Here at Loudoun Sports Therapy Center, we employ Certified Athletic Trainers (ATCs or ATs) due to their high levels of education and experience. ATCs are medically licensed and certified healthcare professionals who are invaluable members of our patients’ care.
Athletic trainers are educated and trained to prevent, diagnose, and treat injuries. With these skills, ATs at our physical therapy clinic take on crucial roles such as:
- Designing and implementing specialized care and exercises for all patient rehabilitation
- Progressing higher-level patients and athletes
- Return to sport training
- Patient education about their bodies and injuries
- Coordinating patient care with other healthcare professionals
When an athletic trainer works with you at LSTC, you’re getting another set of specialized eyes to find patterns in your movements throughout your exercises that another healthcare professional’s eyes may have not observed. The variety in training and education in our team allow for you to receive the best care possible for your specific plan of care.
What Else Do Athletic Trainers Do?
Traditionally, athletic trainers work with athletic populations in professional, collegiate, and secondary settings. These are your favorite college, NHL, MLB, NBA, NFL, MMA athletes, and even your own children who are middle/high school athletes! Usually, you see a small piece of what athletic trainers are qualified to do on TV during professional athletic competitions.
You may see them assisting a player off the field or court when they get injured. From the moment you see an athletic trainer (AT) walking a player off with an injury, to the moment they return to their sport, the AT is the head of their care organizing and implementing different modalities and exercises to return them to their activity.
Though athletics is the traditional setting for Athletic Trainers, they also provide their services in:
- Military
- Performing Arts (think Circ Du Soleil)
- Industrial (construction)
- Public Safety (police, firefighters)
- Hospitals
- Physician Offices
- Physical Therapy Clinics
- Olympic Establishments
- Occupational Health
Athletic trainers are skilled in emergent care, such as CPR, catastrophic injuries, splinting, and casting, recognizing and treating signs and symptoms of many general illnesses, among others. They also possess general medicine skills and have the knowledge to look for co-morbidities that could be influencing an individual’s health.
For more information on the Athletic Training profession, head to the National Athletic Trainers Association website.
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