Dell Children’s offers help for kids' soccer injuries

(AUSTIN, Texas) Dell Children’s Medical Center is proud to announce the expansion of its relationship with Lonestar Soccer Club to include increased athletic trainer coverage at multiple locations and an enhanced educational website that serves as a resource for parents.

The website will include information on sports performance, health education, injury prevention and care, “doc talk” instructional videos, athletic training, physical therapy and rehab, orthopedic and clinic information, athletic trainer overviews and more.

“Youth soccer is one of the most popular sports in Central Texas,” said Adam Bauman, Vice President, Orthopedics, Sports and Rehabilitation Services, Ascension Texas. “The expansion of our relationship with Lonestar Soccer Club will both inform parents and children on injury prevention and care as well as connect children and families from injury on the field to expert athletic trainers and immediate care.”

As part of the expansion, Dell Children’s will provide athletic trainer coverage at the following locations and times:

• Round Rock Multipurpose Complex: Monday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30pm
• West Creek: Monday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30pm
• Williamson County Regional Park: Monday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30pm
• Town & Country: Monday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30pm
• Morrow Street (NAO): Monday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30pm
• Justin Lane: Monday-Thursday, 5:00-9:30pm
• The Crossover: Monday & Wednesday, 5:00-9:30pm

Dell Children’s is the exclusive medical provider for Lonestar Soccer Club, the largest youth soccer league in Austin and Central Texas. The multi-year alliance includes Ascension Seton athletic trainers and physicians providing medical care at Lonestar Soccer Club practices, games, clinics and tournaments.

Ascension Seton athletic trainers provide guidance including preventing, recognizing and evaluating athletic injuries, in addition to emergency care or first aid for an injured athlete. This collaboration also allows for innovative virtual care for injured athletes.

About Ascension Texas
In Texas, Ascension operates Ascension Providence and Ascension Seton, which includes Dell Children’s Medical Center, the region’s only comprehensive children’s hospital and pediatric Level I trauma center, and Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, the region’s only Level I trauma center for adults. Ascension Seton partners with Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and shares a common vision of transforming healthcare through a focus on quality and value. Serving Texas for 120 years, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., operating 2,600 sites of care – including 150 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Visit www.ascension.org and www.dellchildrens.net.

About Lonestar Soccer Club
Established in 2004, Lonestar Soccer Club (LSC) offers all levels of play for young people from 3 to 19 years of age. LSC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission of becoming the best youth soccer club in the country while developing good people. A full-time coaching staff that numbers greater than 50 and a membership of more than 7,000 registrants supports the vision of bringing Lonestar Soccer Club's brand of soccer to all parts of Central Texas. Visit www.lonestar-sc.com.