Chris Hudak
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Former Director of Speed, Strength, and Conditioning
Temple University Athletics
December 20, 2000
To Whom it may Concern,
This letter is to serve as my testimony for Dr. Joseph De Carlo. I was personally under his care for the last four years for many of my own, various sports related injuries. More importantly, he has treated several of our student-athletes at Temple University for the many diverse injuries they sustain over training, practice, and competition.
Being in the collegiate sports world, preventing and dealing with injuries are a part of my daily repertoire. As a strength coach, I try to make my program as safe as possible while trying to maximize athletic ability. Yet, during training and especially, competition, our student-athletes get injured. Although we have an excellent medical and athletic training staff, there are certain injuries and conditions that they are not setup to treat effectively. Dr. De Carlo has taken many of these student-athletes with hard to treat injuries and has dramatically brought them back to "competitive health". He emphasizes the use of Active Release Technique (A.R.T.), a total hands-on approach to accelerate healing. I have witnessed student-athletes with hamstring strains return to practice within three days instead of seven to ten. Athletes with chronic low back pain and previous shoulder surgery have been returned to "full-go" both in the weight room and the practice field because of his treatments.
The bottom line is, I highly recommend Dr. Joseph De Carlo for any competitive athlete who wants to stay healthy and return from injury as fast as possible. I would also recommend him for any person, athlete or not, who wants to stay healthy and pain free.
Yours in Strength,
Chris Hudak