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2018 Emerald City Volleyball Tournament

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2018 marked the 32nd year of the Emerald City Classic volleyball tournament at the University of Washington. The Bastyr Sports Medicine Club once again returned for the 9th consecutive year to provide voluntary sports medicine and first aid care to over 2000 athletes. Teams from all over the United States and Canada were invited to compete against each other in the three-day tournament.

 

Lead by Integrative Medicine Group medical director Dr. Masahiro Takakura ND, DC, LAc, and supervising physicians Dr. Calvin Kwan ND, Dr. Grace Chang ND, LAc, Dr. Thien Nguyen ND, LAc, CKTI, Dr. Tom Yang ND, LAc, Dr. Darci Davis ND, and Dr. Anh Ngoc Le ND, LAc, the BSMC club members provided hands on treatment for a wide range of conditions, which included ankle injuries, knee pain, bruises, shoulder pain/injuries, wrist and finger injuries. The team of Naturopathic medical students and doctors also evaluated and referred athletes for possible concussions.

 

Organized and led by the BSMC leadership team, club members were able to utilize various physical medicine skills to provide care for the athletes who played multiple games throughout the weekend. The BSMC club members spent months planning, training, and prepping for the big event. Students worked through physical assessments, ruling out injuries and emergency cases, and utilized a wide variety of modalities such as athletic and Kinesio taping, soft tissue mobilization, myofascial release, ice therapy, craniosacral therapy, cupping, friction rubs, muscle energy stretching, naturopathic joint manipulations, and referral to acupuncture to help treat the athletes. In addition to practicing these modalities, the students refined their history taking, physical/orthopedic examination skills, and neurological assessment of concussions whilst working as a team to provide effective and efficient medical care.

 

BSMC also had the opportunity to work alongside the Bastyr TCM Sports Medicine club, supervised by Dr. Grace Chang ND, LAc, Dr. Tom Yang ND, LAc, and Dr. Anh Ngoc Le ND, LAc, providing traditional Chinese medicine to the players. Overall, everyone demonstrated professionalism and collaborated with each other to ensure the event ran smoothly and the athletes received the best care we could offer.

 

BSMC would like to extend a huge thank-you to all the supervising physicians and practitioners for taking time out of their busy schedules to provide an educational opportunity for the students to practice clinical skills in real life scenarios. Special thanks must also be given to Jim Clavadetscher, ECC event organizer, for again inviting us to attend the tournament, Kinesio for providing Kinesio tape and Blake Morgan from Integrative Therapeutics for providing information and samples to the parents and coaches. Once again, we are so grateful and look forward to participating in the ECC tournament next year!

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