NFL picks Cedarville U. trainer to help Bengals

The NFL has hired the athletic training education program director for Cedarville University to serve as an independent concussion management expert for the Bengals.

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The NFL has hired Mike Weller, athletic training education program director for Cedarville, to serve as an independent concussion management expert for the Bengals. Weller will work with the team during its summer camp in July and August.

Last summer, he served as a training camp staff athletic director, but his position was expanded for this summer.

Weller is the first non-Bengals staff athletic trainer the franchise has approved to work with its athletes, according to the university.

?I am on the field during all practices and have an integral role in monitoring player status,? Weller said in a statement. ?This ranges from hydration, nutrition, evaluation of orthopedic and general medical conditions, to injury management and treatment and rehabilitation of injuries.?

Weller, also an assistant professor of athletic training, said he hopes his position with the team will build Cedarville?s athletic training program reputation so that university students will have a chance to serve as athletic training student interns for the Bengals and other NFL teams. Cedarville students already work with the Columbus Crew? ? Columbus Crew Latest from The Business Journals NFL taps Cedarville U. trainer to help BengalsDayton Dutch Lions break ground on youth soccer fieldsCrew?s LED ad board leads to deals with Scotts, Coughlin Automotive Follow this company professional soccer team.

The Christian university has worked in the past few years to bolster other programs, especially in health care fields.

Cedarville recently completed its $22 million Health Sciences Center to house its nursing department, bioethics center and school of pharmacy, which has received approval to matriculate its initial class this fall in the new building.

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