Ohio Department of Education Website for PASP

The 2014-15 Lake Health PASP provider number that you will need is: 2015-008463.  Please remember that this will not work for you unless you were in attendance at our program since we are required to report directly to the ODE who was in attendance at this course.

For reference:
The 2013-14 Lake Health PASP provider number is: 2014-008463
The 2012-13 Lake Health PASP provider number is: 2013-008463
The 2011-12 Lake Health PASP provider number is: 2012-008463


The link to the resources page is: http://bit.ly/y9LLNo

The link to the bibliography page that was handed out at this course is: http://bit.ly/1nZeSH1

The new concussions in youth sports law requires all coaches to attend an online course that converse the issues related to this injury. The Ohio Department of Health has all of this information linked on their website. The two courses are found at: www.nfhslearn.com and at www.cdc.gov.

Resources for High School Coaches

Below is a list of resources that high school coaches may find useful in planning their practices and other activities.  It is my hope that this page will be updated often and have new content added regularly.

I) Heat Illness

   A) This is a urine color chart excerpted from the NATA position statement on hydration in athletes.  This allows athletes to have a quick reference to know how hydrated they are. Here is a link to a PDF format of the urine chart.

   B) This is the temperature and humidity chart for determining the risk of heat illness in a given practice. Pictured is a temperature and humidity chart, a link to a colorized version of the temperature and humidity chart, and a third, colorized chart that has some additional information on it.  I leave all three up here since some people will want to print these graphics while others will keep them on their mobile devices, each with different screen resolutions.

   
C) Weight loss calculation charts and instructions

D) Coach Smart App by Vanderbilt Sports Medicine--Free (iOS, Android)

   E) OHSAA heat index guidelines for practices

II) Lightning Safety

   A) A sample lightning safety protocol sheet

   B) Coach Smart App by Vanderbilt Sports Medicine--Free (iOS, Android)

   C) Boltmeter by Allisonhouse LLC-- $1.99 (iOS)

D) Mobile Storm by Skywatcher-- (Android)

E) Weatherbug - (Spark) (iOS, Android)

III) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

   A) A TBI information sheet (Lake Health)

   B) TBI information Sheet (National Athletic Trainers Association)

   C) A list of TBI myth

   D) Concussion Recognition and Response App: Coach and Parent Version by PAR-- $3.99 (iOS, Android)

   E) Proper Football Helmet Fitting Guidelines:

      1) Riddell Football Helmets (PDF files are on the right and videos are lower on the page)

      2) Schutt Helmet Videos

         a) AIR-XP

         b) DNA Recruit

         c) Youth Ion 4D

      3) Generic Video

      4) USA Football Video (partnered with Riddell)

   F) ImPACT (Neurocognitive testing software purchased by Lake Health for its contract schools)

   G) www.theconcussionblog.com

   H) www.sportsconcussions.org TBI information

   I)  Nowinski, C. (2006). Head Games: Football'sConcussion Crisis from the NFL to Youth Leagues. Plymouth: Drummond Publishing Group.

   J) Carroll, L., & Rosner, D. (2011). The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic. Philadelphia: Simon & Schuster.

IV) Nutrition

   A) A general nutrition guidelines handout

   B) My Fitness Pal (www.myfitnesspal.com) --Free (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile)

   C) www.fda.gov (Federal Drug Administration)     

   D) http://www.ftc.gov (Federal Trade Commission)

   E) www.healthycompetition.org/hc/main.html (Blue Cross/Blue Shield)

   F) www.nal.usda.gov / http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic (United States Dept. of Agriculture)

V) Injury Treatment

   A) Information on the R.I.C.E. principle

   B) American Red Cross First Aid App--Free (iOS, Android)

VI) Record Keeping

   A) A sample emergency action plan

   B) First aid kit supply list (Football)- This list is broken down into "essential, recommended, and luxury" supplies that are commonly found in first aid kits.
   C) A sample lightning emergency action plan

VII) Infection Control

   A) MRSA information sheet

VIII) Drug and Supplement Assistance

   A) World Anti-Doping Agency App by WADA--Free (iOS, Android)

   B) www.wada-ama.org (World Anti-Doping Agency)

IX) Injury Prevention - Equipment Fitting

   A) Football shoulder pad fitting video

   B) Proper helmet fitting videos---See above in TBI resources (Section III)

   C) Soccer shin guard video

   D) Hockey Helmet

   E) Running Shoes (Runner's World Article)

X) Lake Health PASP Information

   A) Ohio Department of Education Information

   B) The bibliography handout from the lectures

   C) www.lakehealth.org  (Lake Health website)

XI) Miscellaneous Online Classes, Links, and Videos

   A) www.nfhslearn.org

     1) The National Federation of High Schools has a host of free classes that cover topics like concussions, heat acclimatization, and sportsmanship.

