Professional Education Symposium

OVERVIEW
Collegiate and professional soccer leagues rely upon their medical teams to treat soccer-related injuries and return injured players to the game. This activity will provide medical teams with guidance on the identification, prevention and treatment of injuries common to soccer athletes, such as spondylosis, spondylosysis, spondylolisthesis, and nerve entrapment syndromes, ACL and PCL injuries, concussion and cardiac abnormalities, which may prevent or delay players from entering or returning to the game. As a result of participating in this activity medical teams who treat collegiate and professional soccer players will work collaboratively to identify, prevent and rehabilitate injured players to get them back into the game.

OBJECTIVES
Hospital for Special Surgery activities are intended to improve the quality of patient care and safety. At the conclusion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Diagnose back injuries common to soccer athletes, such as spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, and nerve entrapment syndromes and implement treatment plans to return players to the game as appropriate.
• Implement the most current MLS protocols for treating soccer athletes with concussions.
• Screen soccer athletes at risk for ACL and PCL injuries.
• Diagnose and treat cardiac abnormalities in order to give clearance to soccer players.
• Weigh the option of surgery versus rehabilitation for PCL injures and the benefits and disadvantages of each option.