March 8, 1978
Tom Knorr He knows what to do when an athlete isinjured
Tom Knorr had a rough time that
first game—a concussion, a broken
arm, and a blow to the solar plexus.
Fortunately, the injuries were done
to other people. Still, as the DHS
football team’s assistant coach, he
was kept busy on his his first night
in that position. He started recruiting
students to help him with taking care
of the wounded.
That game was three years ago.
Today, Tom Knorr doesn’t have to
worry about being overloaded with
injured players: His efforts in
training students to cope with
injuries has been a roaring success.
Tom, who is the son of Justice of
the Peace Ray Knorr, is a health and
phys-ed teacher at the high school.
Working along with principal Don
Drenner, Tom instituted a course at
DHS which is unique in the area,
teaching kids athletic training, of
which first aid is a part.
It started with a group of girls he
taught to organize equipment, mix
gatorade, and tape ankles. By the
time summer rolled around, the
Parents Booster Club had decided to
subsidize summer training for the
girls at the Cramer Clinic held at
West Chester State. Four of the girls
graduated, and the next year the
regular class was started.
The class now has 36 students in
it, and meets 3 times a week for a
year. The students learn to record
NAIRS reports on injuries to be sent
to Penn State. (NAIRS stands for
National Injury and Illness Reports
System.)
At Penn State a computer chews
up the reports and spits out a statis-
tical analysis of DHS sports injuries,
and tells Tom Knorr when the
numbers or types of injuries here are
out of line. For example, if more
than an an average number of DHS
football players hurt their shoulders,
the report will say that the team’s
shoulder pads may be sub-standard.
(This example was made up. There is
no reason for the Times to think the
equipment here is bad.) The
computer can also spot faulty
practice techniques.
Tom is a Red Cross certified 1st
aid instructor, and part of the class
is the standard advanced 1st aid Red
Cross course. He also teaches
therapy and preventive measures—
the students learn about whirlpool
baths, ice packs, therapeutic exer-
cise, microwave diathermy.
Microwave diathermy uses radia-
tion to heat the deep interiors of
bruised muscles. It works like a
microwave oven, but at lower
power.)
Tom’s medical advisor is Dr.
Brubaker of the Norlanco center, a
69 DHS grad himself. He is a guest
speaker in the Health class. Team
injuries are referred to him also.
Tom Knorr has always had a
special interest in athletic training.
He is an associate member of the
National Athletic Trainer’s Associa-
tion, and is working on National
Certification. That requires S years of
experience (he has been a teacher for
3 years) and passing an exam.
He comes from a medical
family—three of his cousins are
osteopaths, his sister is an R.N., and
so is his mom—and being a health
and physical ed. teacher, his special
interest in training came naturally.
Tom often takes injured athletes to
Dr. Joe Grosh of Lititz. Dr. Grosh
has the special equipment needed to
practice the above-mentioned micro-
wave diathermy, and also something
called ‘‘ultrasound.’” According to
Tom, these methods can almost
instantly heal a sorely bruised
muscle, which can keep a valuable
star player on the team when he
might otherwise be out of the games
for weeks.
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