Sports Medicine also extends into the classroom for MID STATE. They were a major influence in establishing a graduate athletic training fellowship at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The program provides athletic trainers for the area while they earn advanced degrees from the Department of Health and Human Performance. At Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisisana, working with Dr. Carolyn Spears, MID STATE physicians guided the development of an undergraduate athletic training curriculum that was certified in 2003. In the fall of 2009 a Masters Degree program will accept its first applicants at Louisiana College. All physicians at MID STATE serve as clinical instructors for the Louisiana College trainers program.
Orthopaedic injuries always will be part of athletics and everyday life. Fortunately, the quality of medical treatment and the potential for recovery have never been better. Since the early 1990's when MID STATE became team doctors for Northwestern State University, more than 500 athletes have sustained an injury that required surgery - including several future professional players and over 99% of those athletes have returned to full athletic participation.
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