For both weekend warriors and serious athletes, sports injury prevention involves managing injury risk—with knowledge, proper technique, and personal safety equipment. A second key to injury prevention is not ignoring problems or ‘pushing through the pain.’ Lastly, the fitter and more active a person is, the faster they recover from injury and disease.

Guests:

Stanley A. Herring, M.D.,  Senior Medical Advisor and Co-Founder of the UW Medicine Sports Health & Safety Institute, Medical Director of Sports, Spine and Orthopedic Health for UW Medicine, and Co-Director of the Sports Concussion Program, a partnership between UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s. Clinical Professor, Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, and Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington
Team physician for the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Mariners and a consultant to the UW Sports Medicine Program.

Hunter Wessells, MD Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology, University of Washington, a member of the Advisory Committee for Urology on the American College of Surgeons Legislative Task Force, and a  member of the Euro-Trauma Legislative Taskforce of the American Urological Association.