     2) The NFHS also has several courses for learning the techniques of coaching most common high school sports for a fee. $50-$75

   B) www.vimeo.com/nata1950 -- A host of videos sponsored by the National Athletic Trainers' Association on a wide range of topics.

   C) NATA recorded webinars -- Webinars designed for athletic trainers on a wide variety of sports medicine topics.

   D) My social bookmarking site -- My social bookmarking site where there are thousands of articles and videos tagged.

   E) www.glata.org (The Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association)

   F) www.nata.org (The National Athletic Trainers’ Association)

   G) www.medscape.com

   H) www.momsteam.com

   I) www.ncaa.com (The National Collegiate Athletic Association)

   J) www.nfhs.org (The National Federation of High Schools

   K) www.oata.org (The Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association)

   L) www.ohsaa.org (The Ohio High School Athletic Association)

   M) www.olympic.org  (The International Olympic Committee)

   N) www.webmd.com

  

Please note: If you have any other resources that you feel should be added to this list, think something is missing from it, or you find a dead/broken link, please leave a comment below so that I may address the issue.  This is not an exhaustive list and you may know of a resource that is even better than what is listed here. This also means that this is a dynamic blog post that is intended to change often and updated regularly.  I highly recommend that you check back often.

Final Forms

The new system for Perry's athletic department forms can be found at Perry Final Forms. All of the forms that your son or daughter will need for the upcoming school year, whether they are middle school or high school, can be found on this website. The only form that will require you to print it out is the physical form. The physical cannot be be done completely online since our families will be going to many different physicians to get this part completed. To attempt to do the physical online is impractical since every physicians office would also need their own identifying code to be able to sign the form. This would incur a great cost with programming and maintenance that neither the school district nor the company behind the online forms are willing to incur or pass on to parents.

We hope that you find the new forms easier to use and keep in mind that the athletics department is looking to be the test market for possibly doing this with all of our school forms for next year. This would cut down on the redundancy of forms and make your lives as parents, easier. If you have any comments on this system, please direct them to me or to the athletic department.

Physicals 2014-15

The OHSAA dropped another surprise on us for next year and we are scrambling to make sure it works well. This time, the OHSAA decided to move all the documentation of the pre participation physical evaluations (PPEs) online and to ditch the old paper form. What is different this time, is that they made these changes with the caveat that they are available this year, but not required until the 2015-16 school year. Right now, our athletic department is looking at the OHSAA system and their partnership with PrivIT (https://perrypirates-oh.e-ppe.com/index.jspa) and a few other competing options.  More information will be coming shortly, so stay tuned Perry and we will move on this as quickly as possible.

Simple Illness Prevention

As we come closer to the postseason tournaments, I would like to remind all of our athletes that we are also hitting the peak of cold and flu season. If you are around somebody who is dealing with these bugs, please make sure that you are using proper hand washing techniques frequently and practicing good hygiene. Also, please do not feel embarrassed to decline shaking hands or hugging others, especially if they are sick. Simply explaining that you are trying to be careful and remain healthy for the postseason will often alleviate any hard feeling that others will have. Finally, I recommend that each of you stops at Marc's or Walmart and invest in a small bottle of hand wash that you can attach to your bag and keep with you. USE the hand wash regularly when running to the bathroom to wash your hands is not feasible.

Finally getting back to more posting

This year, I will bring a different perspective to this blog in some of my posts. This past year, I returned to an activity that I enjoyed in high school, but got away from in the years since I graduated. I rediscovered how much I enjoyed running and how much of a release it is to be able to run each day.

The reason I will include this is because there is now a sports medicine angle to be examined. A week and a half ago, while in recovery from a hernia repair surgery, I coded. After a couple more incidents under surveillance, it was determined that I needed to have a pacemaker implanted because of a vasovagal response that caused a bradycardic episode and led to a transient AV node block. This caused me to lose consciousness. At forty years of age, this was a huge shock to me. And no, there is no prior history of cardiac issues in my family. (At least not until after the age of 60.)

So now I will have to rebuild my distance of running (once my cardiologist lets me start) back to my pre-surgical status of about a 10k/day. Since I will have been out for at least two weeks after the surgeries, it will be interesting to see where I am starting from again. I am hoping to make it at least two miles before I feel like dropping.

I plan on periodically posting some information on things go and I hope that this will lead to some learning experiences for us all. Who knows, we may have to deal with an athlete at some point in our lives with this same issue.