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Introduction by Ross Dale For those of you informed in the UFC world, you may have heard about Demian Maia’s staph infection incident this past summer. The man went into a fight with a mark on his leg that passed through a health check, and grappled for 8 minutes with Neil Magny in Rio. Following that, Maia was out of commission due to the infection, and Magny was scheduled to fight Erick Silva 10 days later, unaware he could potentially have contracted staph. This is not the first time Maia has had a staph infection: in 2014, he suffered a...

Introduction by Ross Dale According to a study done at the University of Washington, firefighters and medics are at a higher risk for acquiring MRSA than the average person. In a profession that puts you in areas of high exposure to staph in both the community and hospital-acquired strains, the results aren’t too surprising. Marilyn Roberts, the person in charge of the study, “found MRSA in four percent of more than 1,000 samples collected from surfaces inside Snohomish County fire stations, medic and fire trucks, and outer protective gear. But in each of the nine areas sampled, at least one sample tested...

Introduction by Ross Dale The CDC has done more comprehensive research on the study of staph and MRSA than any other organization out there, and is a reputable source for it nonetheless. So when the CDC reports something such as “The Five ‘C’s’ of Spreading MRSA and Staph,” there’s a pretty good chance they put some time into compiling that list of things responsible for spreading MRSA. It just so happens that artificial turf, a surface more comparable to a locker room floor than actual grass and dirt, has all five. By the way, it only takes one of those...

Introduction by Ross Dale In the past few years, fighting sports such as UFC, CKO, and other MMA sports have seen a huge rise in popularity.That means a lot more sweaty bodies, dirty mats, and open wounds for skin infections to spread like wildfire. It’s no surprise that in that surge of popularity there’s been a rise in the notice of how easily it is to get these infections like staph, as well as how catastrophic they are on the body. By taking proper measures to clean up the equipment as well as the skin afterwards, the risk of an...

Author: Dan Seidenberg  For those of you that don’t know, the month of March is National Athletic Training Month. So with March approaching  the purpose of this article is to recognize our athletic trainers who take on a very challenging role in the the Wrestling Community. Wrestling is very demanding of both your time and effort, therefore the hours of hard work that our athletic trainers put in to keep our wrestlers healthy should not go unnoticed. These are just four of the many situations where wrestling makes the athletic trainer’s job a bit more challenging than other sports do. 1. Figuring...