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Athletic Trainers at the High Schools

Get to know the Athletic Trainers at your high school. You can find them in the training room and on the sidelines at games and practices helping our high school athletes stay at the top of their game. They can help with injury prevention, immediate injury management and post injury strengthening and support. It is reassuring to know that an experienced health care professional is standing by to help our athletes. Athletes and their parents are encouraged to check in with the athletic trainer at your school.

Missoula Bone & Joint continues to expand our athletic training outreach program to fulfill a need in our community for trained sports medicine personnel at school sporting events. We currently cover 19 high schools, the most of any such program in the state. Our team is made up of Montana-licensed and national board-certified Athletic Trainers.

 

 

 

 

Athletic Trainers provide:

  • Practice, game, and tournament coverage
  • Initial injury evaluation, prevention, rehabilitation
  • Emergency care
  • Free sports screening at Missoula Bone & Joint Physical Therapy with a Physical Therapist or an Athletic Trainer
  • Concussion recognition and referral
  • Appropriate referral and continuity of care through the entire injury/recovery process

Certified athletic trainers (ATCs) are highly qualified, multi-skilled health care professionals who collaborate with physicians. They must earn a degree from an accredited athletic training curriculum and they must be board certified and licensed in the state in which they practice. ATCs may provide services such as injury prevention, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

Certified Athletic Trainers (ATC) are recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA), as well as the National Federation of State High School Association (NFHS) as allied health care professionals. AMA recommends an ATC to be at all schools and sports events.

Missoula Bone & Joint Athletic Training program is managed by Bob Botkin, Sports Medicine Director, PT, LAT and Dustin Burton, Sports Medicine Assistant Manager, LAT. The overseeing physician is Dr. Rob Amrine, MBJ’s primary care sports medicine physician. He is very involved with our athletes and can often be seen on the sideline with our athletic trainers around the community.

When an athlete is injured, the athletic trainer is there to assess the injury and expedite the athlete’s referral to the appropriate healthcare professional. Our athletic trainers also work as physician extenders in the clinic. They assist the physicians with home exercise program education and instruction, pre- and post-op education, and crutch/gait training.

These photos are from a training session that the Missoula Bone & Joint team did prior to this school year.

To learn more you could visit Montana Athletic Training Association website

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