“The court is the gold standard,” says Arnie Kander, Orlando Magic vice president of player performance and wellness. “My job is to make them (Orlando Magic players) the best version of themselves as they step onto the wood.”
In this new episode of the Inspiring Wholeness podcast, Kander joins Dr. Harrison Youmans, Sports Medicine Physician, Rothman Orthopaedics at AdventHealth and Orlando Magic Team Physician to talk player performance and sports medicine.
“We try to take everything we learn at the professional level and extrapolate that out to our patients,” Youmans says.
Listen to this episode to learn about:
- Lessons learned while providing care to the Magic’s players
- Maintaining peak performance throughout an entire season
- The AdventHealth Training Center, a world-class sports medicine facility where the Magic players practice that’s open to the public
- Introducing innovation into the Magic’s wellness program
- The future of player performance
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