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Nathan Quebedeaux Named Head Athletic Trainer At Tulane

Article reposted from TulaneGreenWave.com
Author: TulaneGreenWave.com

Nathan Quebedeaux has been hired as head athletic trainer at Tulane University, according to an announcement by the department of athletics on Monday.

Quebedeaux will oversee Tulane’s entire athletic training staff, and will work primarily with the Green Wave’s football program.

Prior to his arrival at Tulane, Quebedeaux joined the Southeastern Louisiana athletics staff in August 2015 as assistant athletics director for sports medicine where he was the day-to-day contact for the Lions’ football program.

A Hammond native, Quebedeaux returned to Louisiana after spending two and a half years at Temple as an assistant athletic trainer from 2013-15. During his time with the Owls, he provided treatment, rehabilitation, evaluation and coverage for the university’s football, soccer, baseball and softball teams.

Prior to a stop at Vanderbilt as a term professional athletic trainer from 2012-13, Quebedeaux was a resident assistant athletic trainer for two years at the University of South Florida, where he worked withthe Bulls’ football, tennis and dance teams, as well as the cheerleaders from 2010-12. During his time at USF, he was named the Don Joy Resident Athletic Trainer of the Year.

Quebedeaux also spent the 2009 season with the National Football League’s Detroit Lions as a certified athletic training intern.

Quebedeaux received his bachelor’s degree in athletic training in 2009 from Nicholls State, where he played baseball for the Colonels. He later earned his master’s degree in exercise science in 2012 from South Florida.

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Seminar to focus on treating injured athletes on field

If you work with athletes in any sport where they wear equipment, there’s important, new, information.

Injured players could suffer more damage if new medical guidelines are not followed, and a free seminar Tuesday can help.

New research is changing the way doctors, trainers, coaches, EMS and even other players respond to a football player injured on the field. The new treatment could mean the difference in a player being able to walk again.

“I think we’ve had more than our share, in the state of Louisiana, of catastrophic injuries, not just football, but again, in all sports. And Tulane University has taken the forefront long before the NFL came up with the Heads Up program,” said Dean Kleinschmidt, a certified athletic trainer and Tulane Program Assistant in the School of Medicine and Institute of Sports Medicine.

Until now, there was no consistent rule about when and how to remove the equipment of the injured player. Paramedic Elvis Smith is called to the field about five times each football season.

“One trainer might want to take the pads and helmet off, or the next one might say, ‘No. Leave it all on,”‘ said Smith, an EMS clinical educator at East Jefferson General Hospital and a National Registered Paramedic.

The new research shows why, in many cases, the equipment should be removed by a team of trained people on the field.

“It makes more sense for the people familiar with the equipment to remove the equipment as opposed to taking them to the emergency room, where emergency room physicians and nurses aren’t familiar with the equipment,” said Dr. Greg Stewart, a Tulane sports medicine specialist.

Still there are times when the equipment should be left on. And the way it is removed is paramount.

“If you take the helmet off, but leave the shoulder pads on, then there is a significant change in the angle of the neck, so if you take off one, you have to take off the other” Dr. Stewart said.

Coaches are hoping people across the area will come to Tulane for the new training.

“When you have good people, they know the procedure. They know what to do when something goes wrong. You know, it’s just a good feeling. You can rest easy,” said Curtis Johnson, Tulane’s head football coach.

The seminar is free and will be held Tuesday at Tulane from 7:30 a.m. to noon. Trainers, doctors, paramedics, coaches and lawyers are invited. For more information, call 864-2127.

 

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/local/orleans/2015/07/27/seminar-to-focus-on-treating-injured-athletes-on-field/30757553/