{"id":19503,"date":"2014-12-11T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:01:42","slug":"alumni-pietila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/11\/alumni-pietila\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni: Pietila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">PIETILA GAVE TEAM ITALY<br>\nBALANCE AT WORLD CUP<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dr. John Pietila of Richfield admits he isn&rsquo;t a sports fan and hadn&rsquo;t watched much soccer. Yet the 1999 BSU graduate spent much of this past summer helping Team Italy prepare for and compete at soccer&rsquo;s prestigious World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">A chiropractor, he did bring a new approach to injury prevention and treatment in the locker room. Pietila&rsquo;s system looks for neurological causes of brain-muscle imbalance and corrects any conflicts before an injury occurs. That differed drastically from a typical prevention approach of hitting the weight room hard, which often created more problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">His NeuroTarget system caught the attention of Italy&rsquo;s soccer brain trust, who wanted him on their sidelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&ldquo;I gave a presentation on injury prevention in Denmark, and the doctor of the Florentina squad from Italy was intrigued,&rdquo; Pietila said. An invitation followed to work with Florentina under close scrutiny from the team&rsquo;s medical staff. The six-month trial period produced remarkable results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&ldquo;The head doctor meticulously tracked statistics,&rdquo; Pietila said of his six-month tryout. &ldquo;He found the injury rate dropped from 26 per 1,000 training hours to only four. He also found the average hamstring injury recovery time dropped from 54 days to 14.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Those outcomes prompted an invitation to apply the system during Italy&rsquo;s World Cup run, which ended with a 1-2 record in the elimination round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Pietila brings the NeuroTarget approach when seeing patients at his Burnsville clinic, where he treats all types of conditions. &ldquo;A sports injury is no different than hurting your back shoveling snow,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIETILA GAVE TEAM ITALY BALANCE AT WORLD CUP Dr. John Pietila of Richfield admits he isn&rsquo;t a sports fan and hadn&rsquo;t watched much soccer. Yet the 1999 BSU graduate spent much of this past summer helping Team Italy prepare for and compete at soccer&rsquo;s prestigious World Cup in Brazil. A chiropractor, he did bring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19504,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/19504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}