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…
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Athletic Trainers Role at Missoula Bone & Joint Clinic
Athletic trainers (AT) are health care professionals typically found on the sidelines of sporting events, ready to take action and provide immediate medical care to athletes that acquire an injury. However, an athletic trainer’s scope reaches far beyond acute care of injuries. ATs in the field can also implement injury prevention tactics, clinically diagnose injuries,…
MBJ Athletic Trainers at MYF in Missoula
MBJ Athletic Trainers at MYF games in Missoula. As an athletic trainer, we are trained to help athletes of all ages and in many settings. At Missoula Bone & Joint (MBJ), our sports medicine outreach team is most often found in the clinic as physician extenders or orthopedic assistants during the day, and at high…
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Safety in Sports
Throughout Western Montana, thousands of kids enjoy the life lessons and health benefits that accompany participation in athletics. With these life lessons come an inherit risk for injury to bones, muscles, and ligaments. The top cause of trips to the emergency room for children 12-17 years of age is due to sports-related injuries (1). Additionally,…
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Sports Medicine Athletic Training in Montana
Athletic training (AT) in the United States began in 1881. The National Athletic Trainers’ Association was formed in 1950 to govern the profession. Many of us growing up did not have access to an Athletic Trainer or understood the importance of this health care profession. We had health care professionals or “team docs” that would…
