Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: Olympic Trainer
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Shelby Hoppis will be heading to Tokyo for the Summer Olympics as part of the medical team
St. Luke’s University Health Network’s lead athletic trainer also belongs to Team USA. Shelby Hoppis will be heading to Tokyo for the Summer Olympics as part of the medical team working with U.S. women wrestlers.
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Your Health Checkup is a local public television program presented by PBS39
Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: Olympic Trainer
Episode 26 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
St. Luke’s University Health Network’s lead athletic trainer also belongs to Team USA. Shelby Hoppis will be heading to Tokyo for the Summer Olympics as part of the medical team working with U.S. women wrestlers.
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The Summer Olympics kick of this month after being postponed for a year becauf the coronavirus.
One Lehigh Valley health ce worker will be there.
This is on my bucket list.
This is something that I've been working towards and ws encouraged to work towards.
Shelby harpists is the lead athletic trainer at St Luks University Health Network.
She's on the medical team working with the USDA femae wrestlers.
Wonderful to have this team around these high performig athletes.
We always say that the wors done already, but anythingt they need in these last few days leading up to competin is what we're there to pro.
Hoppa says she's excited te assisting the six women competing for gold during a 2020 Olympic Games in Toky.
We hope at this stage and e enter the Games and trainig camp that it's more perfore maintenance care.
So whether that's hands on treatment in terms stretch, whether there's some massae therapy, whether we're loog at different treatments associated with what we cal muscle energy, things of tt nature, those are the typef things that we'll be doing.
And really it's to continuo help facilitate that proce.
She applied for the USA Wrestling Medical pool in 0 17 was accepted and has aly done four tours with the t. But this is her first Olym.
Those heading to the gamest be tested for Covid ahead f flying to Japan.
It's really a fun group toa part of.
You know, they have big go.
They've been training for w five years, not just for ts opportunity.
So everybody's really excid and ready to go for PBS39.
I'm Brittany Sweeney your health checkup is brought o you by Capital Blue.
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