{"id":1897,"date":"2012-11-11T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2012-11-11T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:04:17","slug":"pointers-learn-about-womens-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/11\/11\/pointers-learn-about-womens-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointers learn about women&#8217;s health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/ministrywomen201211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1898\" title=\"ministrywomen201211\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/ministrywomen201211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Even the most athletic individuals can improve their health. That&#8217;s why UW-Stevens Point invited a panel of women&#8217;s health specialists from Ministry Health Group to speak to Pointers female student-athletes on Sunday, Nov. 11. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uwspcps\/sets\/72157631989116923\/\">Photo Gallery<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kit Swiecki, MD, Dr. Fred Boehm, MD, and Traci Smet ATC, CSCS, PES, presented to the Pointers about breast cancer, melanoma, injury prevention, nutrition, flexibility, and other women&#8217;s health issues. The panel emphasized the importance of education, early detection, and knowing yourself and the facts, including:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>2.6 million women are alive in the US right now who have or have had breast cancer<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>1 in 8 women will get breast cancer in their lifetime<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>39,000 deaths from breast cancer in 2011<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Having an opportunity to educate our female student-athletes on general women\u2019s health issues was something I did not want to pass on,&#8221; said UWSP head women&#8217;s basketball coach Shirley Egner. &#8220;The program was very informative and the women were given information that will benefit their personal well-being now and long after they are finished competing for UWSP.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the most athletic individuals can improve their health. That&#8217;s why UW-Stevens Point invited a panel of women&#8217;s health specialists from Ministry Health Group to speak to Pointers female student-athletes on Sunday, Nov. 11. [Photo Gallery] Dr. Kit Swiecki, MD, Dr. Fred Boehm, MD, and Traci Smet ATC, CSCS, PES, presented to the Pointers about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,19],"tags":[82,171,172,222,236,305,343,344,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}