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Podcast: Sports Medicine Broadcast
Episode: Combat Sports Medicine
Description: Combat Sports Medicine seems like an extreme environment to practice Athletic Training. Dr. Ethan Kreiswirth created Blackbelt Sports Medicine to provide Athletic Trainer care for combat sports athletes.
You are always posting gnarly pictures and videos on IG. What gives you pause or catches you off guard?
As an Athletic Trainer, I started covering tournaments around 1997.
Personal experience in the sport helps me understand the types of injuries that occur.
Tournaments now are 40 mats over 6 days
Dislocations, unconscious used to give me pause.
Now it is...