Kent Falb, ATC, PT will present a lecture at Clarke College on catastrophic athletic injuries on Wednesday, April 12, as part of the college's Sports Medicine Lecture Series. The two-lecture presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in Alumnae Lecture Hall of Catherine Byrne Hall on the Clarke campus. The public is invited to attend.
Admission is free.
Born in Elgin, Iowa, Falb recently retired as the head athletic trainer for the NFL's Detroit Lions. His career began in 1959 as athletic trainer for the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 1963, he joined the NFL as an assistant athletic trainer with the Minnesota Vikings. Falb then became the head athletic trainer at Boston College in 1965 before joining the Detroit Lions as an assistant in 1967. One year later he was promoted to head athletic trainer.