16th Annual Pro Football Chiropractic Continuing Education Seminar

Dr. Andy Klein is certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and is board certified in Chiropractic Sports Medicine by the ACBSP. He is a certified Level 1 weightlifting Coach by USA Weightlifting. Professional appointments include appointed chiropractor for the USA at the Goodwill Games in 1998, and the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in 2000. He served as the team chiropractor for the Minnesota Vikings from 2002-2006. He practiced for 21 years in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department at Park Nicollet clinic. Dr. Klein is currently the director at the Human Performance Center at Northwestern Health Sciences University.

Richard Y. Hinton, MD, MPH, MEd, PT

Sports Medicine: A Common Language

Dr. Richard Y. Hinton is the Medical Director of MedStar Sports Medicine, Director of the MedStar Sport Medicine Fellowship Program, and an attending orthopaedic surgeon at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hinton’s practice is concentrated on knee and shoulder conditions and involves athletes at the recreational, scholastic, collegiate, and professional levels of play. Dr. Hinton specializes in ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) reconstruction and complex revision surgery. He has a special interest in pediatric and adolescent sports medicine, injury epidemiology, and sport and culture in American society.

Dr. Hinton began his sports medicine career as a physical therapist and certified athletic trainer. He then received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (AOA 1990 ) and residency training in orthopaedic surgery at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. He completed fellowship training in both pediatric orthopaedic surgery and adult sports medicine at these same institutions. He then received his Master of Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins with a concentration in epidemiology and injury prevention.

Dr. Hinton has served as a team physician for the NFL Baltimore Ravens, Towson University, Loyola University, Morgan State University, the Women’s US National Lacrosse Team, and a number of scholastic and youth organizations. He is an executive board member of US Lacrosse’s Sports Science Committee and director of the nation’s leading lacrosse-specific sports medicine program at MedStar Health. He serves as Vice Chair of the NFL’s Research and Innovations Committee. He has served as president of the Maryland Orthopaedic Association and held membership on various AOSSM committees, as well as the Maryland Board of Physicians Athletic Trainers Oversight Committee. Dr. Hinton has authored numerous articles in the areas of injury epidemiology, lacrosse sports medicine, ACL injury, and reconstruction and knee conditions in the skeletally immature.

Dan McClure, DC, CCSP, CCEP

Game Changing Extremity Adjusting

Dr. Dan McClure combines a life-long love of athletics with his chosen profession for a natural specialization in chiropractic sports medicine. He is a former high school and college athlete who first became interested in chiropractic when it offered him great relief for a low back injury sustained during college football.

In 1989 he was selected for the interdisciplinary sports medicine team at the US Olympic Training Center. His USOC association continued through the 1990 Olympic Sports Festival and the 1991 Pan American Games. Due to his successful treatment of divers’ wrist injuries at those USOC events, he was invited to join the Sports Medicine staff of US Diving in 1991. Since then, he has worked with elite divers at training camps, Indoor and Outdoor National Championships, Olympic Trials, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. McClure is a nationally and internationally renowned expert and lecturer on extremity injuries and manipulation. His extremity experience ranges over 30 years. Dr. McClure’s state of the art techniques are constantly being refined, so you will learn time proven techniques as well as cutting edge techniques in the process of development. This level of commitment and experience, along with his passion for excellence in applying chiropractic extremity techniques is what makes him the best in his field.

P. Michael Leahy, DC, CCSP, ART

Diagnosis based on Biomechanics

Dr. P. Michael Leahy is an honor graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, former fighter pilot, and proud veteran. After his military service, Dr. Leahy graduated valedictorian of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic.

Not long after graduating valedictorian of Los Angeles Chiropractic College, Dr. Michael Leahy grew increasingly dissatisfied with the slow and poor efficacy of traditional soft-tissue treatment methods, especially for professional and Olympic athletes that urgently needed to get back to training and competition. He set to work developing the Active Release Techniques (ART) treatment system. Astonished by his impressive results, Dr. Leahy’s friends and colleagues urged him to train other healthcare professionals to utilize the ART treatment system in their practices.

