Medical Experts in Football
Medical Experts in Football is all about culture, soccer and sports medicine! Taiwo, a physical therapist and sports journalist, interviews medical professionals (physical therapists, researchers, athletic trainers, doctors, etc.) around the world who share their journey to working for professional soccer organizations, their job role, sports medicine topics, and much more!
Episodes 1-2x/month, Tuesdays.
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Medical Experts in Football
37: PT, Matt Midkiff - Arizona, Phoenix Rising FC (our Didier Drogba moment), and youth soccer cardiac survival story to a return to the pitch
Matt Midkiff is a sports PT/ director and owner of Foothills Sports Medicine (Gilbert-Mesa) in Arizona. Aside from his clinical work with athletes (from youth soccer player to the professional men's team in the valley, Phoenix Rising FC), he's also a long-time youth soccer coach. Today's episode is about the incredible cardiac arrest recovery involving one of his twin daughters, Pyper. He shares the event from her collapse on the soccer pitch, hospitalization, defibrillator/pacemaker (also for her twin) to his twins return to playing on the soccer pitch. Story reiterates the importance of CPR/AED and hopes to shed more light on cardiac screening in our youth athletes.
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Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
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