Athletico Physical Therapy wraps up National Athletic Training Month (NATM), which ran through March, by demonstrate gratuity for athletic trainers.
Athletico held fundraising events and public education programs with NATM to increase awareness of the athletic trainer profession and showcase the value its more than 375 athletic trainers add in preventing and treating injuries for a multitude of active individuals.
This year’s NATM theme was, A Safer Approach to Work, Life, and Sport aims to reach individuals and organizations that can help make a difference for athletic trainers when it comes to legislation, employment and public health.
“We want to recognize the vital role athletic trainers play in everyday life,” said Mark Kaufman, president and founder, Athletico Physical Therapy. “From hospitals to corporations to sports fields, these healthcare professionals dedicate their lives to improving the health and wellbeing of society.”
A Safer Approach to Work, Life, and Sport highlights three different types of trainers; The industrial athletic trainer, who uses their ergonomic expertise to improve overall wellbeing and keep employees working at full capacity without injury; the clinical athletic trainer, who works together with a group of health care professionals this trainer can provide rehab and general patient education to aid in a wide variety of activity-limiting ailments; and the sports setting athletic trainer, who aids in helping elite athletes prevent injury, improve physical performance and safe return to play following injury
Athletico Physical Therapy provides orthopedic rehabilitation services to communities, employers and athletes, with over 340 locations throughout nine states.
