Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D.

This is abstracted from an article in ESPN: http://m.espn.go.com/general/story?storyId=8297794/ And http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/8297794/neuropsychological-testing-concussions-not-panacea It is annotated and presented here without permission but complete attribution to ESPN. The whole article can be found above and is over 3500 words long. So, I’ve shortened it and made comments. In quotes is from ESPN author; Peter Keating, the rest is [...]

After a lot of discussions and reading, I asked Dr. Dillon if I could be his graduate student to work on a Ph.D. in physiology, after my masters was done. He asked me if I knew what kind of research project I wanted to do, I said yes and gave a brief outline of a [...]

The following week I did extremely well on my finals. I stayed in town and went looking for another job, because I would need it to earn the money to pay for graduate school. Also, as an out-of-state student, I needed to have a graduate assistantship at the university. Otherwise my tuition would be much [...]

“OK, I’ll lock up the training room. I suggest you get someone here for when practice ends.” I said. Clint hung up on me before I could say any more. Right then one of the wrestlers came in asking to have his wrist taped. I of course obliged him and told him I had just [...]

We were learning how to relieve back and neck tension by back and neck cracking along with muscle stretching. Because I had a solid anatomy background from dissecting Clare, all the lessons made tons of sense to me. The muscle stretching would focus on loosening the longest and strongest muscles to increase range of motion [...]

 I studied for and passed the Certification exam for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and became a certified athletic trainer the summer before starting graduate school at Michigan State University. I left for Michigan State to join the training staff who were going to work with the football players at the start of camp for [...]