kin newsletter spring 2015

Spring 2015 Volume 5, Issue 2

KIN INSIDER Paul Resnick, Editor

Nelson Mandela once said, “Sport has the power to change the world.”

As a professor in the Sports Administration program, I constantly remind my students of the power they will have in their careers to positively shape the world.

Along with teaching at the University of Miami, I cover sports for a number of outlets, including CNBC and The Huffington Post. Through these roles, in July 2014 I met David Nelson, then a New York Jets player who had just started an orphanage. Needless to say, David’s story was a story unlike any I had ever heard or told.

Today, I am a Community Champion for David’s organization, I’m Me. I’m Me is focused on ending the orphan crisis in Haiti.

There are over 500,000 orphans in Haiti. Most are “poverty orphans”—children whose biological parents are still living, but because of their deep poverty, are unable to take care of them.

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Professor Alicia Jessop & I’m Me Community Champions

Faculty Spotlight: Making a Difference

Professor Alicia Jessop, Assistant Professor

HIGHLIGHTS INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 3 & 8 Athletic Training 7 Strength & Conditioning10 & 11 KIN Research


Since July 2014, I’ve traveled to Haiti twice. I’ve held babies in the darkest of orphanages that were starving to death. I’ve watched people who were missing limbs because of the 2010 earthquake. They were having to push their way through the world’s largest per capita slum begging for food and water. I’ve stood on a mountaintop and watched as children without shoes on their feet played soccer down below in dirt.

As I see these heartbreaking things, I’m reminded of just how quickly they can change. I know this, because I look at the 11 children I’m Me took in. When our children came home, they were all on the brink of death. Today, they are happy, healthy, wild, funny children, who for the first time are receiving an education.

While our approach to ending the orphan cycle is multi-faceted, what I love the most about it is that a large portion of it revolves around sports.

In January 2015, we launched Haiti’s first-ever fine arts after school program. Strategically located in one of Haiti’s poorest villages, on Monday through Friday, over 200 children come to learn to paint, sing and dance, and be taught how to play basketball and soccer. For many, inside of the fine arts program’s doors is the first time that they’ve been encouraged to dream.

We currently are engaged in fundraising for a $3 million stadium facility, which will be the first of its kind in Haiti. Our backers, (including Tom Brady and Tim Tebow), are putting our money where our mouths are and investing in this mission, because we believe that sports can change the world.

Haiti is less than a two-hour flight from Miami. Yet, it is worlds away. In July 2014, the mission for my life became clear: To utilize sports to give the Haitian people an opportunity to rebuild their country and live out their lives true purposes.

To learn more about I’m Me, you can visit imme.org or email me at [email protected].

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Faculty Spotlight (cont.)


This past February, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) in conjunction with the Commission on Accreditation in Athletic Training Education (CAATE) hosted the Athletic Trainer’s Educators Conference in Dallas, Texas. The ATEC Conference, which is held every other year, brings together leaders from across the country in Athletic Training education programs. Among the attendees were the faculty from the University of Miami’s Athletic Training program. Dr. Kysha Harriell Program Director) and Justin Tatman (Clinical Education Coordinator) both attended the ATEC, which was the largest conference of its kind, to date. Dr. Harriell, who has presented at previous ATEC meetings, continued collaboration with the CAATE executive board, while engaging with various program directors from across the region and nation. Mr. Tatman completed in depth sessions to expand the University of Miami’s clinical education network, while exploring ideas from some of the leading educators in the profession. Athletic Training as an educational platform is going through a significant time period, and the faculty from the KIN department here at the University continue to be on the forefront of that transition. The University of Miami will be one of the first schools to add national certifications known as “Master Preceptor” to their clinical site preceptors, as well as continuing education opportunities in evidence based practice. Overall, the faculty has a terrific experience and returned to campus with an obvious sense of excitement about the future of athletic training education at the University of Miami.

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Athletic Training Faculty Attend Bi-Annual Educators Conference in Dallas

Mr. Tatman (far left) and Dr. Harriell (third from right) with fellow educators from the state of Florida at the 2015 ATEC in Dallas, including UM alumni (Exercise

Physiology Ph.D.) Jennifer Doherty-Restrepo (middle).

UM Athletic Training alumni Garrick Edwards wins the Gatorade Secondary School Athletic Trainer Award! This award is given to the most outstanding high school Athletic Training in the entire Southeastern

Region of the US.


