On Saturday, Ocala Orthopedics Group and Strive Rehabilitation will provide free physicals to all Marion County high school athletes. From 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., students can come to this Southeast 17th Street clinic and be examined from head to toe. Reflexes, eyesight, medical history, heart rate, range of motion. They check it all. And, the physicals are free.
Students pay nothing, and the staff receives no profit for their services.
The event is put on entirely as a community service. The school's athletic trainers and therapists from Strive Rehabilitation will screen students for muscular and skeletal problems. Nurses from around the community will obtain vital signs and medical histories and conduct eye exams. Area physicians give the final OK and sign to release the students under a bill of good health. They are concentrated only on the athlete and do a very thorough job.