Athletic Training

• Injury/illness prevention and comprehensive athlete wellness
  • Nutrition, sleep, mental health, and preventative injury strategies
• Clinical evaluation and assessment
• Immediate and emergency care (includes four portable AEDs)
• Treatment
• Rehabilitation
• Organizational and professional health and wellbeing
• Management of return-to-play from a concussion
• Evaluating conditions to ensure student-athlete's safety

Daily treatment and taping takes place in the athletic training room, while fitness training for our teams takes place next door in the fitness room. A variety of fitness, treatment and rehabilitation equipment is available to our athletes and is supervised and implemented by the athletic trainer and/or coaches.

Athletic Training Room
·       Treatment table
·       Taping table
·       Ultrasound/Electrical stimulation unit
·       Heat and cold modalities

Strength & Conditioning Center
·       5 Treadmills
·       2 Arc Trainers
·       2 Stationary bikes
·       3 Assault Bike
·       20 Concept 2 Rower
·       1 Smith Machine
·       Synergy 360
·       1 Peloton
·       1 Sled
·       Free weights / Kettlebells
·       Foam rollers
·       Therabands/Resistance tubing
·       BOSU & BOSU Signature Leg Raise
·       Physioballs
·       Medicine balls

Orthopaedic & Neurosurgery Specialists (ONS) has become an invaluable resource for Sacred Heart Athletics in the last few years. While supporting Sacred Heart’s athletic trainer with orthopaedic and neurological consults, speaking to our athletes and parents about important health topics, and helping to implement ImPACT testing in 2010, the doctors at ONS always manage to accommodate our athletes in a timely manner. Our team doctor at ONS include Dr. Katie Vadasdi, with neurological support from Dr. Mark Camel. 

The Sacred Heart Greenwich-ONS alliance provides professional medical support to the Sacred Heart Athletic Department. Sacred Heart families are under no obligation to be seen by an ONS physician. However, if the family chooses to see the doctors at ONS, the Sacred Heart athletic trainer and ONS physicians will stay connected throughout the evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation process of that student-athlete. 

Team Doctor

Katherine B. Vadasdi, MD 
Specialties: Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine
Shoulder and Elbow, and Adolescent and Adult Sports Medicine.

 

Contact ONS
Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery Specialists
6 Greenwich Office Park
10 Valley Drive in 
Greenwich, CT

For more information about ONS and our team doctors, or to make an appointment, visit www.onsmd.com or call (203) 869-1145.

Click here for more information on the ONS- Sacred Heart Greenwich Insurance Program

Should a student-athlete participating in Sacred Heart Athletics be seen by a physician for an injury or ailment that may affect her ability to participate in games or practice, a note from the physician stating the student-athlete is Cleared-to-Play must be presented to the SH athletic trainer before the athlete can return to play in practice or competition. This policy applies to athletes referred by the SH athletic trainer or self-referred. 

A release note from the original doctor who treated the initial injury and suspended participation is required before the athlete can return to play in the current or future seasons. 

For the protection of the athlete and the School, verbal clearance or a written waiver from the parent/guardian is not acceptable.