This morning, I hit the road and ventured up to Tallahassee to meet with the Director of Sports Medicine at Florida State University, Randy Oravetz. A friend of mine, Brett Groves, was an All American shortstop at FSU and I have listened to him for years talk about the aches and pains that he and his teammates suffered while playing collegiate ball.  What a great opportunity to talk to FSU’s athletic department about a new treatment for pain relief after workouts and games!

Randy Oravetz is also the head athletic trainer at Florida State so I was interested to get his feedback on our new product.  The first thing that Randy said was that there was definitely a void in the pain relief market for postgame treatments.  There are currently many pre-workout treatments but nothing besides ice that helps to reduce inflammation afterwards.  Speed Gel does just that with out athletes having to pop a lot of pills or rub stinky menthol gels all over their bodies.

Randy was confident that his athletes would benefit from receiving Speed Gel along with ice after a workout which would allow them to self treat their inflammation. This is huge!  Not to mention much more convenient for athletes.  How many times have I spilled meds all over my bag and gear or not been able to treat myself because the trainers had to administer my treatments?  This is not the case anymore!

I also learned today that the main injuries at FSU are ankle and shoulder strains.  Today’s athlete is putting even more pressure on their muscles and joints as they train.  Thus, finding help in treating those strains is vital to an athlete’s success.  All 10 trainers at FSU are now going to use Speed Gel when treating their athletes.  All of the athletes in all of the sports can take advantage of the relief that Speed Gel provides.

As I was leaving, I also ran into Jamie Shouppe, the assistant head coach of the Seminoles baseball team.  Jamie is also the head recruiter for baseball who tried to recruit me out of high school before I was drafted by the Texas Rangers.  It was great running into him, 12 years later, and talking to him about my experiences in professional baseball.  He couldn’t believe that I played for so long and was interested to hear what brought me back to campus.  It was yet another great opportunity to talk about Speed Gel!