For most area schools, the winter sports season has wrapped up, and now it’s time to look forward to spring athletics.

Rehabilitation Director Clint Lutterman with 21st Century Rehab at Dallas County Hospital says with a new season of sports comes a new set of potential injuries. Lutterman serves as the primary athletic trainer for the Perry School District, and he says he’s working on getting students physically prepared for soccer and track. “Over the next few weeks I’ll be touching base with the coaches and the kids in getting anybody that needs baseline concussion testing done, especially with soccer, obviously that’s a huge thing. We see a few kids every year with soccer getting concussions. And so (we’re) just making sure the kids are ready to go. (At) the start of any sports season, you get kids that haven’t really been taking care of themselves as well as they should, and so you see some of those early-on strains (and) sprains. But yeah, once we get going into those two sports it’s pretty busy!”

Lutterman advises athletes to get into the workout or weight rooms as soon as possible, particularly if they didn’t play a winter sport, which he says will considerably reduce their injury risk. To learn more about spring sports health, click the link below to listen to the Perry Fareway Let’s Talk Dallas County program with Lutterman.

https://www.raccoonvalleyradio.com/2020/02/25/lets-talk-dallas-county-2-25-2020-clint-lutterman/