Athletic Heart
METABOLIC & CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Athletic Heart has been providing cost effective, customized sports cardiac imaging to athletes and teams globally. Whether it is clearance to play or research driven, we have provided comprehensive screenings for many different organizations including professional and collegiate teams, combines, retired players associations, olympic athletes and military venues.
“In conjunction with our team cardiologist, we have partnered with Athletic Heart and utilized their streamlined approach to cardiac screening for not just our players, but our coaches and staff as well.”
Donald Strack, DPT, ATC
OKC Thunder
VP of Player Performance
“Last year was our first time using Athletic Heart to cardiac screen our athletes. They were very thorough and able to streamline the entire process making it very convenient for us.”
Clarke Holter
University of Alabama
Senior Athletic Trainer – Men’s Basketball
“We have used Athletic Heart’s echo imaging capabilities for the last seven years with all of our incoming freshmen.”
Jay Clugston
UF
Team Physician
“We have worked together with Athletic Heart for a number of years performing cardiovascular screenings as an important part of our pre-participation physical examination with every student-athlete. The quality of the screenings are excellent and their staff are highly professional and work very well in conjunction with our medical staff.”
Ron Courson
UGA
Senior Associate Athletic Director – Sports Medicine
“The addition of ECG and echocardiogram screening with the help of Athletic Heart has greatly improved the pre-participation screening of our athletes. We feel more comfortable that we have reduced the cardiovascular risk of all of our athletes.”
James B. Robinson, M.D.
University of Alabama
Head Team Physician
“We have been using Athletic Heart for years to help streamline the cardiac testing of our athletes. They work directly with our team physician to provide a comprehensive EKG & Echocardiogram so we can clear our athletes for competition.”
Mary Vander Heiden
UCF
Director of Sports Medicine
“Over the last several years, the folks at Athletic Heart have conducted the echocardiograms on our student-athletes. The customer service and scheduling have been outstanding and the technicians that come to our campus are top-notch professionals. Working with our physicians in having the tests read has been invaluable. If there was ever an issue with a student’s result it’s reassuring to know our doctors are in the loop from the very beginning. I’m looking forward to continuing our relationship for many years to come.”
John J. Kasik MS ATC Cped
University of South Carolina
Associate AD/Sports Medicine
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Athletic Heart: Mobile, Preventive Screening For Athletes
From the hotel suite to the gymnasium floor, Orlando, Fla.-based medical screening company Athletic Heart is mobilizing and modernizing the preventive testing of professional athletes.
For decades, athletes preparing for competition have undergone medical screening to ensure their bodies are up to the task. The screening traditionally occurs within the confines of a hospital imaging center, or inside an outpatient clinic. Athletic Heart is changing all that, and it’s using the cloud.
“We bring a hospital imaging department to you,” Athletic Heart CEO Wesley Stokes said. “ECG’s, ECHO’s, Carotids, we can do ABI’s…We can be pretty extensive as far as screening goes.”
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Together we have developed a set of very specific protocols that benefit the athlete’s performance and well-being. Commonly used cardiac techniques are fine-tuned exclusively for our athletes. These advancements are based upon collaborative research and development initiatives between our team members and result in the establishment of a unique athlete database which has quickly become the “norm” for athletic cardiovascular testing.
We are able to custom-tailor cardiac or metabolic needs to fit the budget and requirements of any organization. And our on-site imaging and cloud-based interface is a valuable resource for your team’s cardiologist that will allow for quick turnaround and clearance of athletes simultaneously — uploading seamlessly to your team’s EMR. Athletic Heart has proven to provide a unique and successful service to organizations time and again.
OUR CAPABILITIES
SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ATHLETIC HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN 2005, OUR FOCUS HAS BEEN ON THE PROVISION OF ACCURATE, INCLUSIVE AND RELIABLE EVALUATIONS OF AN ATHLETE’S CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH.
It is Athletic Heart’s intention to provide reliable data and educated insight to members of the medical community, athletic trainers, coaches, and athletes as to the necessity of cardiovascular testing that supersedes the basic or rudimentary evaluations currently in place for our athletes. Here are some of the testing services we offer.
ECHOCARDIOGRAM
CAROTID DUPLEX
STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAM
TREADMILL STRESS TESTING
EKG
Research & Analysis
Customers We Work With
Here are just a few of the clients we’ve proudly served.
News
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Athletic Heart Leads The Way In Sports-Related COVID Cardiac Clearance
While the long-term effects of COVID-19 are not yet fully understood, one thing is clear: The disease can present a cardiac risk to sufferers, including previously healthy athletes. COVID-19's cardiac risk can consist of complications such as myocarditis, which we...
Cardiac Screening Importance Rises In The Wake Of The COVID-19 Pandemic
Screening of incoming collegiate athletes has always been a priority because it can identify abnormal or borderline abnormal heart structures that could impact an athlete's ability to play sports at the college level.
Return to sports after COVID-19 infection: Do we have to worry about myocarditis?
Current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has grown into a pandemic crisis of major health and economic importance. An infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is known to cause severe respiratory symptoms up to an acute respiratory...
Ultrasound in the fight against COVID-19
Ultrasound is more valuable than ever with its expanding role in the fightagainst COVID-19. Philips provides a wide range of ultrasound systems toassess and manage COVID-19-related lung and cardiac complications.
Recommendations on the Use of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in Young Adult Competitive Athletes
Recommendations on the Use of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in Young Adult Competitive Athletes: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography in Collaboration with the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and the Society for Cardiovascular...
A Game Plan for the Resumption of Sport and Exercise After Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with significant mortality and morbidity, including adverse cardiovascular sequelae.1 As public health policy begins to guide the resumption of recreational and competitive sport, clinicians are charged with...
Solomon: Ex-NBA player credits league screening for detecting his failing heart
When team doctors used to tell Harvey Catchings that he would be out for weeks with an injury, he didn’t believe them. Many high-level athletes don’t think that way. They see their bodies as finely tuned machines, better than average, able to withstand more, recover...
Weight Gain, Hypertension, and the Emergence of a Maladaptive Cardiovascular Phenotype Among US Football Players | Cardiology | JAMA Cardiology | JAMA Network
Question Does cardiovascular risk increase and lead to the development of pathologic cardiovascular phenotypes among US football players?
Arrhythmias and Adaptations of the Cardiac Conduction System in Former National Football League Players
Habitual high-intensity endurance exercise is associated with increased atrial fibrillation (AF) risk and impaired cardiac conduction. It is unknown whether these observations extend to prior strength-type sports exposure. The primary aim of this study was to compare...
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