Student Travel with Jeff Hopp
Jan 08, 2025
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Student travel is amazing. I regularly talk with high-school-age students who have never left the Greater Houston Area Jeff Hopp has decided to give up his time off during the summer to take students on trips over the summer.
How did you get started with student travel?
I went on a few trips with my wife as a chaperone since she is a teacher.
My role with EF Tours is to recruit kids and build excitement around the trip.
We offer it to our students AT Aides, Health Science students IB program.
The trips are educational but are mostly about opening people up to travel, culture, and people.
Where were you this summer?
Summer 24 – Ireland, England, and Paris
Where else have you been?
January 23 – Training Trip to Belize
Summer 23 – Costa Rica
Training trips allow you to learn how the trips work.
They are fast-paced and go, go, go
The tour directors pretty much run everything once it starts.
Plane – England – bus – castle – hotel
Wake up early and hit another landmark, a sheepdog demonstration, a bog farm…
Typically from breakfast at 8 am to dinner you are up and going.
1 chaperone travels for free for every 6 kids that pay.
With 30 people you get a private tour.
Why do you spend your summers with students?
These are typically students we would be around all year. Our trips are not open campus-wide. Students have become accustomed to the trips. The kids come into the year looking forward to the opportunity.
Pros and cons of student travel?
We took phones away at dinner and then the kids opened up. They got noisy at dinner because they were talking to each other, bonding, and creating memories.
As an Athletic Trainer you might have summer duties, so traveling with students could eat into the few weeks you have at home.
My wife was gone for 10 days and she got back at the same time I was leaving for my trip. We missed half of the summer together.
AI Motion Capture can be a game-changer for orthopedics. Dr. Adam Whitman of Medbridge discusses how we can benefit and what we have to be careful of when using AI Motion Capture.
Everything has AI now, what does motion capture with AI mean?
AI has been around since the internet started.
As hardware improves so can the calculations the computers can do.
Self-driving cars example – cows falling from abridge…what would you do vs what would a computer do?
AI does really well in processing huge amounts of data rapidly and consistently.
The physics problems in movement patterns allow for AI to be used for growth and improvement.
The machine has to be fed.
ROM is easy to capture and accurately measure.
The computer is limited in cases like spinal movement.
Theoretical AI Motion Capture concepts
Look at the FMS – they are built to be read against functional norms. It has been confirmed against many hundreds of thousands of instances.
We are looking for the potential for injury.
Think about scapular winging…it is like building a house on a concrete foundation vs building on a swamp…which one is built to last.
Some algorithms are being fed based on info so they begin looking for biased outcomes.
One AI model determining which patients should be prioritized from an insurance standpoint became racist because it was being fed biased information.
The algorithmic process can remove the bias when it is fed comprehensive data.
ChatGPT is now its own prompt engineer that allows you to ask average questions and get really good answers.
I look forward to when we can feed the movement into the machine and let it run its analysis without our input.
Think about re-captcha…computers are still bad at identifying objects in pictures. Humans are still needed.
Your movement analysis is your movement fingerprint. That can become a movement profile with each new recording.
What does that look like for the Athletic Trainer?
Emphasis on prevention of injury to the athlete as opposed to reaction-based interventions – reduce the likelihood of an ankle sprain or ACL tear by catching fault movement patterns before the injury occurs
Contact Us:
Dr. Adam Whitman – adam.whitman@medbridge.com
Jeremy Jackson – @SportsMedicineBroadcast on IG
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Digital Health Skills for Rehab Professionals
Dec 11, 2024
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Digital Health is revolutionizing healthcare. Adam Whitman, now with Medbridge, was a practicing clinician for 12 years including running a concierge PT service for NFL athletes.
Emerging Concussion tech can be big business. Casey and Kim join the podcast to discuss some of the new tools and trends for Sports Medicine professionals managing concussions.
What has gone away?
Clear edge test
New Concussion Tech:
What is new?
EyeBox – you put your chin on a chin rest and then track the marker in the EyeBox
Travel and Secondary Loss with Bubba
Sep 18, 2024
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Mitigating Secondary Loss is something that hits home for me. Bubba Wilson has taken his role with ATsCare to another level. We recap the summer and one of the best CEU talks I have ever heard.
Where has AT taken you?
JJ:
Thibodeaux, LA
Dallas, Texas
Arlington
Fort Davis
South Padre
Lansing Michigan
Hot Springs
Las Vegas
New Orleans
San Antonio
JJ Road trip
5 weeks
One van
7 people
Chad from Candid AT
Michigan AT Society Meeting
Meeting Cookie Tuesday in Detroit
Megan Smith at the University of Delaware.
Favorite tourist thing:
Niagara Falls
Least favorite tourist thing
Statue of Liberty
Bubba
All this travel means you need to have your stuff in order…
I teach and followed the DaveRamsey plan to get out of debt, budget, and have my financial house in order
LEADS Academy was created to build foundational leadership and empower the next generation of leaders in the Michigan Athletic Trainers Society. Jacob Ortega-Schultz and Courtney Lewis join me live at MATS 2024.
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