Athletic Therapy
Athletic Therapy
Exercise is one of the five pillars or essentials of health and wellness. Three times per week or daily exercise is essential to all avenues of health. Exercise stimulates the body and preps it for bodily functions, the expenditure of energy and the most importantly fun! It is a given that the professional athlete utilizes athletic therapists. You will see them on the bench or sidelines of most major sports. What the average person tends to forget is the fact that the weekend warrior or occasional sport enthusiast requires the services of a therapist just as much as the professional.
You see although the body is in need of exercise, it is exercise that in fact commonly damages the soft tissue throughout the body. From the most acute athletic injury to full sprains and tears Athletic Therapy caters to these problems. Unfortunately these soft tissue conditions can become so unbearable that the pain exceeds the joy of activity. The ideal of Athletic Therapy is to treat minor athletic injuries to prevent them from becoming major injuries in the long run. Athletic Therapy at Alliance Healthcare can compliment our various other modalities by combining your recovery through Massage, Physiotherapy and Chiropractic. These various healthcare techniques with exercise and stretches can ensure quick and comfortable recovery. Exercises and stretches are designed on a case by case basis to ensure the patients maximum results.
What is a certified Athletic Therapist?
A Certified Athletic Therapist C.A.T. is a professional, certified in Ontario that provides pragmatic and effective solutions to those recovering from physical injury. The Athletic Therapist also promotes healthy active living and injury prevention. There is a governing association headquartered in Toronto.
What Care Do Athletic Therapists Provide?
The therapist utilizes a wide array of treatment modalities, and offers personalized recovery and rehabilitation programs. Athletic therapy also stresses patient education as an essential pillar to a healthy and rapid route to recovery focusing on the following: exercise, reconditioning, awareness of injury prevention measures, and how to avoid reoccurrence. Lifestyle modification and counseling help the patient better understand the fastest route to recovery so they can be back on their feet doing the activities they love.
The scope of Athletic therapy covers the realms of prevention, acute care and the reconditioning and strengthening of musculoskeletal injuries. Prevention includes musculoskeletal and postural evaluation, modality intervention if needed, manual techniques, conditioning programs, prophylactic and supportive taping.
Certified Athletic Therapy at Alliance ultimately ensures that our patients are receiving the most optimal and state of the art care available. This in conjunction with our other modalities can achieve the fastest recovery will still accomplishing these goals at your own comfortable pace.
Key points to Athletic Therapy...
- find and treat the cause of injury to allow quick return to active daily living
- ensures muscles are flexible, strong and coordinate with other muscles to provide efficient movement
- develops specific and individualized conditioning programs for the demands of different sports, daily living and activities
- education and rehabilitation of sprains, strains, muscle, ligament, bone or joint injuries
- rehabilitation of PRE and POST orthopedic surgical procedures
Policies that cover Athletic Therapy services
Private/Extended Health Insurance ~ plan specific- Blue Cross (through Liberty Health)
- Barrie Chamber of Commerce
- Ford Dunn Insurance Brokers/Allsport Insurance Marketing
- Green Shield
- Segwich
- Luarention Imperial
- Great West Life
- Aetna
- Canada Life
- Sunlife
- Manulife
- Clarica
Sporting Bodies
- Ontario Baseball Association
- Ontario Basketball Association
- Ontario Amateur Football Association
- Ontario Track and Field Association
- Ontario Amateur Hockey Association
- Ontario Wrestling Association
- Ontario Judo Association
- Ontario Boxing Association
- Slo-pitch Ontario Association (Allsport Insurance)
- Ontario Soccer Association
- CFL Players' Association
- NHL Officials' Association
- Ontario Minor Hockey Association
- Ontario Rowing Association
