Top Health Care Experts Address Key Topics Relating to Physical Challenges Facing Athletes and Active People throughout Various Life Stages

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Dr. Wright is one of the featured speakers at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and National Association of Athletic Trainer's Madison Square Garden Media event on October 18th.

This dynamic and informative morning will include presentations that will address how to stay healthy, fit and injury-free throughout all stages of life.

"THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SENIOR ATHLETE," Dr. Wright's topic, will out line the major physiologic changes that occur with aging and how these translate into practical ways seniors must exercise differently than their younger counterparts. A comprehensive exercise regime, tailored to seniors, will be presented.   In addition, research data from the 2001 and 2005 Senior Olympics will be presented as examples of what seniors are capable of when they Age Actively.

Dr. Wright hopes to change the way we think about aging, prepare for aging and live our lives. 

See press release below:

MEDIA ALERT

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS (AAOS)

AND NATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINERS’ ASSOCIATION (NATA)

HOST “LIFE CYCLE OF THE ATHLETE” PRESS CONFERENCE ON

TUESDAY, OCT. 18, AT CLUB RESTAURANT IN

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK

(8:30 a.m. breakfast; 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. program)

Top Health Care Experts Address Key Topics Relating to Physical Challenges Facing Athletes and Active People throughout Various Life Stages

Champion Swimmer and Sports Journalist Diana Nyad to Provide Introductory Comments

NY Giants’ Rich Seubert and Shaun O’Hara, Former NBA Player Mel Davis and

Four-Time Olympic Luge Athlete Cameron Myler to Discuss

How They Have Experienced Injury and “Got  Back in the Game”

WHAT:

AAOS and NATA have organized an educational forum on the “Life Cycle of the Athlete.”  This dynamic and informative morning will include presentations that will address how to stay healthy, fit and injury-free throughout all stages of life.

WHEN:

Tuesday, Oct. 18

8:30 a.m. breakfast; 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. program

WHERE:

Club Restaurant at Madison Square Garden -- 34th and 7th Avenue.

TOPICS/SPEAKERS:

• “Youth & High School Sport Injuries: Can The Epidemic Be Stopped?”  Alvin H. Crawford, MD, director of pediatric orthopaedics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Jon Almquist, ATC, director of athletic training services, Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools.

• “The Gen X Woman: Strength, Stress & Self” -- Letha Y. “Etty” Griffin, MD, PhD, Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic in Atlanta, team physician for Georgia State University and orthopaedic consultant for the Atlanta Ballet and Elaine Winslow-Redmond, MS, ATC, head athletic trainer for the Radio City Rockettes and athletic trainer for Blue Man Group, New York City Knicks City Dancers, Tap Kids and New York City Dance Alliance.

• “Boomeritis and Beyond” -- Nicholas DiNubile, MD, clinical assistant professor of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, orthopaedic consultant for the Philadelphia 76ers and Pennsylvania Ballet and Marjorie J. Albohm, MS, ATC, director, orthopaedic research & business development, OrthoIndy, in Indianapolis and vice president of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

• “The Independence of the Active Senior” -- Vonda J. Wright, MD, MS, sports fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, clinical instructor in the department of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPMC) and research coordinator for the 2005 Senior Olympics and Kent Biggerstaff, ATC, athletic trainer and director of competition and venues with the Pittsburgh Local Organizing Committee, 2005 Senior Olympics.

For more information and/or to RSVP, please contact:

Robin Waxenberg at (212) 489-8006