Milken Community High School’s Sports Science and Medicine Department under the leadership of Ms. Summer Bloom ATC, EMT-B, physically prepares student athletes for the rigors of high school athletics. The Department enhances sport performance and minimizes the risk of injury by improving strength, power, speed, and conditioning through a sport-specific program administered in a safe, competitive environment.
This environment is created through the professional skills of caring sports medicine personnel. The staff provides a program for the prevention of athletic injuries and illnesses, and brings the knowledge and training needed to effect recovery and return to sport performance and healthy living.
Strength and Conditioning - Adam Deckel is the Head of Strength and Conditioning for the athletic department at Milken Community High School. He currently holds certifications from the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America as a fitness instructor, as well as the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer. He serves as a swim instructor as well as running cardio kickboxing, spinning and boot camp classes. He also teaches Krav Maga to the Stephen S. Wise Temple Religious School, a form of hand-to-hand combat developed in Israel.
The Strength and Conditioning program physically and mentally prepares athletes for the specific fitness demands of their sport. The program stimulates sport specific movement and athletic techniques, and helps student athletes achieve increased muscular strength, power, agility, proprioception, and benefit from injury prevention exercises.
It incorporates sports specific periodized training consisting of circuit training in the weight room, and plyometric, speed, and agility outdoor training. Strength and conditioning support during these supervised sessions maximizes gains in sport specific fitness in the safest and most efficient manner possible.
The strength training and medicine program has partnered up with Athletes' and Core Performance guiding both our Strength and Conditioning coaches as well as our athletes in improving skills in functional movement, ACL prevention, pillar strength, plyometrics, acceleration, absolute speed, multdirectional speed, strength and rotary power, energy system development, regeneration, and nutrition. We send teams and selected athletes over to their facility for specialized training sessions and incorporate it into our off season conditioning program.
Elements of the program include:
Sports Medicine - The sports medicine team consists of a certified Athletic Trainer, Summer Bloom, along with the consultation and supervision of Byron Patterson, M.D. The team provides a variety of services, including injury prevention, recognition, immediate care, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. When an athlete is injured, the sports medicine team collaborates with administrators, coaches, and parents in the education of the rehabilitation process while keeping them updated on the athlete’s progress.
Some examples of the services provided by the sports medicine team are:
analysis of injuries
demonstration of physical stretches and rehabilitative movements
taping, bandaging and stretching of athletes
use of modality machines such as ultrasound, stimulation, and hot packs
implementation of exercise and rehabilitation
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