PlaySafe services
Doctors from the center perform preseason physical exams and help monitor the athletes throughout the season. UCSF also sponsors visits from athletic trainers.
We provide:
Medical screenings
- Pre-participation physical exams
- PlaySafe cardiac physicals: An annual community service to detect cardiac risks in athletes. By combining pre-participation physical exams with cardiac EKG and ECHO tests, we offer comprehensive, preventive screening to hundreds of Bay Area student athletes.
Watch a cardiac screening video to learn about one local high school athlete's experience.
- A wrestling weight management program
Sports medicine care
- Development of sports medicine training rooms
- On-site sports medicine care
- Sports event coverage
Referrals
- Priority access to UCSF's Sports Medicine Center
- Access to the UCSF Sports Medicine referral network
- PlaySafe Acute Injury Clinic
Education
- UCSF / PlaySafe student sports medicine internships
- Coach / parent / officials injury education
- Sports medicine conferences and community outreach
Our athletic trainers
Athletic trainers from UCSF Sports Medicine who work with high school athletes:
- Jason Miyamoto, PlaySafe Program Coordinator
- Americ Alvarado
- Tim Baldwin
- Gina Biviano
- Joe Caballero
- Elise Hammond
- Derek Hirai
- Duke Meek
- Kristen Monette
The role of a certified athletic trainer (ATC)
An ATC is a health care professional who specializes in preventing, recognizing, managing and rehabilitating injuries caused by physical activity, and provides these sports medicine services:
- Determines the individual's readiness to participate
- Promotes safe and appropriate practice, competition and treatment facilities
- Advises on the selection and maintenance of equipment
- Develops and implements an emergency action plan
- Establishes protocols for environmental conditions
- Develops injury and illness prevention strategies
- Performs on-site recognition, evaluation and immediate treatment of injury and illness, with appropriate referrals
- Facilitates rehabilitation and reconditioning
- Offers nutritional counseling and education
- Participates in the development and implementation of a comprehensive athletic health care administrative system
