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.

When to see an Athletic Therapist?

• Injury at work – i.e. low back pain from sitting at a desk
• Injury at a sporting even – i.e. twisting knee at a soccer game
• Rehabilitation following surgery – hip replacement, ACL reconstruction, etc.
• Balance and fall prevention programs with seniors
• Return to work programs
• Injury in a motor vehicle accident – ICBC
• Exercise programs
• Strength and conditioning programs