Injury Prevention for Runners Workshop

 

Attention Runners - Injury Prevention Workshop!  Join the Athletic Trainers from Sports Conditioning and Rehabiliation (SCAR) to learn how to keep your body strong and healthy.  Free and open to all!

OVERVIEW:

Please join us for this hands-on clinic on sports injury prevention presented by the Athletic Training Staff from Sports Conditioning and Rehabilitation (SCAR) in Orange.  The benefits of proper warm-up technique will be discussed, including SCAR’s functional strength & flexibility training methods to help athletes at any age or competitive level maximize their athletic potential and prevent injury.

 

 

 

TIME:

• 9:00 am Check-in -please arrive early to park and get settled
• 9:30 am Clinic Begins
• 10:30 am Clinic Ends

NOTE:

 

This clinic is outdoors in a park.  Dress appropriately for the weather and to participate in some dynamic warm-up and injury-prevention exercises.

AGENDA:

• Overview of SCAR and services offered
• Ways to prevent injuries through proper warm-up
• Hands-on instruction on functional strength and flexibility training (the “Dynamic warm-up”)
• Q&A

BRING:

• Mat and/or Towel for the strength and stretch
• Water to drink
• Running gear if you'd like to enjoy a run or walk into Peter's Canyon before or after the workshop.

PARKING:

There is limited parking at Cedar Grove, but a large lot at the Pioneer  Middle School just up the street.

2700 Pioneer Road, Tustin, CA 92782-3374

 

Sports Conditioning and Rehabilitation (SCAR) – the area’s leader in comprehensive, hands-on, results-oriented care.

SCAR was founded in 1973 and has become one of the most respected and innovative independently owned physical therapy practices in the Orange County-LA area. Whether you are injured or in chronic pain, physical therapy can relieve the pain, restore function and help you get back to your daily activities or sport.  Jim Herkimer, Owner/Executive Director of SCAR and his team deliver individualized one-on-one care to patients who have a variety of orthopedic, sports and work injuries.

SCAR also offers sport-specific performance programs for athletes of all ages (youth to elite adults). These include unique programs and memberships such as Sports Conditioning & Injury Prevention (SCIP), Functional Strength Training (FST), Video Run Analysis, and Sports Performance Training by nationally certified fitness and sports medicine professionals.