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12 Ways to Make an Impact: A Life Skills Guide

Great things come to those who make things happen. I firmly believe this. As I’ve grown through my career, I’ve learned that in order to truly make a positive impact on others one should have a goal-oriented and empathetic mindset, demonstrate a passion for helping, take initiative when appropriate, and think big. As David Schultz noted in …

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Positive Promotion of the Athletic Training Profession

How are you promoting yourself as a professional? If you’re an athletic trainer, how are you promoting our profession?  It’s time for another guest blog – Allan Parsells, MS, ATC. Allan is the Head Athletic Trainer at Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, New Jersey, co-owner of Premier Sports Medicine, and former Public Relations Chairman for …

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Improve your process with a Lean Approach to Removing Waste

Do you pursue mastery of the services you provide? As sports medicine and physical performance professionals, we are always told to “continue our learning” of practical knowledge. Our continuing education classes are typically geared toward learning or reviewing new exercises, treatment approaches, and assessment/evaluation skills. Ask yourself this: “When is the last time I reviewed …

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Does Corrective Exercise belong in the fitness world? YES!

This week we have another guest blog by my brother from another mother, Jeff Buxton, MS, NASM-PES, FMS, ACE-CPT.  Knowing Jeff since 2002 from our days at PSU, he is a highly effective fitness and wellness professional, an emotionally intelligent leader, and an insightful resource for all health and wellness professionals he collaborates with. With …

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Identifying your professional philosophy and personal mission statement

Time to get reflective… It was the fall of 2007 when I first took the time to reflect and develop a list of personal philosophy statements and a personal mission statement. This was prompted by the Seminar in Humanistic/Multicutural Education course I was taking as part of my graduate coursework at SUNY New Paltz. As …

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