Fall/Winter 2001
N SteadmanSPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION VOLUME Hawkins 7 FALL/WINTER 2001 An International Center for Research and Education — Keeping People Active Patients in the News: SPORTS AND WELLNESS: Bill Schneiderman: Health-Care Savvy and on Tips from NFL’s Broncos Can Keep You Healthy the Mend on the Slopes. Editor’s Note: The following profile is based on an interview by By Jeff Carlson Dick Needham. Mr. Needham is editor of the skier newsletter “Inside Tracks” and senior contributing editor of Ski Magazine. Editor’s Note: Mr. Carlson is a physical therapist for the Howard Head Sports Medicine Center in Vail, Colo. To say “It takes one to know one” is an overused cliché. But in Bill Schneiderman’s Recently I had the opportunity to work case, the expression is apt. Schneiderman, with the Denver Broncos during their today a real estate executive with Marriott training camp in Greeley, Colo. For International, had for 20 years enjoyed a players and personnel alike, training career in health care, where his work camp was not exactly perceived as a focused on the development of health- “good time.” For people on the train- care-delivery systems. He served as chief ing room staff, equipment room staff, executive of the Metropolitan Boston video productions, media, coaching, Emergency Medical Services Council, a etc., it consisted of 12-to-15 hour days consultant to the National Heart, Lung, and seven days a week. For the players, it Blood Institute of the National Institutes of was two grueling practices a day and Health, a member of the Harvard Injury three to five hours of meetings lasting Control Center, and a lecturer at the Harvard as late as 11 p.m.
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