Athletic Training Clinic

If you need to be taped before practice or before a game, you can have all your pre-game needs in one place. We can tape injured ankles and wrists in a few moments, helping to secure the injured area, speed up healing time, and decrease the likelihood of a reoccurring injury.

Your body is unique, and so is your injury and recovery process. Your body may react to a sports injury in different ways. If you hurt your knee your hip or ankle may begin working harder or differently in an attempt to keep you moving. Certain injuries require different approaches in order to provide you with relief and recovery you need.

We have ice packs, hot packs, paraffin wax, hot/cold tubs, ultrasound, ice cups, and new Therm X Modality (see below) to keep you moving on your road to recovery.

Cryotherapy is use of cold temperatures to reduce swelling and provide treatment. We have several options involving ice available to reduce swelling and heat.

Hydrotherapy is the use of water in therapy. This is beneficial because water helps to lighten the load on joints while also providing light resistance in moving.

Thermotherapy is the use of warm temperatures to improve blood flow, provide muscle relief, and loosen stiff joints

E-STIM, or electrical muscle stimulation, is a method that stimulates muscles contractions.

When you voluntarily contract a muscle - flexing your bicep, your bicep forms an iconic lump of contracted muscle. As you extend your arm, the muscle flattens out. E-STIM provides an electrical stimulation that makes this process occur in a targeted area many times in a row and very fast.

This process strengthens and repairs tissue, particularly muscles which have become shortened or weakened due to injury or disease. E-STIM can also be used by athletes as a muscle conditioning or recovery tool. Some studies have indicated that E-STIM can be targeted to create contractions in different types of muscles fibers; allowing athletes to train injured or weakened muscles for particular functions and responses.

Therapeutic ultrasound is used primarily for two different reasons.

• Deep heating treatment

Some tendons, muscles, or ligaments are hard to reach with a topical approach. Ultrasound is often used to provide heat deep into the soft tissues of the body. Deep heating decreases pain and increases circulation, which improves the healing process.

• Non-thermal uses

An ultrasound introduces energy into the body, this energy causes microscopic bubbles around your tissues to expand and contract rapidly. This process is called cavitation. It is theorized that the expansion and contraction of these bubbles helps speed cellular processes and improves healing of injured tissue.

The Therm X Modality treatment machine provides cold, heat, contrast, and compression therapy in one session. No more ice packs or heating packs being too hot. With this machine, you can set the temperature and maintain that temperature for the entire session.

Compression floss bands help reduce tissue edema, improve movement and modulate discomfort. It also brings in new blood to the injured area to help bring in new nutrients valuable during the healing process.

RockPods create a suction and vacuum that allows for a decompression effect to take place under the skin. RockPods help improve tissue mobility, enhance movement and modulate discomfort with the use of myofascial cups. We use cupping techniques for rehabilitation and performance applications such as postural cueing, biomechanical pattern assists and to enhance visualization of movement.