Richard Campbell, a graduating senior in the Department of Neuroscience, presented a research abstract for a project he completed in collaboration with Dr. Chris Kuenze and Dr. Moataz Eltoukhy. The project titled “Biomechanical Lower Extremity Assessment in Division I Basketball Players: A Novel Application of the Microsoft Kinect ® Camera System” investigated differences in movement patterns between male and female basketball players using video game motion capture technology. Differences in knee and hip movement patterns during sport-based tasks such as jump landing and hopping are thought to have significant implications for the risk of traumatic knee injury. Richard’s goal was to develop simple and cost effective tools to identify athletes at high risk of injury which may enable preventative care to occur prior to a traumatic knee injury. This research took place during the summer of 2014 as a part of the undergraduate honors summer research program with the help of the Men’s and Women’s basketball teams here at UM. Throughout the Fall and Spring semesters, several new projects in the Max Orovitz Sports Medicine and Motion Analysis Laboratory have begun using this technology; the results of which will be submitted for publication and national presentation in the upcoming months.

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Presentation at the Undergraduate Research, Creativity and Innovation Forum


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KIN Project TREES gets local coverage in Sun-Sentinel

!


The Global Sport Business Association (GSBA) successfully completed its third annual conference during this year’s spring semester. The international conference, which set sail aboard Royal Caribbean’s “Majesty of the Seas,” was held over four days and three nights with stops in Coco/Little Stirrup Cay and Nassau. As the mission of the Association is to provide an outlet to showcase sport scholarship from a global business perspective and issues related to minority leadership in sport. This year’s conference featured presentations that advanced the literature in these areas and shed some new light on the direction of sport management moving forward.

Since its inception back in 2013, conference attendees have nearly tripled in size and abstract submissions and presentations have continued to increase. This year, there were more than 90 attendees and over 40 presentations. Scholarly works presented at the conference expand the globe that included authors from Asia, Europe, Australia, South America, and North America. Additionally, current master’s students enrolled in the University of Miami’s Sport Administration program presented research on various topics that ranged from gender and sport media coverage to promotional activities in sport.

In the Association’s commitment to advancing and supporting scholarship in the area of sport management, two doctoral students ($500) and two junior faculty members ($800) were awarded grants at the conference for their work presented and to support future scholarly endeavors. Dr. Windy Dees has assumed the role of Executive Editor for the Global Sport Business Association Journal. Next year’s conference is scheduled for February 19th-22nd. Interested scholars and practitioners are encouraged to submit their proposals to [email protected].

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Global Sport Business Association Conference


Currently, five Strength & Conditioning students are working with UM Athletics. Demonstrative of UM Athletics commitment and confidence in our KIN Strength & Conditioning graduate students. Several recent graduates from the S&C program have realized their goals of becoming career strength and conditioning professionals. Dr. Brian Biagioli travels to Kansas City this month to serve CAAHEP’s Committee on Accreditation for Exercise Science and continues to work with the US and European fitness standards councils to enhance the education requirements and to promote professional recognition and regulations. This summer he returns as the strength and conditioning consultant for European FIBA National Coaches Conference for elite basketball athletes in Kaunas, Lithuania.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Tracking our 2014 graduates:

Saul Martinez – San Francisco Giants, Strength and Conditioning Assistant (earned a world championship ring 2014)

Josh Deboer – Loyola Marymount, Assistant Strength Coach

Peter Krystoff – Jaguar Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy/Strength and Conditioning

Sam Simpson – Co-owner of a Private Strength & Conditioning Company

Casey Cathrall – University of Maryland Baltimore, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach

Craig Macdonald - Canadian Sports Institute, Strength and Conditioning Coach

Trey Watson - US Sailing Team, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach

Justine Grosso- Lime Stone College, Director of Intramural Sports and Assistant Cheerleading Coach

Rob Silver – National Council on Strength and Fitness, Credentialing Coordinator

Scott Porter - Michigan State University, Assistant Athletic Trainer

Neville Spurgeon – Morgan State, Assistant Athletic Trainer

Noah Ohlsen – Professional NPGL Athlete

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Strength & Conditioning


Dr. Kysha Harriell, Dr. Hyung-pil Jun, and Dr. Chris Kuenze traveled to Seoul, Korea to present their research interests and discuss the differences between Athletic Training Programs in the United States and programs offered in Korea.

Their first presentation was to the Korean Society of Sports Biomechanics at Ewha Woman’s University. Here, they presented on their research and Dr. Harriell gave an overview of Athletic Training education. The following day, they presented at a conference hosted by the Integrative Sports Science Laboratory at Yonsei University and the Korean Society of Sports Medicine (KCSM). The topic of the sessions was “Patient Outcome of Sport Injury and Standardization of Athletic Training Programs: Bridging the Gap between Sports Medicine (Athletic Training) and Biomechanical Research”.

The Athletic Training program and the KIN department were able to establish a collaborative academic relationship with Yonsei University. In addition, several Korean students expressed an interest in attending the University of Miami in the future. The Athletic Training Program hopes that this relationship leads to future study abroad and internship/exchange opportunities for students.

