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2012 Youth Soccer Symposium -- Strategies for Healthy Performance

The Sports Performance Institute of San Ramon Regional Medical Center invites student athletes, coaches, trainers, and parents to an educational Youth Soccer Symposium on Strategies for Healthy Performance on Saturday, May 12. The symposium will be held in the hospital's South Conference Room in the South Building, 7777 Norris Canyon Road, San Ramon. Continental breakfast and registration will start at 8 a.m., and the presentation will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon.Our sports medicine physicians will discuss:injury preventionresearch updates on performance mechanicsrisk factors for injuries in young soccer playersFollowing the lectures participants will move to the SPI gym, where hospital sports trainers and physical therapists will teach exercises and conditioning techniques designed to reduce injuries and develop performance.Our physician speakers include: Michael Michlitsch, M.D., orthopedic surgeon Ronnie Mimran, M.D., neurosurgeonCharles Preston, M.D., orthopedic surgeonIan Stine, M.D., orthopedic surgeon.Space is limited and preregistration is required. Please call 800.284.2878 or registed at www.OurSanRamonRegionalHospital.com under Find an Event, pull down orthopedics.

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