Return to the "POINTER VIEW"January 18, 2002
Return to the "POINTER VIEW"
January 18, 2002
Four cited for research done in area of sports injuries
Story and photo by Jim Fox
Staff Writer
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| West Point orthopaedics specialists Lt. Col. Tommy DeBerardino (left), Col. John Uhorchak and Lt. Cols. Dean Taylor and Josef Moore observes Cadet 4th Class Russell Nelson’s range of motion during their post-operative rounds Jan. 11 at Keller. |
Last month recognition was bestowed upon three separate parts of the Keller Army Community Hospital rehabilitation services area.
A team headed by current Keller staff members Col. John M. Uhorchak, the Chief of the Department of Surgery, and Lt. Col. Dean Taylor, the Director of the Joint and Soft Tissue Trauma Fellowship, along with four others, were selected as recipients of the 2002 O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.
Their paper, titled: "Risk Factors Associated with Non-Contact ACL Injury: A Prospective Four-Year Evaluation of 859 West Point Cadets," followed the Class of 1999 from Beast in 1995 until graduation.
Uhorchak will present the paper to the AOSSM at their annual meeting June 30 in Orlando.
Lt. Col. Tommy DeBerardino, Keller’s newest orthopedic surgeon and the Chief of Orthopaedic surgery at KACH, was selected as one of the 2002 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine traveling fellows.
He will travel this spring in Europe from April 10 until May 5 visiting foreign sports medicine centers and will participate in scientific symposia with host physicians, view research facilities and surgical procedures and attend a national sports medicine meeting in the region they are visiting.
Fellows from North America annually alternate traveling to Europe or the Pacific Rim. In alternate years, fellows from the Pacific Rim or Europe travel to North America.
DeBerardino will travel to Norway, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France.
Air Force Maj. Randy A. Green, a graduate last month of the West Point Physical Therapy doctoral program, presented his research on manual therapy for ankle sprains at the Society of Military Othropaedic Surgeons.
His poster presentation won the Louise House Award for the Best Poster with Military Relevance at the annual Society conference.
Green just began a tour as the Officer in Charge of the Community Center Physical Therapy Clinic at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The recipients concurred that these honors and accolades further proved the credibility of the research being done at KACH and West Point by the Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy family there.
"The sports medicine fellowship and physical therapy residency are well known and well respected in the sports medicine and physical therapy academic world for their excellence," Col. Barbara Scherb, KACH commander said.
