Physical therapy finds

from Common Sense Volume 5 Issue 5 February 7, 2005

by Millard South Common Sense Newspaper

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Many athletes and students at Millard South have endured the pain of a knee injury that has put them out of competition for months. Now, with the help of the Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital Physical Therapy Center, there is a program that has spread out to MS by physical education teacher Phyllis Schroeder so the program can start to prevent serious knee and hip injuries from happening.

Schroeder learned about the program when she was at Physical Therapy last summer and decided to check it out to make it available to students here.

“As a teacher and coach I have seen many students and athletes suffer ACL and other serious knee injuries. We would much rather construct workOuts to prevent injury rather than ones to recover from them,” Schroeder said.

The training is called Sportsmetrics and it works on overall strengthening muscles and muscle balance in the knee joint and surrounding

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Common Sense Volume 5 Issue 5 February 7, 2005