today is I'm gonna give a quick introduction. I'm gonna introduce kind of the outline for the ICL. I'm gonna introduce all our speakers, and then we're gonna bring everybody up. They're gonna give their talks, and then we're gonna have time for discussion as well as cases. So these are my disclosures. None of them are relevant. So we know that being a team physician at any level is extremely challenging. Most of the time we're not just managing orthopedic. A lot of times you have to have input on the medical issues as well, and as orthopedic care becomes more subspecialized, it can be difficult to keep up. And many of us are comfortable managing shoulder, elbow, and knee, because this is something that we see every day in our training or our practice, but most of the injuries that we see in the training room and on the sideline don't really fit neatly into this box, and yet we as team physicians are ultimately responsible for managing these injuries. So that's where the concept for this course came from is really my own approach to meetings. I like to attend sessions and ICLs that are really out of my comfort zone and address areas of weakness. So the purpose of this ICL is to update us on sideline and definitive management for foot and ankle, hip, hand, and spine injuries. We're gonna go over the current trends. We're gonna talk about some of the current controversies, and hopefully we can all get some pearls or we can take back to our own teams and our own practices. So who's gonna guide us through this journey? We've got the best of the best here. This is expert faculty. These are my second opinion docs. These are guys that I either call or that I recommend my players to go see if they have any of these injuries. We're gonna start, Steve Shin's gonna get it kicked off here. He's gonna talk about hand injuries. He's associate professor and executive vice chair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He's fellowship trained in hand surgery. He serves as the hand consultant for the Lakers, the Clippers, the Dodgers, the Kings, as well as a ton of NFL teams as a second opinion. Then Drew Dossett's gonna talk to us. He's an orthopedic spine surgeon at the Carroll Clinic in Dallas. He's a spine consultant for the Cowboys, the Rangers, the Stars, as well as Texas Rodeo, where they see some pretty extreme injuries. He's been doing it for a long time. He's 100% my second opinion. He's a great friend and an awesome, awesome spine surgeon. He's gonna give us some really valuable pearls. Then Craig Morrow from University of Pittsburgh. Craig's fellowship trained both in sports as well as hip arthroscopy, team physician for the Steelers. Gonna talk to us about hip and then also the relationship with core muscle, which a lot of times can get a little bit murky and gray. So hopefully we'll get some clarity on that. And then finally, Kirk McCullough's gonna close it off. He's fellowship trained both in sports and foot and ankle, so he has a very unique perspective on how to treat a lot of these complex foot and ankle injuries. He's out of Kansas City and serves as a foot and ankle consultant for Sporting KC, which is the MLS team there, the KC Ballet, as well as the Chiefs. And he also serves actively on the NFL Foot and Ankle Subcommittee. So hopefully he'll share some of that information with us. So the outline, as I mentioned, we're gonna have the lectures. I'm just gonna have each lecturer come up, kind of give their talk. And then after that, I'll bring everybody up. Hopefully, I would like to have this as interactive as possible. You know, if you have questions, we'll have some time for open forum discussion questions. And then if there's no questions, we'll get into kind of rapid fire cases because, you know, that's probably the best way to learn. So I'm gonna bring Steve up.

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