Sports Medicine Community Outreach

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2014-05-01

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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement

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The OSU Sports Medicine Outreach Program brings sports medicine to the community. It is a multidisciplinary team of physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists, sport psychologists, nutritionists, sports performance coaches and other health professionals.

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IMPACT. 1: Over 5,000 local competitors and performers benefit from our on-site care provided to a wide variety of community partners, most notably Columbus City Schools. We promote overall health and well-being via educational programming on physical fitness, the treatment and prevention of injuries and related sports and exercise subject matter. -- 2. On-site care includes injury evaluation, injury treatment/management, injury prevention and sports performance. We foster the university's spirit of collaboration through student mentoring and teaching, as well as by inclusion of our resident physicians and sports medicine fellows.
OSU PARTNERS: OSU Sports Medicine; College of Medicine; Family Medicine; Orthopaedics; School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Internal Medicine; Physical Medicine; College of Nursing
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Ballet Met; Capital University; Columbus City Schools; Columbus State Community College; Granville High School; Ohio Machine; OSU Department of Dance; OSU Rugby; Pelotonia; Special Olympics
PRIMARY CONTACT: Chris Mizer (christopher.mizer@osumc.edu)

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Engaged Scholars, v. 2 (2014).

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/85144

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Engaged Scholars: Volume 2 (2014)