athletic therapy
What Is Athletic Therapy?
Certified Athletic Therapists are best known for their quick-thinking on-field emergency care of professional and elite athletes. The first to respond when someone gets hurt, they are experts at injury assessment and rehabilitation. It’s that same mix of on-site care and active rehabilitation skills that makes Athletic Therapists so effective in treating the musculoskeletal (muscles, bones, and joints) injuries of all Canadians, whether on the field or in the clinic.
Athletic therapists adhere to the Sports Medicine Model of care. They treat a wide range of patients, from kids with concussions
to seniors recovering from hip replacement surgery, using various manual therapies, modalities, exercise prescription and
even bracing and taping. The treatment varies but the objective doesn’t: an Athletic Therapist's goal is to help clients
return to their usual activities, whether that means playing competitive sports or walking to the mailbox and back.
Certified Athletic Therapists can be recognized by the credential CAT(C).
* copied from www.athletictherapy.org
For more information on athletic therapy please check out the CATA website at www.athletictherapy.org
Certified Athletic Therapists are best known for their quick-thinking on-field emergency care of professional and elite athletes. The first to respond when someone gets hurt, they are experts at injury assessment and rehabilitation. It’s that same mix of on-site care and active rehabilitation skills that makes Athletic Therapists so effective in treating the musculoskeletal (muscles, bones, and joints) injuries of all Canadians, whether on the field or in the clinic.
Athletic therapists adhere to the Sports Medicine Model of care. They treat a wide range of patients, from kids with concussions
to seniors recovering from hip replacement surgery, using various manual therapies, modalities, exercise prescription and
even bracing and taping. The treatment varies but the objective doesn’t: an Athletic Therapist's goal is to help clients
return to their usual activities, whether that means playing competitive sports or walking to the mailbox and back.
Certified Athletic Therapists can be recognized by the credential CAT(C).
* copied from www.athletictherapy.org
For more information on athletic therapy please check out the CATA website at www.athletictherapy.org
