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SPORTS MEDICINE/ATHLETIC TRAINING
Through a comprehensive athletic training program, Hofstra
University student-athletes are provided excellent health
care during their attendance at the University. A coordinated
effort between the University Health and Wellness Center, the
Athletic Department and outside health care providers ensures
every student-athlete the best medical attention possible.
University student-athletes have direct access to a myriad of health
care services. Managing the coverage of every practice and
competition event is Hofstra University’s athletic training staff,
which is headed by second-year Head Athletic Trainer Evan Malings
and features eight full-time assistant athletic trainers and numerous
student athletic trainers. The athletic trainers provide injury
management, rehabilitation and treatment to the entire Athletic
program. Utilizing three state-of-the-art athletic training rooms,
these professionals work tirelessly to ensure the safe participation
of Hofstra’s student-athletes and to return injured athletes to play
quickly and safely.
Supporting the athletic trainers is team physician Dr. Damion
Martins. Dr. Martins, a physician with Pro Health Care, Inc. in Lake
Success, New York, is in his third year on Hofstra’s medical team.
Martins experience in the sports medicine field includes serving as
team physician for the University of Maryland, University of
Maryland-Baltimore County and Coppin State athletic departments.
He was also on the medical staff of the National Football League’s
Baltimore Ravens.
Hofstra University sponsors a fully accredited, highly competitive
undergraduate degree program for athletic training majors, in
which Hofstra student athletic trainers participate in all aspects of
the health care system.
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