FEATURED ARTICLES BY DR. LAURA MIELE

2/21/2022· Exercise & Fitness

Standards Of Care and Utility For New Personal Training Director

By: Dr. Laura Miele

This article discusses the main areas of safe practice that managers must address in order to create a sound environment for their facility's members, clients and staff - and to protect their business.

9/26/2021· Exercise & Fitness

Fitness Facility Operations: A Forensic Perspective

By: Dr. Laura Miele

Fitness facilities provide a number of services to the public. Those services encompass how to train and create an overall healthy being. There are national standards and guidelines that fitness facilities must follow in order to keep their members safe. Some issues that large and small fitness facilities have in common are the lack of knowledge regarding safe practices in the fitness industry

7/28/2021· Recreation & Sports

Knee Injury Prevention Attitudes And Practices Among High School Coaches

By: Dr. Laura Miele

Injury prevention programs have a positive effect on performance and the reduction of risk in most studies and reviews. However, not all teams and coaches utilize them. In order to better understand this, a 19-item survey was conducted to assess high school coaches’ perceptions, attitudes, and current practices regarding knee injury prevention among adolescent athletes

5/27/2021· Recreation & Sports

Preventing Athletic Injuries

By: Dr. Laura Miele

Sport participation has increased substantially in the last decade, and so has the incidence of sport-related injuries. Today, over six million students are involved in competitive high school sports across the United States. Even more students are involved in organized club sports- baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, hockey, cheerleading, volleyball, wrestling and more.

4/3/2021· Recreation & Sports

Injury Prevention: Amusement Course Safety

By: Dr. Laura Miele

An indoor trampoline park contains wall-to-wall trampolines, bordered either by angled trampoline walls or padding. Recently these parks have added features such as ninja courses, hanging nets, trapeze, wipe out, spider walls, foam obstacles and towers, to name few. All of these features require risk analysis to assist in keeping the public safe.