Health & Wellness Schedule
Timeline
Healthy Athletes
- Friday, 10/18
- Stations open 4:00-7:30 PM
- Located in Glens Falls City Park- Outside on Maple Street in large tents
- Disciplines Offered: Fit Feet (podiatry), FUNFitness (physical therapy), Health Promotion (general health & wellness), Special Smiles (dentistry), and Strong Minds (emotional health)
- Volunteer Opportunities – Assist with duties such as athlete registration, station setup/breakdown and working with the Clinical Director to screen athletes on the core screening components of each discipline, record findings and distribute information.
Performance Stations
- Saturday, 10/19
- *Tentative plan: Stations open from 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
- Located in the Morse Athletic Complex
- Performance Stations: Volunteers will assist with duties such as athlete registration, station setup/breakdown and working with the Station Captain to engage and educate athletes on the station topic. Performance Stations are designed to educate athletes and their supporters in fitness: nutrition, hydration and physical activity. These stations directly connect fitness to sport performance, and show how incorporating these can enhance training, performance at competition, and health. There are a few different station focuses: Competition Readiness, Game Day Minds, Nutrition, Hydration, Physical Activity, The Pledge Wall, and Local Opportunities/Giveaways
Interested in being a Fall Games Health Volunteer?
Volunteers can be undergraduate/graduate students in any health/fitness related discipline or health/fitness professionals
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Create a volunteer profile –> Select “Volunteer Opportunities” –>
Choose “2024 State Fall Games” –> Scroll down and enter
“FG24” in the invitation code box –> Click “Search” –>
Sign-up for your specific health discipline
Having issues registering? Please reach out to mhasbrouck@nyso.org
Learn more about each offering:
Performance Stations are designed to educate athletes and their supporters in fitness: nutrition, hydration and physical activity. These stations directly connect fitness to sport performance, and show how incorporating these can enhance training, performance at competition, and health. There are a few different station focuses: Competition Readiness, Game Day Minds, Nutrition, Hydration, Physical Activity, The Pledge Wall, and Local Opportunities/Giveaways
A discipline of Healthy Athletes, Fit Feet is a podiatric screening for Special Olympics athletes and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) that focuses on athletes’ ankle & foot health, lower extremity biomechanics, as well as footwear fit and condition. Many Special Olympics athletes are wearing the wrong size or type of shoes while competing, which can contribute to or worsen the presence of foot and ankle pain and dysfunction. Together, these issues can negatively impact an athletes’ navigation of everyday life and sport performance. During Fit Feet screenings, volunteer foot care specialists & students work with athletes to identify areas of concern. Using the results of the screening, volunteers provide athletes, coaches, families, and caregivers education on proper foot care and health to maximize the athlete’s ability to step lively onto the playing field of everyday life.
Screenings will include flexibility of hamstring, calf, shoulder rotator and hip flexor muscles; functional strength of the abdominal and lower extremity muscles; and balance.
Screenings will include taking blood pressure and body mass index (BMI). The goal of this screening is to encourage and enhance healthy behaviors and improve self-efficacy and self-advocacy.
Screenings will include instructions on correct brushing and flossing techniques.
Screening will allow athletes to identify strategies that work best for them and volunteers provide them with visual reminders to use these tools in competition and in daily living.