A number of cities would love to be known as Hockeytown — Detroit has even trademarked the moniker — but Rochester, Minn., is vying for the title of Hockey Rehab Town. Rochester's Mayo Clinic plans to open a new sports medicine complex and develop a first-class, hockey training center within it. The center will include artificial ice, a skating treadmill and equipment to improve stick handling and shooting. The complex will include physicians, trainers, physical therapists and conditioning specialists, creating a "premier environment for hockey injury management and performance enhancement," according to Michael Stewart, M.D., co-director of Mayo's Sports Medicine Center and chief medical officer for USA Hockey, the sport's U.S. governing body.
Trying their puck
Mayo Clinic offers hockey rehab and training
Artificial ice, ice skating treadmill part of effort to cater to hockey players
July 1, 2013
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