University Arts Athletic Trainer

Athletic Trainers are Your Best Choice for Medical Care in a College or University Program

Athletic Trainers (ATs) are leaders and experts in university physical medicine. ATs collaborate with multiple university departments and community medical professionals to maximize the benefit to the students under the AT’s care. ATs adjust their student-patients’ treatment schedules based on academic demands and participate in student educational programming and student life events.

ATs specialize in creative problem solving to help individuals stay as active as possible while combatting an injury. ATs are accustomed to helping performers understand the risks of performing while injured, are highly adaptive in unpredictable situations, and are well-trained for responding to emergencies.

Your Students will Love the Exceptional Value Provided by Your AT

Your performing arts athletic trainer is an expert licensed medical professional who:

Provides injury assessment and treatment for your students, faculty, and staff
Reduces the number of time-loss injuries suffered by your students
Decreases the amount of recovery time needed following an injury
Identifies injury risks inherent in rehearsal and performance and creates exercise programs to lower these risks
Provides body maintenance treatments and conditioning programs that enhance performer aesthetics, ability, and movement mechanics
Enhances your incident response preparedness

Our on-site athletic trainers can help university performing arts programs boost their student recruitment, retention, progression, and graduation numbers while decreasing the number of students who leave the program and abandon their professional dreams due to significant pain or injury.

Show Prospective Students You’re Serious About Performer Wellness

Beyond providing quality hands-on patient-centered care, your AT can foster a healthy and supportive learning environment and instill life-long occupational well-being habits in your students. Through collaboration with university departments and campus services, local medical professionals, and community performing arts organizations, your AT:

Anchors comprehensive multi-disciplinary medical care for your students, faculty, and staff
Enhances your occupational wellness programming and initiatives through teaching classes, hosting round-table discussions, leading workshops, and more
Coordinates innovative inter-disciplinary performing arts medicine and science research

Along with your AT’s considerable knowledge and skills, your program also benefits from a substantial collection of therapeutic equipment and first aid supplies, including:

Treatment table (also called a “massage table”)
Manual therapy cupping set
Trigger point self-treatment tools
Myofascial self-treatment tools (like foam rollers)
Resistance bands
Athletic tape and supplies
Blister prevention and care
First aid supplies
Acute injury and emergency response supplies

Housing an experienced performing arts athletic trainer in your facility helps your program progress and graduate healthy students on time and saves your students from experiencing unnecessary pain, missing rehearsals or performances due to injury, or spending up to several thousand dollars on outside physical medicine care.

Ensure Your Students Receive Consistent Care from an Experienced and Knowledgeable Performing Arts Medicine Professional

Utilizing your own on-site AT substantially improves the efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness of the injury care your students receive. Your athletic trainer:

Helps your students continue to perform safely while recovering from minor musculoskeletal issues
Prevents minor musculoskeletal issues from developing into significant injuries that require time off from rehearsals or performances
Provides immediate, attentive, and consistent injury care for a faster return to full performance
Understands the demands each student faces, leading to better treatment and injury prevention plans

Off-site, volunteer, or community medical professionals may not be up-to-date on the latest advancements in performing arts healthcare, often do not provide emergency medical coverage or acute injury care for performers, and frequently do not understand the physical and psychological nature of the performing arts.

With your own AT working within your department, you significantly reduce your risk of having your performers receive inconsistent, non-specific care that is uninformed about the physical demands facing the performer.

Integrate Your Athletic Trainer into Your Program or Department with Ease

Your on-site athletic trainer and therapy equipment assimilate seamlessly into your school’s facilities, requiring only a private treatment and rehabilitation space with secure storage for your therapy supplies. Don’t have a dedicated medical care space? Don’t worry! Many Performing Arts Athletic Training Facilities are former dressing rooms, small studios, large storage rooms, offices, or costume/set-building workspaces.

While funding is often difficult for university performing arts programs, several university performing arts programs have found success with funding their athletic training program, either in part or in full, through student fees assessed to their performing arts majors.

For guidance while building a new performing arts athletic training program, assistance with expanding your existing program, or advice about renovating your facilities, talk to our friends at Behind the Scenes Medical Consulting.

Utilize an on-site athletic trainer to reduce the number and severity of student injuries; improve your student recruitment, retention, and progression; and help you produce graduates prepared for any occupational wellness issues they may face as professional performers and arts educators.

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