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PediaCast: Pediatric Podcasts for Parents

Sports Physicals - PediaCast 424

PediaCast: Pediatric Podcasts for Parents

Dr Mike

Pediatrician, Hospital, Immunization, Pediatric, Illness, Doctor, Family, Health, Science & Medicine, Pediatrics, Kids & Family, Parents, Kid, Children, Kids, Parent, Vaccine, Child, Wellness

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dr Jim MacDonald and Dr Peter Kriz visit the PediaCast Studio as we consider the pre-participation sports physical. What makes this visit different than a well-child exam? What are the important components and where should the exam takes place? Plus, we talk conditioning, injury rehabilitation, cardiac screening and concussions. We hope you can join us!

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0:00.0

This is PediCast.

0:20.7

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

0:24.6

And now, direct from the campus of Nationwide Children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

0:29.6

Hello everyone, and welcome.

0:31.6

Once again to Pediacast.

0:33.6

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

0:36.6

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital.

0:41.6

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

0:43.4

It is episode 424 for February 20th, 2019.

0:48.8

We're calling this one Sports Physicals.

0:52.1

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

0:56.5

We are returning our attention back to sports medicine this week as we consider the sports physical. And you may be asking

1:02.7

yourself, how in the world is he going to fill an entire program about sports physicals?

1:07.5

I mean, you go. They do the exam. They fill out the paperwork and you're good to go.

1:13.1

Unfortunately, that is exactly how the sports physical goes in many places. They're quick and easy.

1:19.4

You get the paper signed and that's it. However, if that has been your experience, your student athlete is getting short changed because there are many

1:30.4

important components of the sports physical, also known as the pre-participation exam.

1:37.4

And during the course of this program, we will be shortening that often to PPE.

1:42.1

You think, you know, just call to sports physical, but we're going to be

1:45.4

talking to a couple of sports medicine doctors, and they're used to calling it the pre-participation

1:49.5

exam, and then they shorten it to PPE, and it's just, that's just naturally what's going to come

1:54.4

out of their mouth. So we're all on the same page. P.P.E. is a pre-participation exam,

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