HPER
2009 News
The Sindecuse Health Center held a grand opening Sept. 29 for its satellite Sports Medicine Clinic in the Student Recreation Center. Faculty and staff members may use the facility for physical therapy and athletic training services by appointment. Call (269) 387-3248. Among those helping to stage the event were Ashley Thrasher, standing, and Marisa Brouse, reclining. The two are Sports Medicine Clinic graduate assistants and certified athletic trainers.
Drs. Michael Miller, Timothy Michael, and Robert Bensley along with Dr. Stephen Magura of the Evaluation Center recently received a $506,302 grant from the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association. The three year project is designed to study the influence of four refresher interventions on the retention of knowledge and skills to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as, to determine whether perceived barriers and confidence in performing CPR are affected. This study will include Western Michigan University, The University of Utah and Broekema and Associates of Kalamazoo County. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Miller.
Dr. Yuanlong Liu, professor, recently received two awards:
- The Measurement and Evaluation Council of American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation awarded Dr. Liu for hiscontribution to the journal "Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science". Dr. Yuanlong Liu finished his three-yearterm as the MPEES Editor-in-Chief and is now serving as the section editor for exercise science (e.g., biomechanics, sport physiology and sports medicine). Dr. Liu worked very hard to promote the quality of the journal which is now a profitable and internationally recognized research journal.
- Dr. Liu also received the 2009 professional service award from the International Chinese Society of Physical Activities and Health. Dr. Liu, a well known scholar in the field of measurement and evaluation, served as an executive board member for the society from 2006-08. He is the one of the founding members of ICSPA which has professional members in North America and Asia. ICSPA played an important role in reviewing scientific submissions for the 2008 Olympic Science Conference and also serves as a bridge connecting physical activity and health professionals from different cultures around the world.
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Cailey Servais, athletic training graduate assistant, works with a USTA Boys Championship tennis player at the Kalamazoo College tennis courts, August 7-16.
Education and Recreation participated in the second annual WMU Day at the Capitol featuring dozens of WMU programs and projects.
Congratulations to senior Alysha Bartz honored as a 2009 Presidential Scholar, the highest academic award that WMU can bestow to an undergraduate. Alysha was selected by faculty members as the most outstanding senior in the program. Selection is based on the students' general academic excellence, academic and/or artistic excellence in their majors, and intellectual and/or artistic promise.
The research of Jessica Groth, alumna, is featured in The Times Online in "How healthy is your fitness instructor?"
Eta Sigma Gamma–Gamma Mu is one of 84 active and self-regulating collegiate chapters of the health education honorary across the United States. Following a series of focus groups conducted among students, this chapter received a grant from Prevention Networks of Lansing, Michigan for the Western Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention (WASAP) Project. During the first year, the project established an advisory board which brought together major community/university stakeholders to form a coalition against underage and binge drinking at WMU.
WASAP provided alcohol use and abuse prevention education designed to change social norms for the use of alcohol on campus. A shift in attitude towards having fun was designed around the provision of alcohol-free Battle of the Bands (called WASAP-BOB) in the fall. Alcohol use education sessions (targeting student groups) and a letter writing campaign were designed and implemented. Compliance checks with Michigan laws on alcohol retailing are planned in cooperation with community groups in Kalamazoo.
In a special recognition ceremony in Lansing on April 30 WASAP was given a model project award for conducting the Model Substance Abuse Prevention Project.
For further information, contact Dr. Amos Aduroja, (269) 387-2695.
Starting Fall 2009, the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation will offer a hybrid online program for the master’s degree and state approval in Special (Adapted) Physical Education. A master’s degree requires a total of 36 credit hours of coursework, including up to 27 online hours and at least 9 traditional face-to-face hours. A state approval requires a total of 22 credit hours of coursework, including up to 13 online hours and at least 9 traditional face-to-face hours. Non-resident and resident tuition is the same. For more information please visit the EUP website or email .
Dr. Jody Brylinsky, professor of sports studies, has assumed the position of Field Editor for the Journal of Coaching Education, a publication of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education and the National Council for Coach Education. This publication is a professional, peer-reviewed, electronic journal that provides a forum for coaching education professionals addressing current coaching topics through research-based articles. Issues covered in this unique journal include coaching pedagogy, strength and conditioning, tactics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and management.
Presentations by Professional-level Athletic Training Students
On April 20 students performed oral and demonstrative
presentations on assigned injuries that they researched. The students
constructed rehabilitation protocols in order to address the
areas
of: Mechanism of Injury; Injury Signs and Symptoms; Phases of
Healing; Indications and Contraindications of Care;
Rehabilitation Techniques and Practice; Return to Play/Activity;
Rehabilitation Analysis; and Rehabilitation Secrets.
Osteitis Pubis in a Soccer Player - Melissa Camhi
and
Jennifer Spytek
Chondromalacia Patella in a Softball/Baseball
Catcher - Ashlee Hacker and Stephanie Hollander
Third Degree Shoulder Separation/AC of a Hockey
Player - Andrew Bliz and Bradley Toepper
SI dysfunction in a Performance
Artist/Dancer - Marianne Bosen and Susie Cook
Syndysmotic Ankle Sprain/High Ankle Sprain in a
Basketball Player - Carley Poulin and Danielle Kaye
Be a “Fan of Respect” with
WMU End the “R” Word Day,
was held on March 24.
The “R” Word Campaign is a grass roots effort to raise awareness that people with intellectual disabilities and their families are offended by the use of the words “retard” or “retarded”. This national awareness day is designed to educate and inform the public that while mental retardation is not a bad word, when it’s used to describe someone or something negative it becomes another thoughtless hurtful word. People with mental retardation are not bad, their condition is not bad, the prejudice and discrimination to people with mental retardation is bad…and wrong.
Students were invited to join students from HPER, WMU student athletes and Special Olympics Michigan Area 16 athletes and family members, educate others about the impact of thoughtless language.
The “R” Word Campaign asks everyone to stop and think before using the word ‘retard’.