The Greene County School Board recently approved the district’s sports medicine coverage for the upcoming school year.

The Board approved at its July meeting to continue with 21st Century Rehabilitation for athletic coverage for all home athletic events, including middle school football, basketball and track meets, and away football games. Superintendent Brett Abbotts couldn’t be more pleased with the services that 21st Century Rehab provides, including one of their main staff members with Emmy Johnson.

“And even on a personal note with my exchange student that I had last year, she just did tremendous work for him. “She” was very, very cautious about putting him back into play until he was ready to go. Jus truly takes the time to know and understand our student athletes, understand our programs and our coaches, and just our relationship and connection that we’ve had with 21st Century Rehab has been phenomenal and one that we hope to continue as long as they’re willing to.”    

Abbotts points out another service that 21st Century Rehab does is concussion baseline testing, as well as testing protocols throughout a given sport season.

“Our care providers knowing and understanding our kids, knowing and understanding what the symptoms look like, and then how to address it, and do that kind of care and prevention, rather than things that are reactive. They really kind of take care of, we call it kind of a ‘wrap around’ of all of them. So they do all of that baseline work to determine what’s normal for them and then understand where they are should they have sustained any sort of serious head injury.”     

The one-year contract was for $9,500 and should any of the sports programs make it to a postseason, those services are included at no extra cost to the district.