Sports Therapy Services ~ Athletic
Therapy Services ~ Sports Injury Services
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What is a Certified Athletic Therapist?
Certified Athletic
Therapists (AT) are health care professionals that provide
care for musculoskeletal injuries. Their services
range from prevention, assessment, and rehabilitation of
injuries to immediate on-site care of injuries.
Athletic Therapists are certified by the Canadian Athletic
Therapist Association and must stay current with their
expertise in order to maintain this title.
How do they become
certified?
To become a certified Athletic Therapist, one must complete
the Athletic Therapy program at an accredited post-secondary
school. Once they have completed this program they
have to write the national certification exams to become
certified. To maintain certification an Athletic
Therapist must provide the Canadian Athletic Therapist
Association with documentation showing that they are
continuing to develop and enhance their skills as a
therapist.
What are the
career options for an Athletic Therapist?
~ Clinic
Settings
~ Universities and Colleges
~ Professional Sports Teams
~ National Sports Teams
~ Education
~ Medical Event Coverage -
Tournaments, Film Sets
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Is
Athletic Therapy covered by my insurance?
Athletic Therapy is beginning to get more coverage in BC, the
following link will provide you with a list of providers that now
cover Athletic Therapy as well as forms that you can submit to your
provider to request coverage if it is not already provided.
Insurance Providers for Athletic Therapy
Health is a state of complete
physical, mental and social
well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.
~World Health Organization, 1948
