Specialists from the NASM. He recently launched a sports specific rehab and performance institute called ProjectMOVE in Denver Colorado that focuses on identifying motor control dysfunction in an attempt to enhance human performance from the professional athlete to weekend warrior. He authored the “Fascial Movement Taping” manual and lectures globally on human movement and functional taping methodology.

This course introduces the concept of movement therapy and enhancement via functional taping methods. It includes a review of the current literature supporting the theory of kinesiology taping for the purposes of rehabilitation, edema/swelling, acute trauma and post-surgical management.

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