Innovation Showcase
gymSAFE: Orthopedic and Biomechanical Screen for Elite Female Gymnasts
Innovation Showcase Jennifer Kinder, Alyssa Herrera Set, Jessica Wickizer
Women’s gymnastics ranks second highest in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports in experiencing severe injuries, between wrestling and football. It has been found female gymnasts train 71% of the time with an injury, often with 45% of these injuries lingering at least 3 years later. Developing a way to prevent the high injury rates experienced by female gymnasts is a priority to families, coaches, and the providers who care for them. Similar to developing sport specific training programs for optimal performance, developing sport specific injury prevention screens can potentially assist coaches and providers in the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries common to that sport. The gymSAFE Movement Screen is the first assessment tool to specifically focus on identifying and addressing key common movement faults associated with mechanisms of injury in gymnastics. The gymSAFE screen, by means of a digital application, inputs the gymnasts’ screen data and provides an “injury risk score” that is easily translated to the gymnasts’ healthcare providers and coaches. Gymnasts are then taught a home exercise program by a physical therapist who specializes in gymnastics and dance. Audience members will learn the development of the gymSAFE screen, current reliability and validity data of the gymSAFE screen, and will receive hands-on practice using the gymSAFE application and score reporting system. The gymSAFE screen is a first-line step in preventing injuries and keeping female gymnasts healthy.
All Day Energy the Natural Way
Innovation Showcase Richard Caveglia
This fast paced, highly interactive presentation is for those who want to learn simple, proven techniques and strategies for increasing personal energy naturally. Many people these days are lacking the energy they need to perform at their highest level, so they resort to stimulants, so-called energy drinks, and too much coffee. These stimulants are over stressing their adrenal glands and actually producing long term chronic fatigue. Participants will learn the real reasons they lack energy and what they can easily do to correct the problems. Participants will learn proven mind/body strategies and techniques.
Writing to Flourish: PERMA, Well-Being, Experiential Learning, and College Writing Success
Innovation Showcase Stacey Cochran
Situated in PERMA (Seligman, 2011) and drawing on calls for research outlined in Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), the speaker discusses how he is developing a student-centered experiential learning curriculum in First-Year Writing. The speaker will discuss a gratitude intervention research and reflection project first-semester students completed to develop positive mood, prosocial behavior, and other-centered metacognition. Assignment sheets will be provided. Additionally, the speaker will discuss additional support for his conceptual framework drawing on the zones of proximal development (Vygotsky) to mitigate culture shock (Oberg) that challenge first-year students’ persistence. Finally, the speaker will discuss two additional writing and research assignments that broaden and build (Fredrickson) from the gratitude intervention: a random acts of kindness research logbook project and a coordinator of cooking on campus research logbook project. Student samples and assignment sheets will be provided for all of these experiential, other-centered, research writing assignments. Finally, the speaker will address his role as Coordinator of Student Success and Wellness within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona with an eye toward soliciting audience-participation and feedback regarding how to operationalize innovative curricula optimally within existing institutional power structures while considering stakeholders across a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives.
Bridging the Gaps: Strategies for Challenging Behaviors
Innovation Showcase Katy Bigsby
In this presentation, we look at how non-formal learning settings, using a Social-Emotional Learning framework, can support children and youth with challenging behaviors. What kinds of invitations to participate work? How can staff support participants through the use of pro-active strategies, namely, rapport, boundaries/expectations, and flexibility? I will present some innovations.