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Athletic Training Travels to Seoul


The exercise physiology program has been placing an increased emphasis on fostering disease prevention through wellness programs as an integrated and complimentary approach to conventional health care. The Guardrails Initiative, which integrates our exercise physiology students in doctors’ offices to perform complimentary wellness assessments, is an example that manifests this objective. Working for Guardrails, Lana Chehabeddine with help from another undergraduate student, Karen Caraballos-Torres, performed a completely student-run study using the Guardrails Dietary Questionnaire (GDQ). This questionnaire is one of four sections of the health assessment included in the Guardrails Initiative. They added some variation specific to their research objectives, and weighted each question based on nutritional science to score patients on their nutritional behavior to find associations with disease risk.

Over the course of two years, 224 people were assessed in our kinesiology lab (1 of 5 locations hosting these assessments in South Florida) and the resulting GDQ scores were compiled and analyzed against cardiometabolic disease biomarkers that were obtained from other parts of the assessment, such as VO2max and resting myocardial oxygen demand. Five out of eight correlations between biomarker and scores were significant (this included waist-height ratio, myocardial oxygen demand, body fat percentage, VO2max, and physical activity level score (PAL)). We hope that future research will be able to refine and further develop the GDQ so that it can be employed as a common nutritional assessment to predict the risk chronic disease burden and optimize patient health in the clinical environment.

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Guardrails presents at Undergraduate Research, Creativity and Innovation Forum

Lana Chehabeddine

with KIN Doctoral student Craig

Flanagan


The Max Orovitz Laboratory Complex, in the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Sciences, includes the Laboratory of Athletic Training, The Laboratory of Sports Medicine and Motion Analysis, and the Laboratory of Neuromuscular Research and Active Aging.

In the past year, the Max Orovitz Laboratories have published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from sarcopenic obesity to electromyography. In January of 2015, two of the articles published by researchers from Max Orovitz Complex made it to the ‘Top 25 Most Read Articles” for the past three months in their respective journals. The first study entitled "Comparative impacts of Tai Chi, balance training, and a specially-designed yoga program on balance in older fallers" was published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Re habilitation1. It compared a targeted yoga program designed by the Laboratory's research team to two highly successful programs, Tai Chi and multi-directional balance training. Results indicated that our newly designed yoga program produced the same improvements in balance for older fallers as these two established interventions.

The second article entitled "High-speed circuit training vs hypertrophy training to improve physical function in sarcopenic obese adults: A randomized controlled trial" was published in Experimental Gerontology2. This is the first exercise intervention study that targeted improvements in physical function in older adults with sarcopenic obesity. Sarcopenia is the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function often associated with the aging process. Obesity is defined as having a high level of body fat established by a body mass index (body weight/height2) of 30 or above. The study results showed that our unique high-speed circuit resistance training program produced greater improvements in functional performance and lower body power than a standard resistance training program,

and did so at a lower perceived level of exertion.

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Max Orovitz Research in Top 25


These rankings reflect the quality of research, the effectiveness of our faculty/student research teams, and the importance of the research being conducted at the Max Orovitz laboratories.

1Ni M, Mooney K, Richards L, Balachandran A, Sun M, Harriell K, Potiaumpai M, Signorile JF: Comparative impacts of Tai Chi, balance training, and a specially-designed yoga program on balance in olderfallers. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2014 Sep; 95 (9):1620-1628. http://www.archives-pmr.org/#7572cb0e-9396-4f37-8a4a-fd1a7b0d8600-mostRead

2Balachandran A, Krawczyk SN, Potiaumpai M, Signorile JF. High-speed circuit training vs hypertrophy training to improve physical function in sarcopenic obese adults: A randomized controlled trial. Exp Gerontol. 2014 Dec; 60: 64-71. Link: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/experimental-gerontology/most-downloaded-articles/

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MENG NICORE MUSCLE FUNCTION DURING SPECIFIC YOGA POSES

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN MEDICINE - VOLUME 22, ISSUE 2

FEATURED IN THE

SCIENCEDIRECT TOP 25LIST OF MOST DOWNLOADED ARTICLES

RANKED 9TH ON THE TOP 25FOR COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN MEDICINE - APRIL TO JUNE 2014

ANOOP BALACHANDRANHIGH-SPEED CIRCUIT TRAINING VS HYPERTROPHY

TRAINING TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL FUNCTION IN SARCOPENICOBESE ADULTS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY - VOLUME 60

FEATURED IN THE

SCIENCEDIRECT TOP 25LIST OF MOST DOWNLOADED ARTICLES

RANKED 9TH ON THE TOP 25FOR EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY - OTCOBDER TO DECEMBER 2014

Max Orovitz Research in Top 25 (cont.)


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