Throughout his career, Dr. Leahy has regularly treated professional, collegiate, and Olympic athletes, including Ironman champions, members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Olympic gold medalists, PGA Tour champions, and even a U.S. President. He has been on staff with the NFL’s Denver Broncos for more than two decades, and he and his ART Team remain a mainstay at the finish line of the Ironman World Championships in Kona.

Dr. Leahy has never stopped developing ART treatment. He discovered and published the Law of Repetitive Motion and the Cumulative Injury Cycle, redefining understanding and treatment of athletic- and work-related injuries. Today, as president of ART, Dr. Leahy’s work is dedicated toward developing curriculum and instruction materials for ART that perfect ART models, systems, and protocols bit-by-bit, based on feedback from ART Certified Providers, professional athletes, and students collected over more than three decades. ART’s aim remains the same. Dr. Leahy and his team are dedicated to continuing to push the limits of efficacy and efficiency in soft-tissue and nerve care.

Sunita Wardly, BPhty and MPhty

The Biomechanical Taping – It’s a Game Changer

Sunita Wardley is an experienced and highly qualified Australian Physiotherapist, and a leader of health practitioners, programs and change. She has successfully driven culture and systems change at the Australian Women’s Football National Team’s, Sydney FC Women’s, and recently the NSW Police Force through a focus on a human approach to health and performance, empowering individuals to take ownership to make lasting changes to their health and wellbeing.

Sunita joined the NSW Police Force after an 8 year career working in private practice and professional sports, where she held positions such as Head Physiotherapist for the Australian Women’s Football and W-League. She decided to take up this unique opportunity with the Police Force after being a part of the Matildas’ team successfully qualifying for the 2016 Olympics. Sunita wanted to apply the philosophies of professional sports’ proactive and outcome-driven health and performance to the NSW Police Force and their tactical operations group.

Sunita is a member of the NSW Institute of Sports Provider network as a result of her extensive work with elite athletes at both state and national levels. As a Clinical Educator for Sydney University and Macquarie University’s School of Physiotherapy, she helped educate and mentor aspiring physios.

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Ted Forcum, DC, DACBSP, DACBR

Functional Approach to Foot Orthoses: It is not about how the block stack anymore.

Dr. Forcum received a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University, and doctorate from the University of Western States. He is an NSCA-CSCS, Graston Technique Certified, NASM-CES, NASM-PES, Registered Trigenics Practitioner, Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Rehabilitation, and Internationally Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician. The ACA Council on Sports and Physical Fitness awarded Dr. Forcum the 1994-95 and 2004 Sports Chiropractor of the Year. Dr. Forcum is the team chiropractor for the Portland Winterhawks WHL Hockey Team. He was medical staff for the 2015 USATF World Championships, 2008 Beijing US Olympic Team, and 2007 Rio de Janeiro US Pan American Team. He was President of the ACA Council on Sports and Physical Fitness from 2008-10. He has been in private practice since 1988, Sports Master’s Program faculty at UWS, and is a board of director for the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine and Science.

Kathy Weidner, MCS-P, CCPC, CCCA

The Riskiest Financial Compliance Errors You’re Probably Making

Kathy Weidner, better known professionally as Kathy Mills Chang, started
as a CA in 1983 and has been providing healthcare providers and teams with hands–on
training, advice and tools to improve the financial and compliance performance of their
practices ever since.

Kathy is known as one of our profession’s premiere Medicare, compliance, billing, and
documentation experts. She knows her stuff, and consistently rates as one of the most
informative, and entertaining speakers we have. Now a Certified Medical Compliance
Specialist (MCS–P), a Certified Professional Chiropractic Coder (CCPC) and a Certified
Clinical Chiropractic Assistant (CCCA), Kathy’s super–power is that she makes these difficult
subjects simple, easy to understand, and, most importantly, easy to implement.

In 2007, Kathy founded KMC University, the profession’s go–to for practice analysis and
training on these subjects. Her team is the largest team of certified specialists under one roof
in the profession, and has over 250 years’ experience in chiropractic, including Kathy’s 37
years of service to the profession. You can find out more about KMC University at
www.kmcuniversity.com